To update water in an aquarium, it is insufficiently simple to merge old and to pour fresh from under the crane. Over time in capacity the special microclimate because of which sharp change the small fishes can ache or die is formed. If you do not want to do much harm that who was so diligently cultivated, at discharge and filling of an aquarium observe a certain sequence of actions.
Instruction
1. If life in an aquarium takes its course, small fishes are not ill and plants do not perish in large numbers, change water of times a week. It is enough to support its hydrochemical indicators at the normal level.
2. The new portion of water needs to be prepared in advance. Calculate how many liters make a third or a quarter of volume of an aquarium. Gather so much liquid from under the crane and leave it to be defended (from 12 hours to 3 days).
3. After this term fill a big can with water from an aquarium. Replace small fishes there for the period of all procedure. Subsequently you will adapt and will be able to clean an aquarium, without mentioning its inhabitants, but for a start it is better to be reinsured.
4. On a sidewall of the dwelling of small fishes note the maximum level of water and that which has to turn out after discharge of a third or a quarter.
5. Lower a siphon in an aquarium and with its help clean a bottom from the remains of food and waste products of fishes. At the same stage it is possible to wipe with special magnetic cleaner the become soiled glasses. Gradually all garbage will settle on a bottom.
6. Use a purchased siphon or self-made. The store device can be a tube with a funnel or the difficult scheme with the pump. In house conditions you can build a siphon from a hose and a funnel, hermetically primotanny to it, from a half of a plastic bottle.
7. During such cleaning you will extort a part of water. If its level in an aquarium did not reach a mark which you gave, merge the remained liters by means of a hose. Insert one its end into an aquarium, and lower the second in the bucket standing nearby. Pour in a portion of otstoyanny water of room temperature and install small fishes into place.
8. In case of emergency (aquarium infection with microorganisms) clear-out can be necessary. It will be necessary to remove all contents from capacity, including stones and plants, to disinfect all decorative elements. Drain water in such situation completely (a hose, any capacity or manually if an aquarium small). Then put an aquarium in a bathtub sideways and by means of a shower carefully wash up walls, without using cleaners. When work is finished, it is possible to fill an aquarium again and to repeat the procedure of its gradual "start".