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#1 chrishaigh82

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Posted 13 April 2017 - 10:51 PM

I've swapped my tropheus from course sand to super fine beach grade sand and am having trouble cleaning the waste from the tank.

 

Biological load the tank is doing well, it is their super dense and heavy vegetarian poop I am struggling with.

 

I have three wave makers keeping things moving however the couple areas that I still get poop settling I can't suck it up with a syphon cleaner as the sand is lighter and finer than the poop so my sand gets pumped out to the sump or the garden leaving a layer of spirilina poop which is probably good enough to feed it to them again if I dried it out.

 

Has any one else struggled with heavy nuggets or light sand that can shed some wisdom.  I can't suck up their poop with out stripping the substrate out.

 

 

 

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Edited by chrishaigh82, 13 April 2017 - 10:58 PM.


#2 chrishaigh82

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Posted 13 April 2017 - 10:57 PM

Fine sand is the bomb, we have three with a mouth full so hopefully they remember their maternal instincts this time round.

 

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#3 hollis

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Posted 20 April 2017 - 12:18 PM

just use the syphon hose  ( 20mm clear ) with out the vacuum chamber and hover about 10mm over the surface of the sand , I do it daily  



#4 chrishaigh82

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Posted 21 April 2017 - 04:40 PM

just use the syphon hose  ( 20mm clear ) with out the vacuum chamber and hover about 10mm over the surface of the sand , I do it daily  

 

Thank you, Im quite glad this is an issue other ppl have found :) Felt like a silly question.







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