Taking Sand Out Of My Tank

[NewbToFish]

I currently have 2 clowns in my tank and I was wondering if there is a way I could switch sand out without creating to much stree to the fish. I have this ugly black and white sand in my tank and I really wanted to put in some nice clean white sand any thoughts?

 

[seffieuk]

I currently have 2 clowns in my tank and I was wondering if there is a way I could switch sand out without creating to much stree to the fish. I have this ugly black and white sand in my tank and I really wanted to put in some nice clean white sand any thoughts?

Set up a holding tank - those stackable boxes are good - get the water to the same sg, temp etc and then catch the clowns, one by one or if you are lucky both together in a pint beer mug, as long as the conditions in the holding tank are the same as your tank just put the clowns straight in - would be very tempted to syphon out some of the water from the tank to do it

Take out your lr and add to the same holding tank, syphon out most of the water in to another or the same holding tank and bingo - easy peasy, get the old sand out - I have found using a new pets food scoop a good way of doing it or a child's plastic spade

The new sand will take a while to settle, but shouldn't be much of a problem - when putting the water back in, use a cereal bowl or the like to syphon the water in to to avoid a massive storm cloud

Seffie x

 

[NewbToFish]

Thanks for the fast reply, luckily I just finished cycling my holding tank. Perfect Thanks again