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[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Seriak

Well if it isn't to remove deitrus (The sand bed should never be vacuumed) Then I am going to try with the old leave it alone method.

To remove detritus, I have a prefilter on my Hagen 802 powerhead and gently turkey baste the sandbed and live rock to get as much detritus into the water column as possible. I call the procedure "storming" as in what a bad day at sea might do to a natural reef. Anyway, once the tank clears, I remove the prefilter, take out the foam and rinse the living heck out of it. You'd be surprised how much crud is exported that way.

As a matter of fact, since our reef is so new and loaded with livestock already, I'm storming the 42 a couple of times a day. The foams come out pretty dirty so I know I'm reducing, though not totally eliminating, the chances of spikes of any kind.

Originally Posted by Seriak

My mineral replacement is very minimal for those three months as all I add back into the system is what is leaked out of the system in the form of salt creep. Very little, but still something. (I actually encourage salt creep)

What mineral replacements do you add back to your tank as your salinity rises? I add just enough RO water, which should have very little trace elements, to bring the salinity back down to what I consider normal which is about 1.025 at 78 F.