The aquarium is not only decoration of an interior, pleasant emotions, beautiful fishes and pleasure from contemplation. This object demands thorough and regular leaving: replacements of water, treatment of fishes, clearings of the filter and glasses, removals of the lowest seaweed and, of course, soil cleaning. To the last as to the most labor-intensive process, it is worth paying special attention. So, how it is correct to clean soil in an aquarium?
It is required to you
- - aquarian siphon,
- - bucket,
- - water.
Instruction
1. The first several weeks after purchase of an aquarium soil should not be stirred. Water in an aquarium fresh, inhabitants only grow roots. However each feeding (and it should be done to once not thicket in day) has to be moderate, that is the fish forage should not remain at the bottom and even to manage to fall to soil.
2. Further it is necessary to clean soil every month because parts of an uneaten forage and waste of activity of inhabitants of an aquarium constantly fall by a bottom. If not to delete them, they can begin to decay. In the course of rotting of a bacterium emit poisonous gas - hydrogen sulfide. It is very easy to define the "soured" soil: you povoroshit it a hand and sniff to the risen bubbles. If there is no smell, everything is all right. If bubbles smell of sour seaweed and rotten eggs - urgently blow soil.
3. For cleaning of soil it is necessary to get a special aquarian siphon - the cylinder funnel which is put on a hose. By means of it it is convenient to blow, that is to clean soil in any aquarium.
4. Soil cleaning process – the same process of replacement of a part of water. Fishes are not required to be otsazhivat. A cylinder funnel on a siphon stick and you stir soil to the basis, the risen grains of sand and pebbles a current extend also the collected waste. Heavy soil quickly falls back by a bottom, without dragging on in a siphon, and here particles of dirt go through a tube to discharge. When water in a tip of a siphon becomes transparent, stick it to the neighboring site of soil. You hold it till several seconds on each 5 cm of a bottom. Yet the drain bucket will not be filled with muddy water on a hose.
5. Add fresh water in an aquarium. The first several hours after cleaning water in an aquarium can be slightly rather turbid. There is nothing terrible in it. Have patience, the suspension will settle on a bottom, and water will accept a usual transparent state.
6. To remove all deposit from strongly polluted soil, stones need to be got completely from an aquarium, previously having replaced fishes in other capacity and having poured out all water. It is very labor-consuming procedure and it is necessary to resort to it not more often than once in 6-12 months. If you got all soil from a bottom, wash out it under a water jet, carefully rinse, without using any detergents. Several times fill in with water and merge it. Soil can be filled up back in an aquarium.