Detritus on sand bed

[ckwhon]

As mentioned above, ways to remove detritus on sand bed??

any sea life eat this ??

or any chemical product to remove this?

[NormanH]

easiest way is to siphon out when doing water change.

[arcanehacker]

easiest way is to siphon out when doing water change.

but it seems almost impossible with grade 0 sand..

[Acanthurus pyroferus]

Place the siphon hose as close as you can...thats why grade "0" sand is not really practical. Slightest movement and your reef tank is snowing....

[KingFish]

Detritus will build up no matter what you do.

Within which can trap phosphates and will be released when disturbed.

Critters & cleanup crew such as cukes, sandstar and even nassarius may help to a certain extent but maintaining good water circulation in your tank to prevent detritus from even building up, is a long term solution.

It'll keep it in the water column, and let the filter floss and protein skimmer pick them up.

[arcanehacker]

Place the siphon hose as close as you can...thats why grade "0" sand is not really practical. Slightest movement and your reef tank is snowing....

no lah.. not so bad.. I'm using grade 0 .. no snow even if my canister flow is at top speed...

[Acanthurus pyroferus]

then how you siphon out your detritus? Surely some sand kenna suck up when doing water changing....unless sand is very compact and nothing can go in and out....

[arcanehacker]

then how you siphon out your detritus? Surely some sand kenna suck up when doing water changing....unless sand is very compact and nothing can go in and out....

cannot lah.. just leave it lor.. they will somehow just dissappear.. sometimes I also leave the shrimp's shells in there..

[Infinitereef]

If you have LR, the worms in the LR will come out at night and eat it. If not get some fighting Conch snail. They are the best in vaccumming your sandbed. Eat diatoms as well.

[Yellowbelly]

You can try blue cheek goby, it been sifting my sand since it came>

it is good as it help to move the detritus into the surface to be filtered off

[CooL_anakin]

If you have LR, the worms in the LR will come out at night and eat it. If not get some fighting Conch snail. They are the best in vaccumming your sandbed. Eat diatoms as well.

Where to get them??? Rarely see them?

[Golden Tooth]

Juz get lots of Nassarius. See them work.

[ckwhon]

any photo to show the cleanup crews like the nassarius, cukes and sandstar??? would like to have a look so that i can ID them at my LFS....

[Infinitereef]

I don't know about Singapore, my LFS in US got many on sale. It expensive though, I brought US$9.99 for 1. I have 2 in my 46g tank. He is my best helper.

[CooL_anakin]

I don't know about Singapore, my LFS in US got many on sale. It expensive though, I brought US$9.99 for 1. I have 2 in my 46g tank. He is my best helper.

Quite a lot of things we don't have here. We don't have Detrivore kits and i think most of the rare corals and fishes are seldom seen here as often as in US..

[RockyBoy]

Any LFS selling the nassarius snails? Saw some at Chek Jawa.

[CooL_anakin]

I don't think our LFS sells them.. Maybe in the US.

[arcanehacker]

I think I have one really small one in my tank.. some hitchhiker..

[Golden Tooth]

Nassarius. http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12826