fish poop

[skinsfan]

Just wondering if anyone can tell me the best way to get rid of fish poop. I have two clowns and one coral beauty in my 37 and theres poop everywhere. The culprit is my CB. She poops like my dog (Im talking little logs). I only feed about every three days and not a lot, even though they beg like crazy. I have a hob filter an aquac c skimmer and 2 hydor #2's So I have real good flow. When she poops the logs just float and slowly fall to the bottom. I have snails about 8 hermits and the poop just piles up. I try vacuuming the sand but I lose so much sand. I change 7 gallons bi-weekly and my tank looks like crap.

any ideas???

 

[mr. limpid]

Are sure it poo, if its brown and kinda puffy looking then its detritus which is a buy product of your bacteria. Detrius is not harmful just looks bad. Two ways to get rid of detritus (also for the poo) I used a baby eye droper a suck it out or get nassrius snail they will eat detritus. Hermit crabs will eat anything prob clean up the poo too.

 

[perfectdark]

there are also small worms that live in your system they funnel out areas of your LR that are porous. The mud or what ever it pulls out of these areas it discards them in the form of a light tan tubular object, at first glance it does look like fish waste. Not sure if that is what your seeing?

 

[skinsfan]

no, its fish poop. I watch the coral beauty do it then go on her merry way.

 

[texasmetal]

Add to your cleanup crew.

 

[keebler]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
http:///forum/post/2698364
there are also small worms that live in your system they funnel out areas of your LR that are porous. The mud or what ever it pulls out of these areas it discards them in the form of a light tan tubular object, at first glance it does look like fish waste. Not sure if that is what your seeing?

hang on, pd what are these worms called, you got me interested and a tad confused.

 

[mr_x]

increase flow to help suspend the turds in the water column until they can be removed by your skimmer/mechanical filtration.

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by Keebler
http:///forum/post/2699118
hang on, pd what are these worms called, you got me interested and a tad confused.
not sure of their name, but you can sometimes see them on the sand bed look like little pieces of thread popping up here and there. From what I have been told when they sift through the sand much like an earthworm does what they leave is what I described above.

 

[texasmetal]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
http:///forum/post/2699250
not sure of their name, but you can sometimes see them on the sand bed look like little pieces of thread popping up here and there. From what I have been told when they sift through the sand much like an earthworm does what they leave is what I described above.
"Spaghetti" worms.