clean decor

[1 LARA]

how do you keep decor and plants clean

 

[hippy guy]

Put em in a bucket of tank water, rub em up or scrub em up, and toss em back in, I don't clean mine too often, my plecto gets mad when I move his things

 

[1 LARA]

figured using spickit water would remove essential microbiolifeform

 

[hippy guy]

Yeah, I used to use super hot water till I learned bettwr. I just changed my substrate to sand, and then filter died, I think the biofilm on all my stuff saved my butt lol.. its good stuff

 

[1 LARA]

I was gonna put a sandbox in my tank for my corries and was told not to

 

[1 LARA]

I was looking at aquareum photo competition and wondered how much work cleaning
thats what got me to ???

 

[hippy guy]

Cleaning sand? Its way easy.. since there's no way for poop to fall in the cracks, you just vac it up off the top, takes me less than 5 min. To vac and add water in my tank

 

[1 LARA]

what about all these other fish, will they like

FISH


2 Green Corries
2 Albino Corries
2 Pepper Corries
6 Zebra Danios
6 Neon Tetras
3 Swordtails
4 Platties
4 Rasboras
3 Guppies
1 Silver Mollie
2 Black Mollies​

 

[hippy guy]

Ha you have two posts goin on ur fish and yes sand is wonderful for most any fish..make sure u have a big enough tank though..what size?

 

[1 LARA]

75

 

[1 LARA]

how difficult to change grav to sand

 

[hippy guy]

In a big tank, a bit longer than a 10 gal. Haha. But basically, drain water, add the cleaned sand, wait for water to clear up and presto, u got sand.the sand I used didn't cloud my wter up at att...took me 20 min.

 

[1 LARA]

Id have to get another tank to hold water

 

[1 LARA]

I wuz gonna make a sandbox with a tupperware type container

 

[hippy guy]

You could, but id go all sand or no sand, parts of sand is too diff.

 

[hippy guy]

Id go all sand, its very benificial to your fish, easier for benifitial (sp??) Bacteria to grow in sand, as there's waaay more surface area.. here's my tank 20 min. After I did sand (black) the brand was stoney river, and it was all settled as soon as I put it in... nothing gets kicked up, and my maitenence has droped about 35% or so, bwcause of the new substrate. The brand I used (I will forever use this and only this) is stoney river premium aquarium sand for salt and freshwater tanks.

 

[hippy guy]

Well, I can't use my cameraphone (its a stupid droid phone lol) but it looks amazing (I also used half the amount suggested, as I didn't want substrate more than 1 inch (where it is now, using half the recomended amount)
It did, however, take 48 hours to de-air bubble. It was like, millions of air bubbles under the sand, that the sand was sticking too, but like I said, 48 hours later completley flat, and won't stir up into water column no matter how hard I stir (have to stir up sand unless u get some nerites) to get the nitrite and nitrate bubbles that may be forming down there out of my water...
Anyways long story short...go all sand, white if u wana see just how dirty it is, black if u don't care (black apparently makes fish more calm as well)
Good luck, have fun, be safe

 

[1 LARA]

i heard about something about bubbles in sand tank