Roland Jacques
Premium Member
Detritus accumalation
Ive recently been working on a tank that seem to have fairly good flow/current. The funny thing is that the detritus seem to be sticking to the rocks. allmost like theirs some kind of mucus making it bind together . I think it can stand some more flow but ive seen lots of tanks with less flow that dont have this problem.
If i turn off the pumps and stir up the sand a little (by cleaning the front glass with a magnit) the detritus rises and kind of binds together. It very wierd looking, it kind of stays suspended in the water and binds into space lugys/snot clumps. Then if i turn on the pumps it tend to stick to the rocks.
220 Gallon reef Iwaki 55 for the sump, chiller,uv returnig to the tank is the all the flow it has. . It has cource sand lightly stocked few mushrooms and some polyps . I'm not sure if this has any thing to do with it but i did find out that they feeding those "gum drops" frozen food. Im thinking maybe it a type of clear cynobacter I dont no im just grasping at straws here.
anyway i just looking for any ideas as to what causes this and how to minimize it.
Ive recently been working on a tank that seem to have fairly good flow/current. The funny thing is that the detritus seem to be sticking to the rocks. allmost like theirs some kind of mucus making it bind together . I think it can stand some more flow but ive seen lots of tanks with less flow that dont have this problem.
If i turn off the pumps and stir up the sand a little (by cleaning the front glass with a magnit) the detritus rises and kind of binds together. It very wierd looking, it kind of stays suspended in the water and binds into space lugys/snot clumps. Then if i turn on the pumps it tend to stick to the rocks.
220 Gallon reef Iwaki 55 for the sump, chiller,uv returnig to the tank is the all the flow it has. . It has cource sand lightly stocked few mushrooms and some polyps . I'm not sure if this has any thing to do with it but i did find out that they feeding those "gum drops" frozen food. Im thinking maybe it a type of clear cynobacter I dont no im just grasping at straws here.
anyway i just looking for any ideas as to what causes this and how to minimize it.
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