25g Mid-Week Detritus Export Video

[Beverly]

The subject came up in other threads about how much detritus can be removed from a BB tank. Here's a video made this morning of my 25g Mid-Week Detritus Export regime. Please note, there aren't any fish or inverts in this tank - except for the inverts that hitch hiked in on the LR. Seeing how dirty the water gets mid-week and during weekly maintenance, I'm so glad to have a BB tank

[sumpfinfishe]

Hey Bev do you do house calls

[jon.smolders]

I have a 60 gallon bare bottom tank with two fish... my foxface makes a big mess. I usually stick a filtersock in the sump which filters anything that goes down the overflow, then use a tube to target siphon detris out and into the sock. Then I remove the sock and clean it out. Works good, but it would be nice to find an easier way.

[MarkoD]

Why not just use a clean up crew?

[RuGlu6]

I use the same technique but let my two skimmers do the dirty work.
That leads to more frequent skimmer cup cleaning but hey i need to do it anyway.
To make this work a lot of internal water flow is a must to keep particles suspended.
i doubt that any clean up crew will go for the dirt that has no nutritional value.
Filter feeders and cucumbers will, to a degree but they also generate waste so it a vicious circle the more life we put inside the more waste it will generate even is we call it "Clean up crew"

[Acipenser]

Or have the powerheads aimed to suspend the detrius in the water column and get a hob skimmer or your hob filter to remove them ?

You beat me too it !

[RuGlu6]

Originally Posted by Acipenser

Or have the powerheads aimed to suspend the detrius in the water column and get a hob skimmer or your hob filter to remove them ?

You beat me too it !

Beverly is using HOB

[Beverly]

LOL, Rich!

Marko, besides a few corals that don't get fed, are stomatella snails (lots now, after the spawning event a few months ago), pods and a few small brittle stars - which would all qualify as a clean up crew, wouldn't you say? Man, they leave a mess! I get about this much crud when I do weekly maintanance, too.

Don't you all wonder what's accumulating in your sandbeds?!

[Seriak]

Hey Bev,

Do you rinse in the bucket because you want to use only tank or RO water. I never really went that far when rinsing sponges, but maybe I should have. Would you do the same for socks?

And second thought, maybe you just did it for our benefit to see how dirty they are. Sorry blonde moment

[Beverly]

I use tank water in the bucket to rinse the foams to preserve the nitrfying bacteria in the foams. RO or tapwater would kill the bacteria. I don't use socks, but would probably use the same method for rinsing. I've read that some people have a bunch of socks that they rotate daily and wash, which might be better than simply rinsing them.