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...ed. I have tried floating the lettuce and had some success, but found that pulling them off the glass and gravel work best for me. As for the snails, they are great for getting rid of algae and cleani...
You must have live plants or at least good cooties living in the under gravel filter. Under gravel filtering is my favorite, but it does need regular partial water changes. New aquariums are also some...
 
... using our search function at the top of the page. You can jump start the cycle by adding a cup or two of gravel from the established aquarium.
And that leads to the question about gravel cleaning...
That got posted before I saw any of Angela's comments, so there may be some duplication. If you have gravel in the larger aquarium, put a scoop of it in the new aquarium after you add conditioned...
White spots moving??!! Maybe they are hydra. To clean a tank you will need a gravel vacuum cleaner. Simply syphon waste from the gravel via the vacuum and replace the water with fresh dechlorinated...
When you clean your gravel, you can try cleaning just one third of the gravel every time you do a water change and when you want to change the filter cartridge I would suggest changing it the week you...
...t all the cory or pleco waste is always such a chore.
I don't know... I may personally go back to gravel in my tanks. Except my little bitty angel fry tank.
I just like the undergravel fil...
...n hose that has a large diameter tube on the pickup end. This reduces the suction enough that most of the gravel stays put. It also lets you push the uptake tube into the gravel so it can syphon out e...
Hi thanks for your reply. My PH tester is ok because my tap water has a PH of 7.5. I have a gravel substrate with an underground filter with two power heads also a external filter. The gravel is'...
All of my aquariums have under gravel filters. They work fine if you keep up with the partial water changes, and they cost much less than the built in types. Since under gravel filters require only a ...
...ng it?
It is a hard plastic..... I believe.
Also is there a way to clean the debre from under the under gravel filter with out taking the betta out and dumping the gravel out every time(Full tank cl...
When i gutted the whole tank, I took out all of the old gravel and put clean gravel in, with the except I did a 1/2 water change. I do put aquarium salt in the tank, per the directions on the side of...
...he local fish store near my house told me that these products hardly ever help the cycles. I do have some gravel from a well established aquarium already, although I added this gravel 2 week ago...I d...
dont clean all your gravel at once, at most do half. the gravel houses some of the bacteria john was talking about. i wouldn't be worried about nitrAte being at 1 mine is genrally between 5 and 0...
...ed on forum.
Just wondering tho, how realistic is it when plant care suggests simply pushing plants into gravel bed?
Do they assume the gravel bed has soil base perhaps? Or is it ok/natural for plan...
When you do the weekly, partial water changes, you should clean about half of the gravel. This prevents syphoning out all the good bacteria. If you have a syphon hose with a large diameter pickup end,...
...really a big deal.
So... When you say you cleaned the tank... Like... scrubbed the glass off? and the gravel? As JohnArthur likes to fondly call them... The "Cooties" are in the gravel, ...
When you cleaned the bowl, did you remove all the gravel and decorations? To cope with uneaten food and fish waste, aquariums need to have an active nitrogen cycle. This happens when beneficial bacter...
I once had a power filter that worked through the under gravel filter. It was part of a used aquarium setup. When it wore out, I replaced it with a bubble operated lift tube, and everything worked fin...
...pes so all you see in the aquarium are intake and output pipes. My personal favorite is an old time under-gravel filter. Basically it's a plastic plate with a bunch of little holes, some feet to ...
...you can afford it, Flourite is sold in three colors and even as a black sand. The other versions are like gravel and will mix well with aquarium gravel. Clay based substrates like Flourite will create...
... where both dead. I now have a white fungus growing on the bottom.... please help.
ps i have bought a gravel cleaner and cleaned the gravel. I did about a 50% water change doing this. I was worrie...
...se the flow rate by moving the output end up closer to the aquarium water level. All of my aquariums have gravel substrates, and they get cleaned with a Python setup, which is still a syphon. When syp...
I just spotted white fungus in my 10 gal tank.I did a gravel clean and filter clean with about a 40% water change. My question is should I put Carbon and Ammonia chips back in the filter or wait until...
...than my own food haha) i also added sand today as its beter for him to pick through, i'll remove the gravel in a day or two once there has been a chance for bacteria exchange between the gravel a...
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