Well im turning my 55 gallon into a planted tank and need to remove all my onyx sand to put down my eco complete. Im moving all my fish into a holding tank while i do the change but my question is how would you recommend getting all the old stuff out without draining the water completely?
In my last tank i had gravel and i used a net to scoop up all of the gravel but the real small pieces are still in there and i have no idea how to get them out. They are too heavy for the python to get them but too small for the net to get them.
So this leads me to wonder what exactly can i do with the onyx sand. Some of it is big enough for a net to get but then there is also some fine pieces that i need to devise another approach. If worse comes to worse i can leave alittle bit of the sand on the bottom and just put the eco complete on top but i would like to have it all removed if at all possible.
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In my last tank i had gravel and i used a net to scoop up all of the gravel but the real small pieces are still in there and i have no idea how to get them out. They are too heavy for the python to get them but too small for the net to get them.
So this leads me to wonder what exactly can i do with the onyx sand. Some of it is big enough for a net to get but then there is also some fine pieces that i need to devise another approach. If worse comes to worse i can leave alittle bit of the sand on the bottom and just put the eco complete on top but i would like to have it all removed if at all possible.
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