Every Friday I do 50% wc and glass cleaning on all my tanks. This was pretty mundane until one of my fish decided to try to take my hand off at every wc. Things are much more interesting now.
How often do you guys clean your tank?
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Somewhere between 30%-50% weekly water change with gravel vac on two of my tanks and 50% daily water change on my quarantine tank. Clean the glass whenever necessary. Rinse filter media in tank water once a month.
2-3 35% water changes with raking sand substrate and rinsing all large ornaments with siphoned tank water. I do this because the tank is 180 gallons with 26 small to large (9" fish) and 5 plecos, 3 sailfin and 2 bristlenose.
My bio-load is very heavy and with white sand as substrate you can see every bit of waste in that tank. The tank was also recently set up so its still needs to purge that last like 0.00005ppm of ammonia or maybe its just the huge bio load because its been 2 months and i still can't get the ammonia tester to turn completly bright yellow, always a tinge of light green which indicates .25ppm of ammonia on my color chart but its never all the way so its somewhere between 0.0ppm and .20 i believe,
anyway i do a lot of water changes and i do them 5 gallon bucket at a time for a 180 gallon tank, but each 5 gallons is delicately treated and brought to exact aquarium temprature, which may sound like overkill but you should see the fish when i pour the new water in, the bathe under like a water fall and seem to love it.
My bio-load is very heavy and with white sand as substrate you can see every bit of waste in that tank. The tank was also recently set up so its still needs to purge that last like 0.00005ppm of ammonia or maybe its just the huge bio load because its been 2 months and i still can't get the ammonia tester to turn completly bright yellow, always a tinge of light green which indicates .25ppm of ammonia on my color chart but its never all the way so its somewhere between 0.0ppm and .20 i believe,
anyway i do a lot of water changes and i do them 5 gallon bucket at a time for a 180 gallon tank, but each 5 gallons is delicately treated and brought to exact aquarium temprature, which may sound like overkill but you should see the fish when i pour the new water in, the bathe under like a water fall and seem to love it.
I try to do a 50% wc a week while siphoning the crap off the sand. If the tank gets dirty between each change ill do a 10% wc to clean it up. But usually 50% on each of my tanks a week.
