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Do You Vacuum Your Sandbed?

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Do You Vacuum Your Sand Bed?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 36%

  • No

    Votes: 39 64%
  • Total voters
    61
  • Poll closed .
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#4 ·
I vacuum it and also us a turkey baster almost every day and puff the sand with it to create marin snow fo the corals.
 
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#5 ·
you really can't vaccuum the sand bed without sucking up all your sand. But anyways, you still would not want to vaccuum it. A good cleanup crew is a must, I have blue leg hermits, cerith snails, nescarius snails, turbos, and two serpent stars. They do enough for the sand bed that I never have to touch it. Also, stirring up your sand bed would cause a bunch of issues in a reef tank, so I would simply say leave it alone and get a decent clean up crew.

Scott
 
#6 ·
I vacuum my substrate every time I do a water change in my nano. I also use the turkey baster weekly. I gently blow off the live rock with the baster, hit the substrate a little, let the water circulate, siphon/vacuum out the old and then add the new. This has been my routine since day one, and I haven't experienced any problems. The corals seem to appreciate the snow storm.
 
#7 ·
No, never. But then again, its a live DSB and should never be disturbed. Now if it was crushed coral, or a shallow, dead fine grained sand bed, then you really do not have much choice and are pretty much forced to siphon clean it. Most always that is.

Chuck
 
#12 ·
i have a mixed reef tank with a dsb. i would believe that if its never disturbed, that it would clog up. unless you have something that burrows deeply through it. but i also agree that it kills beneficial bacteria. so to compromise it all, i do a partial (30%) cleaning each time i do a water change. just doing a diffrent area each time.
 
#13 ·
If you have vac'd out your sand since the beginning, there should be no problem. The problem happens when the sand becomes a major bio-factor in your tank after a while and then you decide to vac it out of the blue.
 
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