my sand bed in my main tank, stays quite clean, i do have pods, but not many because my goby eats most of them...hehe...from my MH's i do get some brown stuff on it once a day so i have to poke around to get rid of it, the ecosystem itself...works perfectly....i have an inch of mud ...and i use the calurpa (sp) ...its growing quite well...in the ecosystem i have TONS of pods tons and TONS...they get tossed up by my pump into the main tank....but on a high note i honestly wouldn't get rid of my ecosystem...and i would buy another one. Only thing i dose my tank with is purple up..because i want purple corline everywhere
~chris
Good luck
what size tank are you running?
for the ecosystem for everything with pump...etc plan on spending around $1000
but know that it is SOOOOOO worth it...everything in my tank grows soooo well. For example i got a rock with 7 mushrooms on it....with in a month i have 15 on the same rock. so good luck~