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How do I safely scrub algae and gravel vacuum without disturbing a snail in my aquarium?
To clean your aquarium and manage algae without disturbing your snail, you can follow these steps, which are similar to the methods described in the BamaBass videos:
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Scrubbing Algae: Use a scraper to gently remove the algae from the tank walls. As mentioned in the BamaBass video, if you have an acrylic tank, make sure to use a plastic scraper to avoid scratching the surface. For a glass tank, a metal scraper can be used. Be careful around areas where the snail is present, and try to avoid direct contact with it.
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Gravel Vacuuming: When using a gravel vacuum, like the Python hose mentioned in the video, be gentle and move slowly around the tank. Start by vacuuming the areas furthest away from the snail to give it time to retreat if necessary. Avoid poking the vacuum directly into areas where the snail is active or hiding.
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Water Change: Perform your algae cleaning right before a water change, as suggested in the video. This way, any algae stirred up into the water will be removed when you change the water, minimizing the impact on the tank's inhabitants, including your snail.
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Snail Safety: Keep an eye on the snail's location during the cleaning process. If necessary, you can gently relocate the snail to a safe area of the tank using a soft net or by coaxing it onto a piece of decor and moving it temporarily.
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Regular Maintenance: Regular maintenance, as shown in the BamaBass videos, helps prevent excessive algae growth and keeps the environment stable for all aquarium inhabitants, including snails.
Remember to always be gentle and take your time while cleaning to minimize stress on your aquatic pets. If you have any specific concerns about the type of snail or the setup of your aquarium, feel free to provide more details so I can offer more tailored advice.
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Feeding Pet Bass LIVE SHRIMP!! by BamaBass → algae but the trick is staying on top of it cleaning it and getting it out of the tank so we're going to go over a few tips on how to do that and what we do every week to keep our tank clean all right the first tip is to do your algae cleaning right before you do a water change that way when it stirs up and gets in the water that water will be removed and that'll help get rid of it so now a couple of items that you're going to need you can either use something like a magnet this part goes on the inside and then we have a big part on the outside or this is my favorite thing it's a scraper and I'm going to give you a little warning up front if you have an acrylic tank you have to use a plastic scraper if you have a glass tank you can use a metal scraper but these products are linked down in the description below if you want to see it this has an adjustable arm where you can really stretch it out and get those places like back in the back of the tank all right and one other tip is when you're doing your water change stir the gravel up we use this Python hose here and rather than just pulling the water from out of you know the middle of the tank put it down there
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Dog Saves Pet Bass' Life! (Not Clickbait) by BamaBass → tank and look at our algae problem you see we've got algae on these big rocks we've had algae problems that are usually easy to contain in an aquarium but since this is a new aquarium you typically have brown algae that comes in the problem is these rocks are a pain to clean it's much easier when you're cleaning gravel than it is to clean these big rocks because you got to take them out individually and scrub them so we went to the pet store today to get some sand and the woman there recommended that we shouldn't even put sand in because it can cause some issues with turtles eating it as well so I think our plan of attack here is to take out the rocks here in the middle that are underwater and leave these big rocks over here so he still has a good basking area so since the bottom of the tank is clear and I don't want Bowser to feel like he's falling all the time we got this little liner here we can either use blue or black I think we're gonna go with black so we'll have a black base liner on the bottom of the aquarium all right we got the rocks out we're gonna be cleaning the water here in just a minute but we found the best way to clean this filter is using Magic Erasers they weren't wonders on algae on any
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Draining the 300 Gallon Aquarium by BamaBass → particulates out of the tank and that goes out there in our garden and we've cleaned out the tank we're gonna go through and get all this stuff off the bottom of the tank down there in the substrate you can see all the particles in algae anything it's not good we're gonna give it a good clean sweep now this is just our upper tank now we're gonna give you some of our sump tank maintenance tips we're gonna talk about some maintenance for just a minute for those of you who don't know how this works the water overflows out of that drain there down into our sump that's where we filter everything and then it pumps it back up and comes out of that overflow pipe there but I just wanted to show you we've had a lot of luck with this marine pure bio filter media those are blocks down there and we also put these little balls on top of them and we've had such good success with them we just went and purchased more of them so the more that media that's what houses all the good bacteria so we're going to add these additional balls and the goal is to have them up out of the water that way the water will trickle down on them and they won't be submerged so we just talked about the biological media now we're going to talk about the mechanical
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Draining the 300 Gallon Aquarium by BamaBass → have a little experiment here and do a blackout what you do is you take all the wood out you take all the rocks out everything scoop off the substrate get rid of all that algae and so basically it's a bear tank and then you cover it up you black out the whole tank that way no light can get in and sometimes from 48 to 72 hours so two to three days and it should kill off all this algae we're gonna let the bonsai tree sit out in the Sun out of the water and it should get rid of that algae but we want to get it nice and clean before we come in with our new scape so we want to get it looking good like we had it this summer we've cut the co2 off so right now it's all about cleaning this tank up all right before we pull everything out of the tank take note of this we have some Fanning fish in here they fanned out a little bit here and a little bit back there behind the tree interested to see which one of these fish are doing that so I just thought about something we can't take out all the wood without getting rid of Larry the lobsters house you can see them hiding out up under there so we're gonna have to put him in a five-gallon bucket temporarily and also we're gonna go ahead and feed them
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Feeding Pet Bass LIVE SHRIMP!! by BamaBass → and stir your gravel up you can see how this gravel is real black and it's a little bit cleaner versus this it's a little bit Brown that has some algae sitting on top of it so even your substrate down on the bottom needs to be cleaned every time you do a water change and one last thing you can see that the algae has grown on to that plant back there unfortunately the best way to clean plants are done you have to remove them out of the tank and wash them off by hand all right I prefer using the scraper over the magnet that's really easy to do show you really quick how easy it is and chair ups right there in the white like always but it's that simple you just go through with a scraper it's scraped right off and then you do your water change afterwards all right now we're gonna answer some questions from our last tank Tuesday video and we're also going to show you some clips that were sent in to us from some of our subscribers fish tanks all right first question comes from chance yang on average how many minnows do you go through in a week feeding well we try to feed them 10 to 12 minutes a day so on average I'd say around 7,000 minnows for the 300 gallon tank the next question comes from Palmer Palmer I have a
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