can sum 1 give me tips on how to clean my fish tank in half an hour and not 3 hours (lyk how it always takes me..)its just a lot of hard work,but i still do it for my fishes..i was just wondering if there wuz an easier way..

What is 'your way': take all the fish out first? Are they the type of fish where you can safely put your hand in the water?

Ask ADK he might know , he doing the same thing to his fish tank. Don't know when he will be available but soon.

very careful you don't want to make them fish food  LOL

lol....their really cute n adorable,n i do take them out first

i take out a 3rd of the water first ,n then take out the filter,decors,then the gravel.then i  jus throw out the rest of the dirty water,n the i clean the inside part with water and soap n water again,then i jus arrange the stuff back n  put water and all my fishes back in..that takes me 3 hours to do perfectly!!

lol

1. Remove the fish & decorations.

2. Rinse out the filter, not just the bag, and then place it back.

3. Scrub the decorations until most of the algae is gone.

4. Use a gravel cleaner to remove about 1/3 of the water. (minor cloudiness)

5. Add water (conditioned & dechlorinated) equivalent to the one you took out.

6. Place the fish & decorations back in.

For me, it only takes 15-30 minutes.

ADK

wow..thnx!

ohh so your adk huh??cool!

I have a Pond out side which only needs a powerful filter so you don't have to clean it out, on my old pond you had to clean it out, I am thinking on getting a Marine Tank though so these tips might come in handy; the first thing I am going to put in my Marine fish Tank is a Horseshoe crab !

2 ways.

1. Throw the fishes out and wait half an hour. The water should get cleaner(mostly black).
2. Throw in some soap, thootpaste and all stuff for cleaning. The fish eat and the tank gets cleaner. You don't do anything.

 Lol.

how larger is your fish tank? 30 minutes gosh i used to had a big very big fish tank about 2000 liters.......it was more like a pool than a fish tank. 2 meters * 1 meter * 60 cm. tree enormous filters connected to a second smaller fish tank b( fish tank empty of fishes just water), that was my water-clean-system. to do the procedure above, well explained  by ADK, it used to take me one day, a hard day for me and my fishes. more than "170" obviously they were the kind of the very small and peaceful fishes. its nice have a fish tank very relaxing but it demands one or two days a month a hard job to keep it nice!

waiit ...umm..well my fishtank's not all that big,and its not small either....n it still take me 3 hours...i just cleaned it ysterday..n well..............TWO OF MY FISHES DIED BEFORE I COULD EVEN CLEAN THE TANK!

oh no ! we are very sorry to hear that.

i noe..its sad..:(

once i had a japanesse fish (you know that coloured and obese fishes) and when he died his body was absorbed by one of my filters and then he blocked the water access. it was horrible. if there is something worst than see your fishes die its see your fishes die and block the filter to attempt to the other fishes life!

lol.....i know,its really weird having a dead fish get sucked into a filter

and,i used to have a japanese fighter fish myself.....but sadly,it died when my sis accidentally poured  hot water into the bowl wen she wuz cleanin it......:(