25g Mid-Week Detritus Export Video

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Turkey basting gets that crud out from under there where it can be either siphoned out or blasted into the water column for the foams in my HOB to catch and to later be cleaned.

Yes, I looked at your video. But wouldn't a sand bed, with its beneficial bacteria, consume some of that detritus through the nitrogen cycle and go out as skimmate (after the the bio pellets do their job)?

I can see why a deeper sand bed can accumulate N03 and P04, but a thinner one, with good water flow, should help to consume detritus instead. Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?