Jon Fishman
Cleveland Ohio, buy/sell local!
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Is there a “good” system to clean the bare-bottom of my tank?
I have wanted to do this for awhile, but now that my coral inhabitants have increased, I’m done adding fish, and I have a pesky lobster to catch/remove, plus I am considering changing up my powerheads....... Plus I have corals that I have dropped/urchin relocated etc in the back of my tank and under rocks. I want to find a way to suck all the junk from the bottom of my tank.
My Quoyi likes to chomp on rocks and make sand...... well, I don’t like it collecting on the bottom of my tank, but I can never seem to get it with a basic siphon...... I have tried a pump on tubing and it will clog.
As far as a complete reboot on my scape, what is the safest way to do this?
Dropping rocks or scratches is the big concern....... but I want to create more compact islands of rock, and leave some more open areas. Either way, the “goal” doesn’t matter..... what does, is that none of my rock is glued/drilled/etc. I just stack and go.
Some rock has coral that I won’t attempt removing or flat out “can’t” Would fully removing large sections of rock and cleaning the bottom of the tank be the best way to go about this? Should I try to re-scape by just popping off what corals I need to, and just try to re-stack while it is all still in the tank? That doesn’t help me with sucking out all the sand though.
Anyone just “re-scape” while the tank is up and running?
I have wanted to do this for awhile, but now that my coral inhabitants have increased, I’m done adding fish, and I have a pesky lobster to catch/remove, plus I am considering changing up my powerheads....... Plus I have corals that I have dropped/urchin relocated etc in the back of my tank and under rocks. I want to find a way to suck all the junk from the bottom of my tank.
My Quoyi likes to chomp on rocks and make sand...... well, I don’t like it collecting on the bottom of my tank, but I can never seem to get it with a basic siphon...... I have tried a pump on tubing and it will clog.
As far as a complete reboot on my scape, what is the safest way to do this?
Dropping rocks or scratches is the big concern....... but I want to create more compact islands of rock, and leave some more open areas. Either way, the “goal” doesn’t matter..... what does, is that none of my rock is glued/drilled/etc. I just stack and go.
Some rock has coral that I won’t attempt removing or flat out “can’t” Would fully removing large sections of rock and cleaning the bottom of the tank be the best way to go about this? Should I try to re-scape by just popping off what corals I need to, and just try to re-stack while it is all still in the tank? That doesn’t help me with sucking out all the sand though.
Anyone just “re-scape” while the tank is up and running?
