To start, i'll let you guys know that I've read just about every thread Google has to offer on this topic, and i have already started doing my best to deal with the problem but i thought i'd give this a shot. Detritus. Possibly the most annoying thing we have to deal with because there's always that little about that won't go away, you spend an hour fixing your power heads to fix that one dead spot only to create 2 more. So, this is my problem. I have a 75 gallon reef tank, kinda. Tank crashed about a month and a half ago because a Goby i bought, to deal with the detritus, kicked up all my sand, stressed my fish, and then Ich took over. So i ran the tank for month and a half with no fish to kill all the ich spores. BUT, what i didn't realize, was that all that detritus i couldn't see, was slowly contaminating the water. After a couple days of researching what to do, i went out and bought 5 nassarius snails, all the LFS had in stock. Then, tried re-arranging the power heads. I have 1 Koralia 1500, and a WP-25, on opposite sides of the tank blasting at each other to get random water movement. The corals love it! but there's a couple dead spots. 2-4 actually, 1 under each power head and small scattered ones under some of the rocks. Then, after some adjusting, i cut it down to 2. So my question is, what is the best way to deal with the detritus that will start to come back as i start to re-stock? i was thinking maybe 20 or so Nassarius snails, and is there a way to siphon out the detritus without getting sand? i'm using arga-live fiji pink, it's not too fine but not really big. Any ideas?
IN SHORT: Had Detritus, some spots left, got some snails, how do i get rid of the rest?
IN SHORT: Had Detritus, some spots left, got some snails, how do i get rid of the rest?