Hey, please let me know if you vacuum your send bed every month or not? Thanks!
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I do every water change but I’m very curious to see what ppl doHey, please let me know if you vacuum your send bed every month or not? Thanks!
I ended up with a tank die off due to anaerobic bacteria under what looked like generally clean sand because of not vacuuming. Until recently it was always a bit of a pain in the butt because of the long gravel vacuum and how the rubber tube going into the empty five gallon container would somehow spill onto the floor. Then there was the inevitable gravel that I would suck up and have to contend with as I didn’t want to pour gravel down the utility sink.
Someone got me this piece of **** gravel vacuum off of Amazon. It actually works better. I stir the gravel with it a little bit while I vacuum and no gravel shows up in the container…only dirty water. It’s the kind of thing a novice with a ten gallon freshwater would get at the big box pet store, but it f’ing works. Tank is clean and my drain is happy.
Luigi's Aquarium/Fish Tank Siphon and Gravel Cleaner - A Hand Syphon Pump to Drain and Replace Your Water in Minutes!
My girlfriend got into reefing recently and as we all tend to do when we start, she went crazy. That’s also when we now have a frag tank and seahorse tank in addition to the 85 gallon reef. Not to mention the massive pod “infestation”. One of the things she purchased was a piece of crap siphon with a grate on the front that prohibits a bunch of gravel from getting through while letting the gunk get sucked up. It was major cringe when she bought it, but it works and my frag and reef are prestine.I saw this on Amazon and wondered how well it worked. I'm glad you give it a two thumbs up. It's being added to my Amazon list as I write this Haha.
I ended up with a tank die off due to anaerobic bacteria under what looked like generally clean sand because of not vacuuming. Until recently it was always a bit of a pain in the butt because of the long gravel vacuum and how the rubber tube going into the empty five gallon container would somehow spill onto the floor. Then there was the inevitable gravel that I would suck up and have to contend with as I didn’t want to pour gravel down the utility sink.
Someone got me this piece of **** gravel vacuum off of Amazon. It actually works better. I stir the gravel with it a little bit while I vacuum and no gravel shows up in the container…only dirty water. It’s the kind of thing a novice with a ten gallon freshwater would get at the big box pet store, but it f’ing works. Tank is clean and my drain is happy.
Luigi's Aquarium/Fish Tank Siphon and Gravel Cleaner - A Hand Syphon Pump to Drain and Replace Your Water in Minutes!