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Maintenance
To keep a successful fish tank, periodical maintenance is necessary. Every week or two, you must change about 25-30% of the water in the tank to keep the nitrates down (end product of the Nitrogen cycle) and improve water quality. You ought to clean the substrate of waste at the same time you are doing your water change with something like a Python No Spill, or something similar sold at all local fish stores. If you don’t, fish waste builds up and it can be hazardous. When you are filling your tank, you have to add dechlorinator to the water because water companies put chlorine and chloramines in water to sanitize it, but they are toxic to fish. Also, chlorine will kill your good bacteria, which is the last thing you want. A very good, popular dechlorinator is Stress Coat. It works very well and can also help with sick and stressed fish.
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