The cleaning procedure of Goldfish Aquarium

It is not generally recommended to cleanup an aquarium full of goldfish, but sometimes serious spring cleaning is done to do proper care of your goldfish. First of all you need to turn off any electrical power supply installed to avoid any electrical shock. And obviously during the cleaning process you have to arrange some temporary home for your beloved goldfish, to avoid any stress encounter to them in this process. Use a little amount of the same water before cleaning the tank and put it in the temporary home of your lovely goldfish. Then use a plastic container and collect the goldfish. In order to avoid injuries to your beloved goldfish, it is recommended that you must use some net for this purpose, as it is safer to them while shifting to the temporary home.

Removing Accessories Installed for Goldfish:

Now you have to remove all the accessories installed in the aquarium for the goldfish, and wash them out with clean water properly. After that, you have to fill the sink with warm water to soak all the ornaments you have installed in your goldfish tank, and keep them soak until you finish the tank cleaning process. Keep this in your mind that you have to avoid the use of any cleaning product like soap or detergent while cleaning the ornaments, as it may lead your gold fish to some risk.

If your goldfish thank has some aqua plants, you have to dig them out to the safer place i.e. the temporary home is the best place to keep them all, as it will be more convenient to you while cleaning the tank.

Cleaning of the Glass Walls:

For this purpose you can use an algae scrubber available in market, use the algae scrubber to clean the walls & corners of the glass wall of your tank. You may need a little amount of elbow grease to remove the algae, you can also use some razor blade (Remember you have to use plastic blades if you have acrylic tanks) to get rid of additional algae away. Some amount of algae is beneficial, allowing a little amount intact will actually add to the health of the species.

Cleaning of the Gravel:

After uninstalling all the accessories & ornaments, its gravel bottom left, now you have to use some gravel cleaner to pull out all the mess, dirt, waste & the old water of the tank to some other container. It is suggested to go slowly while using gravel cleaner and give up to 2 minutes for an inch approximately, to make sure the quality cleaning. In case you don’t have gravel cleaner, use your hands to remove any dirt remaining.

Cleaning of Tank’s Filter:

Unplug the filters installed in you tank, and put them in to the use water you kept in a container and shake them out twice or trice in that water,  as the filter have some useful bacteria for all you need is few mild shakes & some squeezes to accomplish filter cleaning. As filters are available in many different types and materials, you have to use them for a couple of weeks before replacing so that the amount of useful bacteria reaches its recommended level.

Aquarium water:

Now you can complete the process of changing of the aquarium water in your goldfish tank with tap water and also use some de-chlorinator to remove any chlorine in tank. Now you have to be very keen to ensure the water temperature has returned to the recommended tank temperature. Now you can put back all of your decorative accessories and ornaments your goldfish tank, after that you can then carefully place your goldfish back into the tank. Now your tank cleaning has been done perfectly. Hurray!

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