How Do You Clean A Heavily Planted Fish Tank

• #4

If you lot are heavily stocked then patently expect to have to exercise information technology more than often

Completely hold with @Kalum 's point here and it's 1 that gets majorly overlooked.

One manner to save a lot of hassle is to plan your scape with this in mind if it's your intention to go heavy on stocking.

Have a low expanse in the scape where all the fish and shrimp waste material will naturally fall into and gather. If this area is covered in merely a fine layer of sand it'south economical to siphon the lot out; sand, poop and detritus then replace with fresh sand. This helps prevent whatsoever accumulation of waste product in more than difficult to reach places.

• #xiii

Yep 40-fifty% h2o change fashion more than enough.If u have shrimp they prob will die.Fish are more than ok only even so.

Depends. I certainly do far less changing of water on my depression tech shrimp breeding tank. But that system is minimal fuss and low bioload so anymore is kind of moot. I alter h2o for the opposite result to the killing of shrimp, it easily adds calcium and mangnesium to the water due to the tap h2o qualities where I live. Helps the shrimp with shedding.

The 10 high tech systems I help maintain receive upwardly to 90% water change a calendar week. If maintenance is being performed throughout the week then this may happen more than once a week.

Signal is the amount is arbitrary. We do clean our loftier tech tanks, amongst other things, the water modify helps forbid the circumstance you outlined before:

I dont deep clean either as its messy and time consuming and might release ammonia from substrate into the tank esp if the substrate layer is deep.

The other end of the calibration is what @dw1305 outlined:

I recollect there are probably microbial advantages to non disturbing the substrate, particularly in terms of the circuitous microbial flora that may develop in zones of fluctuating REDOX. Stephan Tanner talks about this in <"Biological filtration">.

I accept <"tank janitors">, and I don't tend to have many fast growing plants (other than floating ones).

Another way of creating a relatively stable surround with a means to support life. Different methods for dealing with a range of setups; depression free energy to high energy. An explanation of the qualities of zones of REDOX would be far improve served by someone with more than noesis on the matter.

How much lower should it be?

Non quite understanding the question. I haven't seen the OP's tank so there isn't actually a comparison or judgement I can make here. Every bit for what I do, the sanded area is literally on the bottom drinking glass of the tank and a few mm's depth. A lot of detritus falls into this surface area and makes removing information technology easier (if that'due south what you want to practice and if it's necessary).

Source: https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/how-often-to-deep-clean-a-planted-tank.59184/

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