Substrate

[damba]

Removed the last of my substrate last night and it was really smelly = anaerobic. Cant believe i let them live over that. They already seem happy, the stress bars are showing less.

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[Skip]

Removed the last of my substrate last night and it was really smelly = anaerobic. Cant believe i let them live over that. They already seem happy, the stress bars are showing less.


amazing.. uh?! :)

[damba]

Worth the mouthful of grit from my rudimentary siphon :cool:

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[Jerry1]

What was your gravel cleaning routine? I've removed gravel from tanks befor and it smelled like... Gravel.

[YSS]

What kind of substrate did you have?

[damba]

Sand. Daily 50 perc wcs. Sand stirred once a week.

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[YSS]

I have mixed substrate. Fine white sand and dark plant growing substrate (forgot which one I bought). I don't vacuum my substrate as I never find anything when I use the syphon trying to get stuff the substrate and I hardly see any poop at all. I have a ton of fish in the tank. I do wonder at times what the heck is going on? I have 4 cannister filters that I clean pretty often and my fx5 gets real dirty real fast. The other three, not so much. I also have a ton of bottom dwellers that sift through at least top layer of the substrate. So I am guessing that my bottom dwellers are basically doing the vaccuming job for me. But I am concerned wondering from time to time where all the waste may be ending up in my tank.

[damba]

Often wondered that myself. Maybe it is just it naturally breaking down into minute particles that get filtered out?

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