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March 23rd, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| how do you maintain a tank like this?!
now how the heck do you gravel vacuum tanks like this?!? | 
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March 24th, 2009
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| | Fish Mentor
| Hmmm.....good question. lol Nice aquascaping though.  | |
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March 24th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| That would make me crazy! I would have to have a spotter to make sure I am getting everything!  | |
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March 24th, 2009
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| | Moderator
| Beautiful tanks. Very carefully | |
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March 24th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| i think you'd just have to go around an in between. or at least, that's what i'd do :P | |
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March 24th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| I dunno, but it would take forever! | |
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March 24th, 2009
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| | Fish Bum
| I am about to run into the same problem. I had nothing to do while cycling so I putzed around and got everything just right, according to my eye anyway. It was sort of like building a ship in a bottle but will sure be a mess after the initial vacuum unless I am very careful or not too thorough.
Last edited by wabash; March 24th, 2009 at 05:31 PM.
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March 24th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| see that's what i have goin on. some planted areas that i put some bigger rocks in, and it's a pain to vac around. but i guess it doesn't really matter cause the stuff i miss will become plant food. alas, the troubles we put ourselves thru.
nice tank btw, wabash  | |
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March 25th, 2009
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| | Fish Bum
| Thanks Hawk, there are some Black Neon Tetras in there somewhere. | |
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March 25th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| I suppose one way (though this would be sort of stressful on the fish) would be to swirl the vac around and around. This excess water movement would pull most of the particles that haven't embedded themselves into the gravel up into the water where you'd be able to suck most of them up. | |
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March 25th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| I think a lot of people with heavily planted tanks don't really vacuum all that much. Wouldn't the plants eventually use what gathers at the bottom anyways, if there are enough plants? If you must though, I think you could treat it like a sand tank, and swirl a little. | |
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March 25th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| What's that awesome thing in the middle? Looks like a river or something, did you just not put gravel in it? (*refers to pic1*) | |
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March 25th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| i think it is white gravel. they aren't my tanks. i just found them while lookin up marismo balls and thought they were awesome, but how would you clean it?
and i've heard not vacuuming can make nasty pockets of ammonia and whatnot form down in the undisturbed gravel. | |
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March 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| you can still disturb the gravel without vaccuming. Just take a straw or other aquarium safe tube/poking thing. And stick it into the gravel similar to the way you do to keep sand from compacting. | |
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March 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| yup yup
or you pick up some MTS (malaysian trumpet snails!) | |
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March 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| do MTS bury though gravel?
In gravel tanks I only ever see them sitting on top  | |
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March 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| ohhh maybe you're right... I never thought about that. I don't have any gravel tanks (or any mts, come to think about it) | |
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March 26th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| 
no worries. I suppose if you had a really fine grain gravel they may work. <shrug> | |
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