The aquarium is the complex system demanding creation of certain conditions: lighting, temperature, saturation by oxygen, water filtrations. For maintenance of necessary biological balance the aquarium needs to be kept clean. Not to do harm to underwater inhabitants, it is necessary to follow some rules when cleaning.
It is required to you
- - aquarian scrapers for glasses;
- - magnetic scraper;
- - sponge;
- - glove (mitten) for a body;
- - hose with a tip and pear;
- - toothbrush;
- - brush;
- - baking soda;
- - the bleaching means "Whiteness".
Instruction
1. Choose a way of cleaning a stekolzeleny raid on walls gives an untidy look to an aquarium and prevents to watch small fishes. Fouling of seaweed is formed in 1-2 weeks depending on location of an aquarium. Purify glasses in process of their pollution. Use for this purpose an aquarian scraper, a clean scouring sponge, a glove or a magnetic scraper. The choice of these devices depends on density of a raid. For example, small impregnations of greens easily are removed by means of a sponge. It is very convenient to remove a raid aquarium corners if to put on a special glove a hand. At considerable overgrowing of walls use an aquarian scraper. If you do not want to wet hands, use a magnetic scraper - it is the optimum device for removal of seaweed.
2. Clean a dnon day of an aquarium sewage which leads to water damage collect - it is waste products of fishes and snails, the forage remains, the decaying fragments of plants. Remove them by means of a siphon – a rubber or plastic hose with a tip on the one hand and pear with another. Collect a garbage, carefully bypassing plants. If it is a lot of dirt, slightly press on soil to remove old savings between stones. Wait for subsidence of dregs and repeat the procedure.
3. Clean filtrmyt it follows in process of contamination. If you noticed changes in water pumping, it is necessary to exempt sponges from the dirt which accumulated in them. Get fillers and wash out their large number waters, without applying detergents. For restoration of a free channel of water clean a filter nozzle from slime by means of a toothbrush. Take it 2-3 minutes under a strong stream of cold water – so you remove the remained films.
4. Clean dekoratsiiv an aquarium not only walls and a bottom become soiled, but also scenery darken. For appeal of the underwater world use various objects: stones, corals, ceramics, snags, plastic plants. Work on their cleaning depends on material of scenery and extent of pollution. On objects from plastic and not burned clay wipe a green raid a rigid sponge. The turned black snag can return original form if to clean it gruel from baking soda. For this purpose get it from water and sprinkle with a large amount of powder. Half an hour later purify white gruel from a surface by means of a rigid brush and carefully wash out a snag. It is possible to remove the accrued seaweed by means of the bleaching means. Place the turned black stones, corals, ceramics in solution (1 part of "Whiteness": 10 parts of water) the bleaching means for 1-2 hours. After that not less than an hour wash out scenery in flowing water before full elimination of a smell.
5. Change vodupr to purification of soil together with dirt a part of water was merged. If in an aquarium there are living plants, examine them and remove yellow stalks. Add otstoyanny water, without forgetting that the fresh portion should not exceed 15-20% of the total amount of an aquarium.