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kira

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Hey guys,
Just a quick question, I have just changed my substrate from river rock to sand, and I want to know how to clean the sand after my axies have eaten and that? I used to use a gravel syphon for the river rock and I tried to used it to clean the sand but I found that it sucked up alot of the sand and not much of the other yucky stuff on the bottom of the tank!

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This works best for me - I used to take out my axolotl, then I would ruff up the sand so the yucky parts would be in the body of the water, then I get a siphon and suck up any visible yuckies and scoop up smaller ones with a brine shrimp net. I clean out my filter and run it for about half an hour and then put my axolotl back in.
 
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Hi kira
One way to stop too much sand going up the vac is to attatch some dowel ( small round wood ) to the vac and have it stick out about 5 cm past the end . Stir up the sand a bit with the dowel and any loose particals should be picked up by the vac .
Hope this helps
 
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