The.WishMaster
New Member
Hello Experts,
I have been running a planted tank since over a year now. I started this hobby a year ago. My tank is really established and community fishes are thriving. My tank is 100cm x 40cm x 50cm (180Liters). It is heavily planted and has a really thick layer of various substrates (gravel+crushed lava rock+ aqua soil + white sand). Since i was a beginner, I did a big mistake which was to not put aqua soil in mesh bags and therefore no matter how hard I clean / try the aqua soil comes to the top and makes the tank look really untidy. Also the white sand that I chose turned out to be not fully natural (someone at a fish shop gave me bad advise) and I would like to get rid of it and replace it with natural sand or just gravel.
I would like to rescape the whole tank without killing most of the beneficial bacteria. Ideally I would want to siphon off the sand + aqua soil and replace it with aqua soil in mesh bags covered with natural sand/gravel and then do the hard scaping with plants etc.
I also dont have a secondary tank to house the fishes while I do this.
So my question is, how can I quickly re-scape the tank without killing the bacteria (In filters and hardscape) and keeping the fishes alive?
I do have a big bucket and a big styrofoam container as well which doesn't leak.
Fishes I have are:
My brain is struggling to think on how can I achieve it within a day. All ideas and experience sharing is welcome.
Attaching a picture of 6 months ago for reference. The white is not mostly covered with aqua soil and the plants have taken over the tank in a nice way.
All help is appreciated!
I have been running a planted tank since over a year now. I started this hobby a year ago. My tank is really established and community fishes are thriving. My tank is 100cm x 40cm x 50cm (180Liters). It is heavily planted and has a really thick layer of various substrates (gravel+crushed lava rock+ aqua soil + white sand). Since i was a beginner, I did a big mistake which was to not put aqua soil in mesh bags and therefore no matter how hard I clean / try the aqua soil comes to the top and makes the tank look really untidy. Also the white sand that I chose turned out to be not fully natural (someone at a fish shop gave me bad advise) and I would like to get rid of it and replace it with natural sand or just gravel.
I would like to rescape the whole tank without killing most of the beneficial bacteria. Ideally I would want to siphon off the sand + aqua soil and replace it with aqua soil in mesh bags covered with natural sand/gravel and then do the hard scaping with plants etc.
I also dont have a secondary tank to house the fishes while I do this.
So my question is, how can I quickly re-scape the tank without killing the bacteria (In filters and hardscape) and keeping the fishes alive?
I do have a big bucket and a big styrofoam container as well which doesn't leak.
Fishes I have are:
- Pair of diamond gouramis
- honey gouramis
- golden blue rams
- a lot of neon and cardinal tetras
- guppies
- zebra danios
- 2x plecos
- Some Amano shrimps
My brain is struggling to think on how can I achieve it within a day. All ideas and experience sharing is welcome.
Attaching a picture of 6 months ago for reference. The white is not mostly covered with aqua soil and the plants have taken over the tank in a nice way.
All help is appreciated!