Best option for cleaning bare bottom aquarium?

[Chris918]

Hello,

In your experience, what is the best option for cleaning and removing small particles/detritus from a bare bottom reef tank? This is my first bare bottom tank and it is very obvious that my syphon hose won't pick up anything.

Thank you!

 

[RobZilla04]

Better flow directed at the bottom. That will assist in keeping the detritus fully suspended as is the intent of the bare bottom.

 

[kevin21]

I take a turkey baster and blow the rocks and bottom before a water change. Then just siphon out as much as a I can from the water column. I will also take the siphon and run it along the bare bottom and try to get into any tough spaces to grab any trapped detritus

 

[oceanfan913]

Siphon and good waterflow. If doing things over, I would not have gone with fine sand but either bigger crushed coral or bare bottom.

 

[thegrun]

...cover the bottom with sand...

 

[hersheyb]

...cover the bottom with sand...

works for me lol

 

[Cancun]

...cover the bottom with sand...

LOL....me three!

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[mitch91175]

Haha, me four!! Don't get the bare bottom idea myself.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Me 5. Did bare bottom for a while and hated it, back to sand. You needs lots of flow in the tank, lots of flow across the bottom and run filter socks to remove the waste.