Maintaining your aquarium

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Premix 5G of waterchange water.
Drain old into a 5G (easy to match/reparable the same volume.) I suck out the old water with a water change tube and hover over rock or dirty parts of the sand bed.

My next build will be automated water changes to make it easy.

Skimmer gets dumped down the bathroom sink and rinsed out.. Wipe out the cup with paper towel and re-install.

For re-filling ATO i added a 50' hose to my RO/DI unit so i can just walk the line over to the thank rather than hulling water.

For cleaning the Glass a Flipper cleaner works wonders.. I hardly ever use the scrubber and just razor it to perfection.


that about sumps up my every week or two maintenance.