Your Cleaning Kit

[morgan]

1 12" Common Pleco
1 Golden Apple Snail
5 Buckets
2 Towels
1 Cloth (for wiping water marks off glass)
1 Old dog blanket (for laying siphon down on so as not to drip on carpet)
3 Siphons of varying sizes
1 Spare head from a battery operated toothbrush (gets in the outlet tube and magnet thingy in motor)
1 Battery operated gravel vac (for getting out the Pleco poo in between water changes)
1 Old spoon for crushing snails
1 Jug (for putting water back in)

That's it! I have put the explanations in in case it helps.

PS Forget to mention the steps, tank is 2ft deep and I am short!

 

[BigIan]

my tanks 2 foot deep and i have trouble reching the bottom and i`m 6`4"

 

[morgan]

I'm 5ft 3 (just) so I really need the steps!

 

[Tolak]

Half a dozen ¾” i.d. hoses of various lengths with a foot of pvc pipe on the end for draining & vaccing bare bottom tanks.

35 gallon garbage can with a 1300gph pump to drain tanks into.

50 feet of garden hose attached to the 1300 gph pump draining into the sump pump.

Switch box with 2 outlets to turn the pump on & off with my foot.

A few feet of ½” i.d. hose per tank for isolation purposes in case of some disease, or for changes on an individual tank for various reasons.

One large gravel vac.

One small clamp per tank for holding draining & filling hoses.

A few large clamps for holding fill hose to rack frames.

Utility sink with a Y valve with shutoffs on each end.

50 feet of water safe hose on one side of the Y valve for filling tanks, 3 feet on the other.

Shutoff with 3 more feet of hose on the fill end.

10 five gallon buckets.

Various smaller hoses for vaccing fry tanks.

Various small sponges for the end of the fry hoses.

Various cups & containers, some with holes drilled in them, for filter maintenance, transfer of fish, etc.

Turkey baster.

Large medicine dropper.

Eyedropper.

Coffee filters.

Paper towels.

A few old towels.

A sturdy mop.

Bleach.

 

[lljdma06]

1 Utility pail (5g)
1 Utility pail (2.5g)
Gravel vacumn with syphon tube
scrubbing sponge
Paper towels
Stainless steel scissors (pruning plants)
Matches (to sterilize the blade before pruning, I use the scissor for other things)
lead plant anchors,
plastic tongs (to get that misplaced leaf)
various nets
measuring spoon for Yeast and such
syringe (to dose ferts)
Tube cleaning brushes
Several small cups for small touches.

 

[dwarfgourami]

four 10 ltr buckets

three toothbrushes (1 per tank)

three gravel vacs (d)

couple of algae scrapers (but I use the toothbrushes more)

set of razor blades

three plastic measuring jugs for putting clean water bag- also for netting fish, and mixing up medicine

old bin liners for covering carpet

stool for putting the bucket on when gravel vac'ing