Maintaining A Tank

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Saltwater Aquarium Cleaning and Maintenance

Keeping up with regular maintenance and aquarium cleaning is essential for the health and longevity of your fish and corals. Maintenance tasks include performing water changes, cleaning filters, testing water quality, and checking equipment. These are all easy to do and can help to keep your aquarium healthy and well-maintained for years to come.

Another key ingredient to maintaining a harmonious environment for all your marine life is using high-quality products. Quantum USA provides industry-leading saltwater aquarium products to help hobbyists of all levels cultivate, maintain and grow a happy, healthy tank. If you are looking to improve the overall health and appearance of your existing tank, switching to Quantum products is a great way to go. Everything we produce at Quantum is of the highest quality. Our state-of-the-art facilities provide our team of chemists with the ability to conduct in-house testing. This enables them to ensure our products consistently meet our high standards, which in turn enables our customers to maintain their tanks perfectly.

Routine Aquarium Cleaning is Essential!

Let’s take a closer look at cleaning and maintaining a saltwater tank. Keeping a regular cleaning schedule is important to keeping a clean and happy saltwater aquarium. While it may seem daunting at first to new hobbyists, it soon becomes a habit, and you’ll breeze through it without a second thought.
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Aquarium cleaning tasks can be broken down into daily tasks, weekly tasks and bi-weekly tasks.

  • Daily tasks

    Remove uneaten food. If you allow uneaten pellets to remain in the tank, they will break down and cause your tank to be cloudy. Additionally, if you are regularly seeing uneaten food, you may be feeding your fish too much and should reduce the amount you feed them. In addition, wiping away salt creep is best done daily; this will protect your power cords from unnecessary erosion.

  • Weekly tasks

    Empty the collection cup on the protein skimmer. Regularly emptying the cup allows the skimmer to work optimally. Additionally, cleaning the glass panes of your tank should be done at the very least once a week. Depending on how quickly the glass is getting dirty, you may need to increase the frequency you are wiping it down.

  • Biweekly-monthly cleaning

    It’s important to replace 25% of your tank's water every month using a siphon. This is also a great time to clean filters, hoses, and pumps before you add the new salt water. Before you start cleaning your tank, mix dechlorinated or reverse osmosis water to the appropriate salinity with marine salt, air it, and heat it to the correct temperature. It's best to do this the day before, to give the salt time to fully dissolve. Vacuuming your tank's substrate is another item that should be on your biweekly-monthly list, as detritus from the substrate can impact the water chemistry.

  • Long-term cleaning

    Every few months, it's a good idea to give your tank a deep clean. To do this, wipe any salt build-up off of the light fixtures, and use white vinegar and a stiff brush to soak items from your aquarium and remove unwanted build-up. Your main focus areas should be the protein skimmer, return pump, thermometer, hoses, heater, biofilter overflow box, and powerhead.
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Aquarium Maintenance

When it comes to saltwater aquarium cleaning and maintenance, there's a lot to keep track of. But once you are in a groove with your tank and marine life, it becomes second nature. And when you partner with Quantum’s industry-leading products, maintaining your tank will be fun and easy!
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Salinity Levels

Quantum Macro Probiotic Salts are carefully formulated to provide saltwater tank enthusiasts with one of the purest and most stable salts in the world. This makes them the perfect solution for maintaining the saline levels in your tank.
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Algae & Nutrient Control

Staying on top of nutrient removal is key to your regular maintenance and aquarium cleaning. Excess nutrients such as nitrate and phosphate will encourage algae growth in your tank. Bad algae can create toxic byproducts that are detrimental to fish and corals—plus, it’s unsightly and detracts from the beautiful environment you have created and established. Quantum has a variety of industry-leading products available to help you keep algae under control in your aquarium.
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Mineral Management

Aragonite enhancement products are a fantastic way to manage minerals in your saltwater aquariums, especially if you have corals! Low aragonite elements can cause your corals to develop with brittle calcite, which leads to lower bone density. Keeping up with Magnesium, Calcium and Alkalinity is key to your tank. Without proper levels of magnesium, calcium and alkalinity will combine and precipitate (i.e. fall) out of solution. As a result, both essential elements become unusable to the corals in the aquarium. Quantum has a series of Aragonite products to provide the required major, minor and trace aragonite elements. Make this aspect of your aquarium maintenance easy with Quantum Aragonite A, B & C!
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Give Your Corals a Boost!

Really bring your corals color to life with bioactive color intensifiers. Your tank will reach new levels of vibrancy when your corals are receiving the necessary elements and biomolecules required for intensifying natural coral color. This also helps build resistance and improve vitality. Boost your tanks' vibrancy with our bioactive color intensifiers.
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Feeding Habits

It’s important to ensure that you are feeding your fish and corals the right amount of food at the right times. Overfeeding can lead to water pollution and can cause harm to your aquarium inhabitants. Make sure to research the specific feeding habits of the species in your aquarium and feed them the appropriate amounts of food.
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Proper Lighting

Proper lighting is essential for a healthy saltwater aquarium. Your aquarium inhabitants will need the right spectrum and intensity of light in order to survive and thrive. Research the lighting needs of the species in your aquarium and be sure to purchase the right lighting fixtures. With the right lighting, your aquarium will stay healthy and vibrant.