Dust clouds

[Gordonious]

When playing around with my turkey baster, after feeding some various types of plankton, I found that if I blasted my rocks with water a good amount of what looked like detritus, brown dusty looking crap basically shooting out of many different holes. Just by pushing water onto a single rock I could fill my tank with dust. Does this mean my tanks circulation is not high enough? Does anyone else see this when the play with their LR?

 

[flinka]

Yes - and then ten minutes later the water is crystal clear and the rocks look great. I "blast" about every other day.

 

[HBtank]

Good stuff to do, will help coraline grow by clearing the rock surface for new patches and even spreading small amounts around the tank, and it can give a free feeding to your filter feeders. It also lets any detrius go into the water column and be skimmed out.

I do it as much as I can. Makes your rocks look nice too

 

[USC-fan]

Yeah i do this just about every week when i do water changed.

 

[Gordonious]

Lol, I did mean to mention my Gorgonian seemed to get excited any time I did it as well. I just wish I was blasting out copepods to, my population is extremely low. :-(