i need some help with the cleaning of my sand????? i just cant get the hang of it 1 bit, its like no matter how hard i try i just cant get the crap up instead of sucking all the sand up???? any ides???????
a bit of advice will be a great help

Remember those electric games that you could get? you had a piece of wire and running from one end of a piece of wood to the other but it was all bent into different shapes and positions. You then had a handle with a metal ring on the end, you then passed the ring over the wire without touching it, if you do it buzzes.

Cleaning sand is a little bit like using one of those games, but obviously a little easier. It just takes practice. Get your siphon going and hover a few inches over any debris, move a little bit closer until the debris starts lifting and then eventually gets dragged into the siphon and then eventually up the hosepipe. Small debris should lift very easily, large debris might mean new putting the siphon a little bit closer to the sand. What type of siphon are you using? What is the diameter? You might find that the smaller the diameter, the stronger the suction. If sand does start going into the siphon, just lift it up straight away and it should fall out.

Just stick with it, you'll soon get the hang of it

well ive been trying to get the hang of it but its so annoying when all the sand goes up the siphon!!! i made summit the other day with a bit of hose pipe and a small nozzle off my battery powered vac and i put that on the end its a little bit easier that way but ofl it was doing my head in waking up in the moprning and there is loads of oscar crap along the bottom of my sand!!!!!! its all i can do is keep trying i suppose isnt it ofl

ashley

well i suppose ofl if i had a good external filter then that will be able to drag most of the solid waste outta mt tank wouldnt it???????

The problem with sand is that you will clean it one day and the next day there is new fish waste on the sand