How to Clean an Aquarium like a Professional

How to clean an aquarium?

How to clean an aquarium? How often is necessary to clean an aquarium? What is important to pay attention to? Is it possible or desirable to own a trained professional to do it? These questions and more answers in the article below.

How to clean an aquarium

Aquarium Cleaning is an important part of maintaining the aquarium. It is recommended to clean tank every three months and sometimes once every two months or even a month if there are many fish slime multiple factors.

Cleaning the aquarium consists of four stages:

1. aquarium glass cleaning

2. pumping sludge from the bottom of the tank

3. The water exchange

4. Clean the filter / filter

5. Clean the propellers of the pumps

Can skilled cleaner cleaning continued for about an hour so it is necessary to allocate more time cleaner begins.

Aquarium glass cleanup
For glass cleanup done by a bilateral magnet, the remainder of the wigs storage tank by Velcro fine (put your hand into the tank and clean the inner glass).
The outer glass is clean with a twig cleaner Windows, it's vital for those libraries won't penetrate the tank!

Pumping sludge (fish feces) from the bottom of the tank between the pebbles

Done by a special vacuum the gravel + built glass of drink flexible tube connected by pumping water into the bucket delicate tube and using a law alembics aquarium water flow will be made into a bucket. This pumping only muck sucked without pebbles.

Important slush pump aquarium and its residents as it lit the substrate, causing the penetration of oxygen. Ventilation substrate causes positive bacteria growing on the pebbles to develop better and multiply.

Actually bacteria biological filter is used to dismantle the existing toxins in water.

Water exchange

Switching is done to pump water slime. It is recommended to replace water up to 30% of the volume of the tank because then fail:

1. keep the temperature uniform

2. Reduce the change in water content (pH, nitrite, nitrate).

 Maintaining temperature and aquarium water is not a drastic change in the composition of fish driven water stress.

Clean the filter

Positive bacteria filter is also important and it will remain there so, if there is one filter aquarium fish tank water cleaning is recommended so as not to kill the bacteria in the filter (tap water contains chlorine and toxins to kill the bacteria if the rinse in tap water).

If there are two or more filters aquarium is recommended to clean the filter each time only one of these cases, the filter can be washed in tap water as the second filter works with bacteria in it.

Thfump - It is recommended to clean water tank and pour the dirty water.

Cleaning pumps

It is advisable to open the pumps and clean their propellers.

After cleaning the aquarium has to check that the systems work.

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