Cleaning Planted Tanks

[livingword26]

I hope to set up a 36 gallon bow tank in the next few weeks. I am going to transfer the fish in my 15 gallon to it, but I want to plant it also. I have seen many beautiful planted tanks, some of them have the substrate completely covered with plants. How do you clean those? doesn't seem like you could vacuum them.

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[webcricket]

If the substrate is totally covered with plants, it's not necessary to vacuum the gravel. The plants will use the mulm. I would just vacuum open areas of substrate and swish the vacuum over any low growing plants to pick up a bit of debris.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

If the substrate is totally covered with plants, it's not necessary to vacuum the gravel. The plants will use the mulm. I would just vacuum open areas of substrate and swish the vacuum over any low growing plants to pick up a bit of debris.

thats what i do.