Cleaning overflow

[reefdummy]

I see a lot of waste on the bottom of my overflow. It is 29 inch down. How often and how do you clean it? Should there are a lot of copopods in there

 

[Kennya]

Welcome to R2R.
Never bothered to clean mine.

 

[Jeffcb]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!

 

[youcallmenny1]

Welcome to the club! I'd suggest a wet/dry shopvac. Shove her down there and let it rip!

 

[vetteguy53081]

I see a lot of waste on the bottom of my overflow. It is 29 inch down. How often and how do you clean it? Should there are a lot of copopods in there

I never clean it- once settled is part of ecosystem of tank. Once disturbed gets into water column causing haziness

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[DE FISH]

Welcome buddy

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Welcome to R2R! You don't need to clean the overflow, but if you want to, siphoning it out would work.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Leave it. The gunk is not a bad thing and, as you've seen, the overflow box can be home to beneficial critters

 

[Sean Clark]

Welcome. I would leave it alone. Consider it a micro sump chamber.

 

[matthew_coletta]

I see a lot of waste on the bottom of my overflow. It is 29 inch down. How often and how do you clean it? Should there are a lot of copopods in there

I never cleaned mine although I suppose you could

 

[bnord]

Home depot makes a great little bucket vac and i try to get back in those corners 1-2X a year - can’t hurt

 

[annablankenheim]

Welcome! I don't clean mine - like others have said, I consider it a little mini sump. That said, if I've had any sort of algae breakout, sometimes I'll just clean off a little bit, but I leave the bottom alone.

 

[reefdummy]

Welcome to the club! I'd suggest a wet/dry shopvac. Shove her down there and let it rip!

But I’ll kill all my sea roaches:

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed.

 

[Fred2482]

Welcome!

 

[Adolfo]

 

[G Santana]

Welcome to R2R

 

[blaxsun]

 

[CoralB]

Welcome!!!