GrullaQuarters
Fish Crazy
Ok, so today was water changing, tank scrubbing day for all of them.....
My boys in the kitchen are in a 1.6 hex tank and a 2.5 glass tank. Both are getting GRUNGY....gross.....and I do w/c on them twice a week. I've been doing a partial change, vacumming gravel....kinda a mini cycle sort of thing....to get the good bacteria in there. I'm thinking now it's SO not worth it for these small tanks. So, by the time I got to my CT in the hex tank, I got him into a cup, and ripped EVERYTHING outta there..........I even took out the u/g filter thing that came with it, and the airstone and tube. I didn't put them back. So, I cleaned EVERYTHING, rinsed gravel well, and put everything back. The tank now looks great again. I figure I'll just start doing that regularly with both tanks. This is the 'norm' isn't it for small tanks?
Question is, how often do I need to do this with both of these....is my twice a week enough? Too much? There is now no water movement in either of them...but I've not had a problem with the 2.5 gallon, which has not had and airstone in it. Will I start having any unforseen problems?
I just saw my w/c's without cleaning the gravel (just a spotty vaccumming) wasn't doing any good.
I'm still pretty new with these guys...got my first one a couple months ago. If you do a full w/c with gravel rinsing and everything, do I need to toss out the idea of having a live plant in them?
Thank you!
My boys in the kitchen are in a 1.6 hex tank and a 2.5 glass tank. Both are getting GRUNGY....gross.....and I do w/c on them twice a week. I've been doing a partial change, vacumming gravel....kinda a mini cycle sort of thing....to get the good bacteria in there. I'm thinking now it's SO not worth it for these small tanks. So, by the time I got to my CT in the hex tank, I got him into a cup, and ripped EVERYTHING outta there..........I even took out the u/g filter thing that came with it, and the airstone and tube. I didn't put them back. So, I cleaned EVERYTHING, rinsed gravel well, and put everything back. The tank now looks great again. I figure I'll just start doing that regularly with both tanks. This is the 'norm' isn't it for small tanks?
Question is, how often do I need to do this with both of these....is my twice a week enough? Too much? There is now no water movement in either of them...but I've not had a problem with the 2.5 gallon, which has not had and airstone in it. Will I start having any unforseen problems?
I just saw my w/c's without cleaning the gravel (just a spotty vaccumming) wasn't doing any good.
I'm still pretty new with these guys...got my first one a couple months ago. If you do a full w/c with gravel rinsing and everything, do I need to toss out the idea of having a live plant in them?
Thank you!