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    remove gravel and sand out the tank without removing the fish?
    210 gallon ~ S/A, C/A build; jaguar, dovii, flowerhorn, gold doviI, 2 red devils, pacu, shovel nose cat
    125 gallon long ~ African cichlids
    10 gallon ~ ghost shrimp breeding (fish treats) haha

  • #2
    wouldn't syphon work for the sand? i syphon out a lot of sand when i do waterchanges in my tank with sand if i leave the syphon too low lol.

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    • #3
      yep its all out now it took a while tho
      210 gallon ~ S/A, C/A build; jaguar, dovii, flowerhorn, gold doviI, 2 red devils, pacu, shovel nose cat
      125 gallon long ~ African cichlids
      10 gallon ~ ghost shrimp breeding (fish treats) haha

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      • #4
        I always remove the rocks & plants first.
        the fish second (try to keep them in a stress free environment)
        and wash the gravel before I remove it from the tank.
        I find that an old dust pan or one of my grandkids toy shovels works best.

        Should be fun to modify a wet/dry vaccum to suck out the muck at the bottome of the tank, but then you'ld still have to clean it before you put it in the next tank.
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        • #5
          a shop vac would do the trick.

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          • #6
            get a 1-1/4" hose and just start a siphon and it will remove it. Run it outside and it drains fast!!
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