Sand

[fishboy77]

I have have a tropical fish tank that has sand in the bottom but when ever i have come to do a water change and get the rubish of the bottom it is sucking up the sand can anyone tell me how to not suck up the sand is there a trick or something towards doing it
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[sam24]

Try bending the end of the tube that is going into the bucket to make the force of the siphon less. Just play around with it a bit.

 

[butterfly_koi]

If you hold the siphon/python (whatever your using) at a certain angle while cleaning up the substrate, it will drop the sand back down to the bottom instead of sucking it up into the bucket.

 

[blert]

Hold the end of the vac an inch or so above the sand. Use a gentle swirling motion to get the waste to float up off of the sand and into the vac.