What are you using as Filter Floss/Pad

[forty]

I use big black 2x4x12" foam blocks, one on top of the other.
The level in my sump varies between 5-8" deep each day from evaporation that my ATO replaces daily.
Over the 17 years my tank has been running the amount of detritus these foam blocks has removed is unbelieveable. If I had to guess I would say it is probably a minimum of 50 pounds and maybe as much as 100 pounds.
The drain from my fuge bypasses these (letting pods go directly to the DT) and I rarely find an amphipod or mini star stuck to them which I pluck and throw in the DT where it is devoured before it reaches the bottom.
People that use no mechanical filtration and never vacuum or stir their sand bed, I can hear your tanks ticking from here.

Ive always been told its not good to stir the sandbed. Get snails that sift thensand or a seastar

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[Valentini89]

Nothing. Just running carbon and biopellet reactors on my 26 gallon.

 

[sirreal63]

Ive always been told its not good to stir the sandbed. Get snails that sift thensand or a seastar

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You have been told wrong. Good job on researching though, this is a seven year old thread.

 

[forty]

You have been told wrong. Good job on researching though, this is a seven year old thread.

So.... How do you stir up your sand bed? Also how often. I have a 40g cube with 40lbs sand it's about 2 inch deep

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[sirreal63]

I use Nassarius snails and a fighting conch, as well as periodic siphoning in hard to get places. Don't use a sand sifting star, they will remove the critters your sand bed needs to process waste and then they die. This will leave you with a depleated sand bed and no star fish. I also would vacuum your entire sand bed all at once, do small portions infrequently so as not to eliminate your critters.

 

[Chillywilly1993]

I use the Blue Ribbon stuff, does the job and I get it cheap if I buy in bulk - https://www.fishtankbank.com/filter-floss/