top 10 maintenance tips for your saltwater aquariums
- Sep 26, 2022
- Anshika Mishra
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Here are the top 10 maintenance tips for your saltwater aquariums:
10. Glass Cleaning
Cleaning your glasses is an essential part of keeping a reef tank. It is an excellent opportunity to check if everything is operating properly and inspect the silicone on your seams.
9. Salinity
Whether checking a freshly mixed batch of saltwater or your reef tank's salinity, it is essential to maintain the proper salinity levels in your tank. Likewise, the livestock we keep in our aquarium depends on the appropriate salinity level.
8. Auto Topoffs
This one piggybacks on our last tip to ensure that we keep the proper salinity levels in our tanks. If you have an auto-top-off acting up or not doing what it is supposed to, you will have a huge problem.
If you have an ATO that is putting in too much or not enough water, you will have constant fluctuations in the tank.
7. Checking Your Salt Creep
A salt creep is an indicator of two things. One, it could be a possible leak that's happening, or it could be that the water is splashing over time, and what ends up happening is the water evaporates, leaving the salt.
To get rid of salt creep, use a damp paper towel and hold it onto the saltwater drag so it loosens up and stays on the paper towel.
However, ensure it doesn't fall in your display tank because it can substantially burn the coral.
6. Cleaning Protein Skimmer
Cleaning your protein skimmer should be a part of your weekly maintenance, and if you are not doing this, it can reduce the lifetime of your protein skimmer, and it also can contribute to some other problems down the road. On a weekly cleaning, take the collection cup off and clean the neck of their protein skimmers, followed by a deep clean every six months.
5. General Instrument Inspection
You must do this daily or at least every week. Following these tips will ensure that a small problem doesn't become a complete tank crash.
4. Cleaning Powerheads
Give your powerheads a quick scrub every month. This will ensure that they are operating correctly and will last a long time.
3. Changing RO/DI Filters
If you are not consistently changing your RO/DI filters, you could be wasting time and money when adding water to your reef tanks.
Plus, you will pay the price if your RO/DI system is not performing as it should.
2. Testing Your Tank
Using test kits regularly will let you know what is going on in your tank before big problems happen. Unfortunately, when reading testing kits, people are strongly opinionated about the best and the most accurate.
But none of it matters if you are not testing your water parameters weekly.
1. Water Change
Conducting a biweekly or monthly water change can do enormous things to keep a successful reef tank. First, it reduces all the things that can build up in the tank and cause problems.
It also replenishes all the good stuff that the tank needs.
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