Ok, so I'm quite frankly sick and tired of discovering hidey-holes that poop creeps into and piles up. There has to be a better way to deal with it than redoing all the rock every other week. So I was wonderin if I could glue my rock to like a sheet of plexiglass or something and just lift the whole thing up 4 inches when I do a water change so I can vacuum under everything in one shot. I know I could glue the rocks to whatever I wanted to (within reason) but the heart of the question is, could it be done with wet rocks and would the glue cure (or whatever proper terminology) under water? And would I be lifting 60 pounds every week or would the water displace some of that weight?
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What I have been told is before you do a water change take one of your power heads and blast the rocks with it and it will blow out all poop which will then be either sucked out with the water change or go into the filter and be removed.
I have never vacuumed my sand I also think its better not to disturb your rocks every week. If your fish are like mine they would be really stressed if I kept disturbing them, I only have to look at them the wrong way and they get stressed
I have never vacuumed my sand I also think its better not to disturb your rocks every week. If your fish are like mine they would be really stressed if I kept disturbing them, I only have to look at them the wrong way and they get stressed
The water would displace some of the weight as long as its in the water but I would reccommend just getting a powerhead that blows the poop away from the rock.
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I'm not sure what the turn over is, I'd have to ask the guy I got the tank from. Lol. I know it's plenty, he's kind of anal like that... I've got them buried in the rock right now to do just that, blow the stuff out but so far, I have not found the sweet spot. I think I may just end up throwing another one in there in the middle. The two I have are in the corners facing each other. I don't know. It's just frustrating. Get everything under control after an ammonia spike and I'm setting myself up for another! *grumbles under breath*
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@cdc: funny that you say that because I just redid my clowns' cave. Before, it was just a pile of rocks on the sand. I made it bigger and actually put effort into making it structurally sound (with the same rocks) and now they want nothing to do with it. Lol. They sleep under the overflow for the filter. The little ******!!!
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I don't think you will ever find a place the perfect place for the power heads (well I haven't lol). Bits of waste will always find a place to settle where you don't want it to, which it why its recommended to blow the rocks off every once in a while.
*sigh* Well at least I know I'm not the only one with that problem. lol. Thanks for the help guys!
Tanks can have different flows, there's laminar which is smooth and circular, and there's turbulent flow which is various indirect flows, try to set up all ur outputs with the same flow, I don't know much about salt or marine but when u achieve a solid non turbulent flow the mechanical filtration will be more efficient and the crap basically gets to the siphon or intake eventually. Flows are not just aquarium water its everything liquid, even a straw has a laminar flow. You will get it right, as long as the output's flow together and don't go against eachother!
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