You can clean the bottom? There are fish that eat the excrements of other fish? How can I keep my aquarium clean, there are always crap running in the middle of the plant.

These are some of the many questions I get asked in emails, or that I read in forums all over the Net
We try to make a minimum of clarity, especially compared to those "poor" cleaner fish.
So "how to clean the bottom of the aquarium?"

This is the typical use of the bell sifonatrice in the aquarium, one of the simplest and most useful accessories for the hobbyist Freshwater fish that eat CACCA to keep clean our aquarium does not exist, or at least would not want to eat it and if it happens accidentally. The so-called "cleaners" are poor, or fish that are algae eaters, and they "use", or turn against algae in the lower parts of the basin, above the gravel, creating a continuous movement even in those areas ... and dirt manages to be sucked from the filter at a higher percentage.

To clean the bottom, the best system is SIPHON, that is, buy a bell / trap made ​​for this purpose and carry out regular water changes with the use of this accessory. In practice, it sucks the water sucking up dirt from the bottom even in the middle of the gravel, that "riflulla" inside the bell but his weight is not sucked out of the water.

You have the bottom covered by many plants? Use also the siphon carefully, but if you have large fish or many small fish is always best to try to use it ... some of their droppings help plant growth, but also means that when too many biological and mechanical filtration will be weighed and you can help at least a little. '

We can also use in a marine aquarium ? do not know ... never heard of, theoretically, but practically it is always advisable to touch the bottom of an aquarium because the sand is "inhabited" by many species, not only bacteria but also of organisms superior species.

In general, a help to keep the bottom clean is not just a regular manual cleaning, but you can make sure that our maintenance is minimal, if we can create that little movement of water around the aquarium, even the front is often more subject to our critical eyes. In this way the water will bring the dirt towards the filter, in which MUST be a mechanical filtration (better before a sponge, then under a thin layer of wool perolon) which will retain more macroscopic particles of dirt.

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