Vacuum/stirring sand bed

[swoons]

I read some people siphon there’s and some people don’t touch there’s at all. I have some excess food on the top of my sand bed and I’m wondering if this will be an issue and what to do with it. I don’t rwally want to siphon it as it takes a lot of my water out as I just did a water change

 

[1WildBill]

What kind of CUC do you have?

 

[swoons]

2 hermit
2 astrea
2 trochus

I was afraid to get more for my first haul.

 

[swoons]

2 hermit
2 astrea
2 trochus

I was afraid to get more for my first haul.

In a 40 gal

 

[Huff747]

You can always siphon with some extra airline tubing. Won’t take out much water and good at getting little bits. If you can find rigid airline you can aim it better.

And maybe a couple nassarius snails as they like left over food.

 

[Dawsokj1988]

If you have a sump, you can strap a filter sock on the end of the hose and put it in your sump. It will allow you to siphon whatever you want without losing any water.