Vacumming crushed coral substrate.

[Lucas9]

Is it ok to vacum crushed coral substrate?

I did it once because the substrate had planty of very tiny particles that would float whenever I scrubbed the windows close to the bottom and moved the substrate with the scrubber. So I vacumed it once, and I noticed many very thin, less than half inch long, red-black-red worms. Are these beneficial?

 

[Pufferpunk]

I vacuume it with a Python every week, in my BW tank.

 

[jwblocal701]

may every week damn i only change water and clean it every month

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yup, FW/BW puffers need 50% weekly water changes & I have 280g worth of those kinds of tanks. Some of my more messy, larger puffers & heavily stocked tanks get 80% weekly partials, especially my discus.

 

[newnano]

dont worry about the worms. you can vacuum the CC. i used to use one of the aquarium vacuums typically for fresh water. i t worked well. or i would blast with a baster to get detritus up in water column and then do my water change

 

[Lucas9]

Ok, thanks, just woried about any possible beneficial worms i might be vacuuming out. I guess it is ok now. Now that i think about it, I cant vacuum the whole surface anyway because of live rock so the worms will eventually migrate anyway.

Thanks.

 

[newnano]

you will be fine. keeping the detritus out of the CC is much more important than losing a few critters. im sure there are a lot more than you can see too

 

[doesheya]

What do you do to get all of that "dust" out of the water?

 

[Lucas9]

Thats exactly why I want to vacuum. to get rid of dust floting in the water whenever CC get stirred.

 

[Teremei]

Well if you got a good skimmer and lots of flow. You won't have to worry about that dust too long. .

 

[Pufferpunk]

In my BW tanks I use 1" of filter floss in my HOB filters to "polish" the water crystal clear.