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Can i vacum my gravel ?


harrison278

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There are MANY variables...guess that's why no one has responded.

Size of tank, size and amount of substrate(crushed coral)

fitration, animals, husbandry habits, feeding....

you see, this is NOT a Yes or No answer.

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I highly recommened you vacum your garavel I do mine once a week they key for me is I allow the dirty water to settle for about ten minutes that is the water I removed during my vaccuming then place it back in the tank only the clean water

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The biggest reasons people crash their tanks are:

 

1) over stocking...

2) over feeding...

3) over cleaning....

 

What are your spec's harrison?

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The difference is the TYPE (and amount) of substrate. I use sand, about 1 inch or so and I stir it up with a chop stick(two put together)

That helps to feed the "filter feeders" and it doesn't pull(suck)out any important stuff (ie. nitro's, pod eggs)

With a large shaped substrate (crushed coral) detritus does settle and "fall" between the cracks.

One would be silly not to vaccum.. just depends on a lot of variables...like I said earlier.

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"....I guess everyone has there way of doing things mine works for me and I guess yours work for you...."

 

Geeezz, thats what I said. X)

 

Low tide...read my signiture, the one in blue.

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Low tide....I got a very cool Torch(check out gallery)....would love to get a pulsing xenia, some polyps maybe a gorgonian, maybe a shroom....

Simple, low maint. stuff....My stock filter and lights won't handle a lot. Even though I have 2 RIO's in the tank, still not a lot of flow.

I would love to find a local nano-reefer that is splitting theirs and work out a deal. No SPS's in this one!!!

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I have pretty cool gorgians purple one , red one and a blue I'm all sps few rare zoos few acans pretty basic stuff

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I have a canister filter that I run maybe once every two weeks or so. With it, I do two things:

 

I take a turkey baster and blow off detritus off of the rocks and into suspension I do the same for the sand.

 

I also use the sand cleaner attachment and 'vaccuum' out the sand. I once read that you shouldn't disturb the sandbed, but I figure that there's enough undisturbed sand behind my tank that I can afford to clean that which is at the front without killing too much of the things that prefer undisturbed stratified sandbeds.

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