Hello all,
My little one was play with the magnet cleaner on the tank last night and by the time I noticed what she was doing, she had stirred up much of the sand that was on the bottom portion of the glass. What I noticed next is that many of the polyps on my acros were extended. Much more so than I have seen them before.
My question is this. Is this a good thing? Should we be occasionally be mixing things up on the bottom to get some of the nutrients and micro-critters into the water column for the corals to have an additional source of food? I wouldn't recommend for anyone to just mix up the whole bottom of the tank but maybe just a little every week or so.
Opinions?
My little one was play with the magnet cleaner on the tank last night and by the time I noticed what she was doing, she had stirred up much of the sand that was on the bottom portion of the glass. What I noticed next is that many of the polyps on my acros were extended. Much more so than I have seen them before.
My question is this. Is this a good thing? Should we be occasionally be mixing things up on the bottom to get some of the nutrients and micro-critters into the water column for the corals to have an additional source of food? I wouldn't recommend for anyone to just mix up the whole bottom of the tank but maybe just a little every week or so.
Opinions?