Water Change Question
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patandlace
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I just vaccuum the rocks with the hose to get the waste and debri out.
1journeyman
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If you are getting a lot of detritus settling on your rocks you may need to increase flow in tank.
1journeyman
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What exactly are you blowing off of your live rock? Sand? Detritus?
aztec reef
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Originally Posted by CAM78
When you change your water do you blow off all the rocks with a turkey baster first then suck up all the floating debris? Thats what I do but wonder if its too stressful on the fish.
i would blow it off first with a turkey baster then suck up the debris off the water. But i wouldn't do it in every waterchange though, you shouln't have much debris unless you have a lot of sandstorms or you don't have enuf flow in the right directions or your clean up crew is low.. just don't do too much blowing-off until your tank gets totally cloudy.
When you change your water do you blow off all the rocks with a turkey baster first then suck up all the floating debris? Thats what I do but wonder if its too stressful on the fish.
i would blow it off first with a turkey baster then suck up the debris off the water. But i wouldn't do it in every waterchange though, you shouln't have much debris unless you have a lot of sandstorms or you don't have enuf flow in the right directions or your clean up crew is low.. just don't do too much blowing-off until your tank gets totally cloudy.
cam78
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Originally Posted by Aztec Reef
i would blow it off first with a turkey baster then suck up the debris off the water. But i wouldn't do it in every waterchange though, you shouln't have much debris unless you have a lot of sandstorms or you don't have enuf flow in the right directions or your clean up crew is low.. just don't do too much blowing-off until your tank gets totally cloudy.
Well my clean up crew consists of a couple of electric blue legs and red crabs. I have a zillion small baby purple snails (all hitch hikers) about 8 large snails, 2 nassarius snails (useless, under sand 24/7 till they smell food) and thats really it. I got rid of he largers hermits because they were getting destructive.
i would blow it off first with a turkey baster then suck up the debris off the water. But i wouldn't do it in every waterchange though, you shouln't have much debris unless you have a lot of sandstorms or you don't have enuf flow in the right directions or your clean up crew is low.. just don't do too much blowing-off until your tank gets totally cloudy.
Well my clean up crew consists of a couple of electric blue legs and red crabs. I have a zillion small baby purple snails (all hitch hikers) about 8 large snails, 2 nassarius snails (useless, under sand 24/7 till they smell food) and thats really it. I got rid of he largers hermits because they were getting destructive.
1journeyman
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Sounds like your powerheads are not creating enough flow. Try re-arranging them. Detritus on your rocks equals nitrate factory.