Does anyone recycle their aquarium water and reuse it for the aquarium. If so, what method do you use? I vacuum the gravel and feel it is such a waste to dump out all that water when all the muck settles on the bottom of the container.
2007-12-01 03:11:04 · 4 answers · asked by kygirl40299 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
It is not just the waste at the bottom that you need to remove by vacuuming the gravel. The real goal is to remove the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate (poop is future ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate). You will almost always have small traces of these compounds in your WATER (not just sitting at the bottom), so adding the water back to the tank would really be doing very little (really, it completely counters your time spent cleaning the tank). Many people use their tank water to water their houseplants because the fish poop is pretty much fertilizer...
Soop Nazi
2007-12-01 11:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put the water into plants! It's the best natural plant food you could give your garden or potted interior plants. We always reuse the fishtank water for our plants (its the green thing to do) and it make your plants/garden happy & blooming. Be careful not to water cacti with this water though, you can drown/kill it.... but most every other plant, tree, shrub will love the fish gunk nutrients.
2007-12-01 11:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by SerendipityBee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont use it in aquariums, but it is very use ful in plants. The waste from the fish acts as a natural fertilizer if u will.
2007-12-01 13:30:35 · answer #3 · answered by Coral Reef Forum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't use it for my aquarium but I use it for my plants...they seem to be growing fasting.
2007-12-01 11:20:40 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋