125g African Cichlid Aquarium - Deep Cleaning / Rescape
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2016
- This week I'm doing a deep cleaning of my 125 gallon African Cichlid aquarium. While I have the rocks out I'm going to change up the hardscape a bit to make more room as the fish grow to their full size.
Apologies for the gratuitous rear-end shots in this video.
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Substrate:
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The rock is from a local landscaping wholesaler and the brand called Carderock.
Tank looks amazing.. I've just started my African cichlid tank
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always enjoy your videos thank you steve
+anthony bull thanks!
a nice deep cleaning and rescape is always sooooo satisfying! tank is looking great brotha
+Anthony's Marine and Malawi thanks!
Wow great looking fish!
Cool music...love African Chilids....fresh water fish that look as good as salt water fish...but more active..nice tank my dude
Simple enough layout 👍
Good stuff Steve! Tanks looks great.
+FloodXL thanks!
Qualified as a good workout for the day... Nice vid man.
+CJ'S AQUARIUMS thanks CJ, much appreciated
loved this vid!! great job
+Delgado E thanks!
Great job Steve.
+NYCity Cichlids thanks Juan
really cool colors of the cichlids
+Jorge Calderon thanks!
Looks awesome! I use battery-powered vacuum to suck out the wastes at hard spots to reach for every other days or fews. It works just fine and look clean most of times. The cichlids are happier.
+KJ Mason I have a battery vac and it works great, but I still do a deep clean like this occasionally to get the stuff that can't be reached.
awesome video man thanks for sharing
+lou9294 thanks Lou!
great video man. Tank looks sweet.
+James King (NJTiger24 Aquariums) thanks!
Awesome Fish & Tanks
Tank looks amazing, is there an update on your Cichlid grow out project?
I just saw this tank in person today! Beautiful tank.
+Marcus Pressley great to meet you man. Hope you enjoy the fish.
+Steve Poland Cichlids they are doing great!
Does the water from the cleaning/vaccuming go in to a sump or is it removed and then replaced?
Looking crisp & clean brother! I've been contemplating redoing my scape to something similar, but love the universal rocks, I'm torn.
+Maximus Aquatics do it man, change is always good
Nice video Steve. The fish are spot on!!
+inventoryking thanks!
+inventoryking thanks!
+inventoryking thanks!
I'm about to get my second ever tank here very soon. I'm getting a 125 gallon, it's bare with no accessories other then gravel. I'll be starting with bare bones which I'm excited about. I currently have a 39 gallon with about 26 different fish and just recently aquired a tiger Oscar.... Hence the need to upgrade. He's a baby right now, my tank is fine for the next month or two, but he'll need more room and less tank mates..... Especially less small ones like my serpae tetras lol
Hey Steve What type of gravel / sand have you used in this video?
Great video! How many Plecos are in this 125? Also, I’m curious... can you talk about your filer inputs & outputs? Looks like they are mid tank vs in the corners. Is there right?
I really love African cichlids and one day I will have them, nice set up by the way. Do you sell fish because I live about an hour away.
looking great
+James Feenan thanks!
tank looks good man.
+MA FishGuy thanks Aaron!
well made video, nice tank
+My View thanks!
nice alot of work
Man I wish it only took me 6 min to clean my tank 😜. Niice vid brotha. 👍
+J Spalding haha me too
hi whats the name of that pump your using that hooks up to the pyhon??
👍🏾 Great video! But, how can that vacuum pick up the waste and not suck up all the substrate?? 🤔
Cool Video!
+dwsdarius thanks!
I would like to have some rocks like that where did you get them thx
How's it going Steve quick question how much safe do you dose for your 40 gallon breeder & 55 gallon tank... Great vid as always and like the new hardscape!!
+RobStealth a bit less than 1/8 tsp. There are dosing instructions on the bottle. I usually err on the side of adding more as opposed to less
What kind of stand do you have here?
Really great video!! How often do you do the deep cleaning in your tank ?
+Adrian Lopez thanks! A couple of times a year
Nice video. Let me ask something, after you fill up again, you just add seachem salt ??? Or you add some prime, stability or another seachem product ???? Thanks.
I add seachem safe before I refill the tank
I am a new cichlid keeper, how are your fish doing with minimal hiding places good, bad, for no different than before
Damn, you removed alot of water. Nice aquarium btw
Hey Steve is that an overflow box or your tank is drilled? If it is a box i will love to know the name brand and gph. Thanks!
Off course your tank is simply amazing!
It's this box:
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👍 👍 👍 great video 👍 👍 👍
+Damian Banach thanks!
Hey when you did the water change. Did you leave your canisters running underneath your aquarium. I have a 125 and was wondering how to do a deep cleaning like that. Do I leave the canisters running or turn them off? And also I'm running a fx6 and a fx4 on mines. When I clean the canisters do I clean one at a time or leave one dirty for the bacteria can can be put back into the aquarium. Then clean the other a few weeks later?
+Barry Trammell I turned them off. You're doing the right thing with the staggering of the cleaning
Steve, how long are your filters off for the whole process? And do you see any spikes in ammonia and/or nitrites from bacteria die off? I'm looking to convert my 150 from a community tank to Africans (peacocks and haps as well). I currently have 4 clown loaches in the tank that I'm planning to keep as well as two bristle nose plecos.
+Ed Scanni the filters were only off for around an hour. The bacteria will stay alive that long. No spikes or ill effects afterward.
Nice video steve I love your tank it's looks decent 👏👏👏👏 you say you do this a few times a year 😂😂 I do this every water change maybe that's why my tank keeps crashing 😱
+PsychedelicBabe this shouldn't cause a tank crash even if you do it with every water change. I lose a small amount of bacteria that live on the rocks but the vast majority live in the filters. Not sure what's causing your problems 🙁
+Steve Poland Cichlids probably because I scrub my filters too 👽 not any more though I've learnt the hard way as usual 😂
Hi. When refilling your tank with water (is it cold or mixed temp) also at what point do you add your water treatment. I have tropical fish with sand any advice plz.
+tabzr I used mix temp and treat the tank right before I start refilling
Steve Poland Cichlids - Thanks Steve much appreciated apologies for the late reply
@@StevePolandAquatics what do you treat the water with?
How often do you do that maintanence?
steve you once mentioned not having bubbles in the tank as it looked unnatural, is there anything you can do to hiding pipes in the tank which I think looks wores
+Mark Copley recently I have started to spray them with black plasti dip and you can hardly see them
What kind of light do you use?
What kind of lights do you have
beautiful tank, i need to do a deep cleaning too,nitrates getting to high
+Todd T definitely a good idea to do it every so often
Hey Steve, love the videos. What is the name of this type of substrate in this aquarium?
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Thanks a bunch!
How much Safe do you put in for a 125? Thanks!
Hi Steve, pls have u ever experienced brown algae problem? I am following Your setups and it always seems perfectly clean!! I have a 6 months old, some 300gal setup and cannot get rid of the brown stuff... tried all the recommended procedures :/
Less light is always the solution in my experience. Bristlenose plecos can help as well but either turning down the brightness of the lighting or running it for as little time as possible each day will make a huge difference.
I read about the brown algae to be micro organisms, actualy reacting opposit- more light makes their life more difficult. Anyway, thanks for the advice! I will definitely try adjusting the lighting! Moreover, I built myself a nitrate reactor using my 3d printer and De*nitrate from seachem ;) will see how that works in couple months...
steve great video.One thing what is the point of the rocks if they are neither caves or shelter?
+Mark Copley they may not provide caves like you would need with mbuna but having them in there to break up the line of sight is still helpful. I also like the way they look :)
They have a zen japanese garden feel
how many peacock cichlids can I fit in a 40 gallon tank?
What kind of sand is that? Is great.. I see it enough white and I like it a lot!!!
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hey Steve I saw that the water level was very low, how much w/c % you did?
+Efrain Garcia probably 60 to 70 percent
Was wondering, what dimensions does your aquarium have? And what gravel do you use?
+jurisyt it's a standard 125. So 72x22x24. My substrate is caribsea African cichlid mix.
Hello. Beautiful tank. I am planning on making a mbuna cichlid tank in the next month or so. My biggest concern is water quality. I do not have filtered water or a place to install one so I will be putting tap water in buckets along with with the appropriate chemicals. But what do I do when I need to do sizeable water changes? I noticed you put the safe directly in the tank. Do you think I can put tap water in the tank along with safe and the fish will be healthy?
Yes, just get a python water changer. No need for buckets
@@StevePolandAquatics thank you for responding. I really appreciate it.
What type of rocks are those?
do I have multiple ranks because u need to take fish out or by cause u just wanted more than one tank. is a 125 more than enough to house them with a 10g as a QT tank?
I have multiple tanks because I like having them. But yeah, you could do a 125 with a 10g for QT depending on how many fish you have.
how much in 1 month u clean substrate?
how to vaccum the sand without sucking them up? when i do most of the sand are siphoned out and its annoying... how do you do it easily?
Maybe you have too much suction.
hey steve, how much safe did u add? 150ga only calls for 1/8 of a teaspoon.
+1deaver that's how much I use. I just pull it in multiple scoops to spread it out over the length of the tank
+Steve Poland Cichlids figured as much, I was using way too much until a few months ago. had the old label
Nice video....how is your breeding program going....will you be doing a update anytime soon.
+leeluu mxo I did a breeding update a couple of weeks ago
Nice video. Congratulation.. 😉 👍 what is name of powder that you put on before feel water back? Regards
Seachem Safe
@@StevePolandAquatics thanks. 😉 👍
Hey, I noticed that you pumped out more than half of the water. Did you refill it with only fresh water or did you put any old one back in?
+khegol you should only ever refill with fresh water
Steve Poland Cichlids Ok, but isn't that danerous for the fish? Big change in water parameters.
+khegol a change in parameters is the point. Lowering the nitrates
I wish I was as tall as you. I'm 5'4 and need to get on a kitchen chair to reach the bottom when I deep clean my 150 cichlid tank :)
+Ami Thomson well a 150 is taller than this 125 so I would have a hard time as well. I'm only 5'8 :)
Ami Thomson I got me a custom cabinet for my 150, and it’s 6ft to the top of the tank... bloody thing is 7 ft with the hood on.. looks mint tho.
I'm 6'3 so I'm gud 😂
What tyoe of filtration you running
hay steve what does your substrate consist of, just sand or mixed
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Thanks for the link
What did you add before you filled your tank and can you add a link of the product thanks.
Nice tank and fishes by the way
Seachem safe
Steve Poland Aquatics thanks
do the Cichlids not beat up the pleco or vise versa? I was told at my local fish store that they would.
+Harrison Wollney bristlenose plecos tend to do ok with cichlids
what substrate to you recommend for malawi cichlids?
+FlowWagon sand
Do you add Seachem Cichlid Trace? Is it necessary sometimes?
+Orlando Felix I do sometimes use trace elements, yes. It's not 100% necessary though
+Steve Poland Cichlids Thanks, I use first time this week with a 50% WC, and every thing change in the 125 gallons tank with 23 Cichlids, hot colors, a little more fighting, and the only couple of dolphins star mating, never see that before. Wire !
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Could you tell me what that goby type fish is that is on the bottom? Thanks
+brick4774 Enantiopus sp. "kilesa"
+Steve Poland Cichlids thank you, amazing tank setup!!
+brick4774 thanks!
what kind of sand do you use?
+jardine terre caribsea African Cichlid mix
Can I use reef lights on my African cichlid tank
You can but I wouldn’t suggest it. Too powerful and you’ll just grow a ton of algae.
how do u manage not to suck up sand when u vacuum it ????
+Greg Da Silva the sand is heavy enough that it falls back down out of the tube unless you leave the tube sitting in one spot for too long
For my taste, I think there are too many rocks. It just looks like an Irish rock divider. I think use less and put them artistically will be better. I like the rock formation after you clean up the tank.
Come back Steve. 😊
Really simple set up could b lil more technical
how much did everthing for this tank cost
I bought everything at different times so I haven't ever added it all up. It was a lot, but not nearly as much as I would have paid if I had bought it new.
what is seachem safe do
Dechlorinator
I thought you couldn't use a dish washing sponge to clean fish tanks
+What Ricers Do What Ricers do has to be the right kind. no additives and scratch free
I see. where did you get those rocks btw.
+What Ricers Do What Ricers do local landscaping place
man I'm having no luck finding rocks like that. all the landscaping companies I call don't sell them as retail.
Hey, I've been having a lot of fish die on me recently, with no signs of disease or injury. I have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10 nitrate, 79 degree F temp (suitable for all of my fish), tons of live plants, no copper or chlorine levels, the conditioner (SeaChem Prime) is not expired, and the filters are well maintained (both the HOB and Canister) in my 55 Gallon Aquarium that's been set up for quite some time now. I've lost 7 fish in total so far, one per day for the last week, and I think, the final resort, is to deep clean the tank and change out the gravel. Of course, I'd keep some gravel so the tank doesn't lose it's cycle, and I'd also save some water to keep the bacteria alive, but I think I need to scrub down the tank, all of the plants and decorations, and change out a majority of the filtration (keep some to keep the tank cycled) and then re-add my fish. This would obviously stress them out, but I feel it would save their lives. Do you think this is a good idea?
+Kazz what kind of fish? Are they showing any signs before dying? It could be aggression.
how many are in there?
+Paris Barksdale not sure man, this was a while ago
OK but what's your recommendation for a 125? How many peacocks and haps is good? 20
+Paris Barksdale depends on a few things. How much filtration? Which specific fish? Some haps gets really big. Just gotta feel it out. There is no perfect number.
+Steve Poland Cichlids is your tank a 125 long? what's the measurements?
Paris Barksdale yes, it was 72 x 18
Overkill, you got rid of majority of the beneficial bacteria. Aquariums should never be deep cleaned like this. At least not all at the same time.
+Truth Teller Putting All Frauds To Shame I have three large canister filters on this tank loaded with bio media. So no, I most certainly didn't get rid of the majority of the bacteria. Maybe it's time to change that username?
+Steve Poland Cichlids LOL wasted!