how often should I clean my 5 gallon fish tank???

Question

I bought it 4 months ago. it looks like there is a lot of the fishes wastes under the gravel. but for a 5 gallon tank how often should i clean it??? I got 4 fish in it to. 2 platys and 2 tetras. when should i clean it.

Answer 1

Just like any other tank, you should keep up with weekly maintenance, which means, you get yourself a gravel vaccuum at your petstore, and do weekly partial waterchanges of 25%, and replace it with conditioned water




Hope that helps
Good luck



EB

Answer 2

Gerbils make good pets 1. It's best to have 2, of the same sex. 2. No they don't have a strong smell 3. Every couple of weeks. I used a thick layer of sawdust (from petshop). Gerbils love to chew stuff up - see 10,, toys. 4. Yes, they come in the normal brown colour and a black variety. 5. No you should not keep males and females together. If you did, they would be mating constantly and having so many babies that you'd be overrun with them. 6. They live for a maximum 3 years. 7. Hamster, guineapig, rodent food. peanuts, sunflower seeds 8. Don't keep them in a cage, keep them in a glass fish tank, the bigger the better 9. Apart from the tank to keep them in, you'll need a water bottle and possibly a dish for their food. 10, Gerbils love to chew. They are shredding machines. To keep them busy you can put empty toilet roll and kitchen paper tubes, cereal boxes etc into their tank. They will demolish those and add the shredded stuff to their bedding. You should know that they also like to dig and make tunnels so the deeper the layer of bedding and shredded stuff, the better for their tunneling. This is also why a tank is better than a cage. However, be aware that they can jump so the tank has to have a mesh cover to stop them jumping out. The mesh - or whatever else you use, has to let air circulate. 11. They sleep in their own nests/tunnels, usually huddled up to each other. 12. Not usually. 13. Yes, handle them frequently, you can hand feed them too. 14. They can. 15. Only if they already have a phobia of rodents 16. Can't think of anything - except that they shouldn't be let loose to run around on the floor unless the room is absolutely escape proof and there are no wires or cables anywhere - they will chew ! 17. You don't have to walk them, they don't smell, they are very entertaining to watch and are cheap to keep. I owned gerbils for years and kept them in a big fish tank - the sawdust didn't spill out all over floor. I used to let them out in the evening when I got home from work and they would have races through the flat (not much furniture). I also had a dog which allowed them to jump all over it. I'd lose then every now and then - they usually ended up behind the fridge under the motor where it was warm. It's fascinating watching them making their tunnels when they had enough stuff to do it in.

Answer 3

Change about 10% of the water once a week. Use a gravel vac to siphon out the water and run it over the top of the gravel to get out the large debre. On every 4th week to a 25% water change and do a deep clean to about 25% of the gravel. Clean the glass as needed and clean the the filter every four weeks but not when you are doing a deep cleaning to the gravel.

PK

Answer 4

i have a 5 gallon myself. and i clean it once every two weeks, or about that. i clean all the plants, and the sides of the tank. i replace the filter, and i shake the gravel around to stir up some of the extra waste. it keeps the water cloudy for a few hours, but the filter catches most of it, and clears it right up! with the help from some Conditioner as well.

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Answer 5

when i had a 10 gallon fish tank with 3 little aggressive sharks in it. I've usually cleaned it once every week or second week depends on how much fish waste is in the tank. no one wants to live in a dirty home.

Answer 6

You should go back to your pet store and check out the aquarium gravel cleaner. It's basically a vaccum that suck up the dirt at the bottom of the gravel and takes out water.

Answer 7

If you have a filter 1 month
If you don't have a filter then every 3-4 weeks

Answer 8

get a gravel vacuum and change 20 to 25% of the water every week.

Answer 9

Thats a lot of fish for such a small tank. I would say a 25% water change every week, with a cleaning every other month.

Answer 10

every 2 times a week and about 10% each time.
this will help with the control of amonia, nitrite and other water chemistry problems.