A question about the no spill python gravel cleaners
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very slowly and gently. Make sure you don't cut the roots with the gravel cleaner. Just jab it slowly around the base of the plant, you will never clean the gravel under it. So just go gently around it
Actually, when you are growing rooted plants, you do not dig into the gravel at all while Pythoning. You just pas the intake tube lightly over the surface of the gravel to get up any surface debris. Mulm in the gravel is providing plant nutrients.
If you are removing a large clump of Crypts after they have been growing and multiplying in place a year or so, then whle they are out you can vacuum out part of the mulm if it seems excessive, but not like in a FO tank.
If you are removing a large clump of Crypts after they have been growing and multiplying in place a year or so, then whle they are out you can vacuum out part of the mulm if it seems excessive, but not like in a FO tank.
I see
but then what is the benefit of cleaning the gravel if it is actually benefiting the plants?
but then what is the benefit of cleaning the gravel if it is actually benefiting the plants?
Some mulm is highly desirable and beneficial. Excessive mulm, like excesses of anything in tanks, is not desirable. As planted tanks can operate almost indefinitely, eventually they will build up too much organic matter in the substrate without periodic partial renewal on sections as the plants are thinned and reset. It keeps the tank on course - avoiding enough organic buildup to avoid anoxic areas in the substrate.
oh my goodness
i just purchased this python thing from big al's online only to realize that it requires one of those big outside faucets and not the sink faucet.
jeez..
i just purchased this python thing from big al's online only to realize that it requires one of those big outside faucets and not the sink faucet.
jeez..
it comes with an adapter that hooks up to your sink, just remove the airater and screw in the brass fiting.
marks69: is the aerator on common sinks that thing with the little threads in it that makes the water that comes out look kind of bubbly and whitish?
yes, there are 2 types of thread, male or female.for one of them you have to take out the rubber washer before screwing in the brass fitting.