If you use a piece of plastic hose I/2 inch by 6 feet or so, It is very
easy to siphon out the sand into a five gallon bucket. With daily changes
of 50 to 75% dead material and sand are soon gone. Planarians can be
removed this way dead or alive.
Your ammonia content is most likely too high for fish now. Water quality
will improve quickly
I removed live bearing snails ,along with the sand, from a well stocked 50
gallon tank this way.
Micky
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From: Ava
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:20 AM
To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AquaticLife] Removing substrate without a cycle crash?
This may be long, sorry!
So, I have a 40 gallon breeder tank with axolotls (aquatic salamanders) in
there. I have sand as a substrate. It's become way too difficult to keep up
with the cleaning, and I've gotten a TON of planaria in there because I
can't keep up with the waste that's harboring in the sand. A lot of axolotl
owners have their tank bare bottomed to avoid this, so I wanted to take my
sand out. However, I'm concerned about my cycle crashing because of it. I
was thinking about going about it this way:
1. Buy a large, shallow container and put my axolotls in there with their
current tank water for temporary housing, and add a screen top.
2. Fill a 5 gallon bucket with current tank water, add filter and aeration,
with as many decorations as I can fit in there, keep filter and air running.
I have a biowheel, I hope this helps.
3. Take as many buckets of water as possible and fill with current tank
water. I'm hoping to save at least half the water with 4 5gallon buckets.
4. Drain the remaining water from tank
5. Use a small shovel and remove sand from tank, use a vacuum or turkey
baster to remove what shovel cannot
6. Take a magnet cleaner and wipe the walls of the tank free of planaria
7. Rinse but NOT scrub decor (there's dead planaria on everything right now)
8. Add old water and new dechlorinated water
9. Add filter/air/decor
10. Test water, add axolotls back into tank
11. Test water daily, and do small water changes daily
Do you think this method will help save my cycle? This tank is filthy and I
can't seem to keep up with it having sand. Any advice is appreciated!
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