A Few Questions

HarlemsYandel · Oct 15, 2014

Well how many people clean their rocks with a tooth brush?...how many of y'all brush thru the sand from time to time and reorganize the rocks?...I'm starting now to pull out the worms is that a good idea their brisle worms I think I spelled that wrong please let me know!

JOKER · Oct 16, 2014

I just blow rocks off with powerhead from time to time. Lots of people clean sand when doing water change also but I never clean my sand I let the critters do that. I also don't remove bristle worms unless they get large.

Waters · Oct 16, 2014

I occasionally blow off the rocks with a turkey baster. I clean the sand bed every week when I do a water change (the parts that I can reach at least).

Reefing Madness · Oct 16, 2014

I blow off my rocks once ina great while. I don't stir up the sand bed at all. Enough small snails will get the hidden stuff for you.

Fieryfrog · Oct 16, 2014

I agree. I blow off the rocks with a turkey baster. But I never touch the sand bed. That is the CuC job.

juggalogentry · Oct 16, 2014

i blow the rocks before a wc but i dont mess with the sand either, and some people actually buy bristles to "turnover" their sand bed

HarlemsYandel · Oct 16, 2014

I have a huge bristle worm that I should of got rid of n thru him back in...so now I'm trying to look for them but I have tiny ones but they mostly hang out in the rocks

but yeah idk if this is a good idea but I use a tooth brush n clean off the rocks I do it lightly just to get off whatever is on it as far as the sand I brush thru it once in a blue...still trying to get the hang of this salt water stuff this is one work I found moving the rocks

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Think he died though

Karen · Oct 16, 2014

I don't clean the sand bed but I do move the rocks every few weeks. I also don't bother cleaning the rocks with a toothbrush or anything like that.

juggalogentry · Oct 17, 2014

as stated if they get big enough, try to fish em out but BE CAREFUL bristle worms can look alot like those fire worm things and the fire ones can sting you something fierce.

this is a fire worm and if you spot anything like this, do not touch it, but take it out!
each of the tiny 'bristles' you see on this guy are like tiny hairs of fiberglass, and extremely painful

SantaMonicaHelp · Oct 17, 2014

thats one scary fire worm :boxing:

juggalogentry · Oct 18, 2014

SantaMonicaHelp said:
thats one scary fire worm :boxing:

haha that boxer emoti tho... made me laugh

RBauer813 · Oct 21, 2014

Turkey Baster before water changes, can also blow lightly on the sand in corners that dont get much flow. But never stir up deeper parts of the sand bed.

SeattleReef · Oct 22, 2014

I used tooth brush on rock. My local public aquarium brushes the rock . Skuba gear and brushes. I've had No negatives doing it. I don't mess with sand.

Av8Bluewater · Oct 22, 2014

I have used Toothbrush but only if something was there like algae/green cyano or something.. but not normally.

Before a water change I turn up the vortechs full blast and go around with powerhead to stir up the detritus.
Sometimes I just powerhead in between water changes.

HarlemsYandel · Oct 22, 2014

Thanks for the help guys

akitareefer · Oct 22, 2014

I like to stir everything up before a water change (turkey baster bare bottom and rocks). If I have some sort of algae breakout i'll use the toothbrush. I've got no problems with a few bristleworms, its the other creepy worms that need to be removed.