Messy tang!

[Dinodanger]

Iknow tangs aren't the cleanest fish but does anyone have there sand bed covered in the waste, do you manually remove it? I have a protein skimmer but that’s not helping

 

[ca1ore]

Protein skimmer only removes dissolved organic and fine particulate waste. Not sure why you’d expect it to remove detritus settling on the sand. Accumulation of detritus is usually a sign of insufficient flow. Tangs are messy, all herbivores are as they are inefficient metabolizers.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Skimmer and corals do this for me. If it is laying on bed, you May have a lack of water flow

 

[nereefpat]

I might have some here and there, but I wouldn't say covered.

What tang, how big is it, and how big is the tank?

 

[Dinodanger]

I might have some here and there, but I wouldn't say covered.

What tang, how big is it, and how big is the tank?

It’s a 3.5inch yellow tang in a 65 gallon and ird say atleast 15 droplets the flow should be decent enough I got 2 gyres 330s at 50%