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balychar

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I have a 300 gallon tank with a hystrix, peacock bass, two royal plecos and two green terrors. I am having a problem with waste on the bottom of the tank. I have a 55 gallon sump filter and two large power heads with canister filters on them. is there a filter for the bottom I can get? or any ideas would be great. I clean the tank once a week.
 
You need a closed loop system with intakes close to your substrate or a good canister with an intake that sits low enough.
 
rays, and peacock bass put out a lot of waste too so idk if you can point a finger at one fish in particular
 
Royal plecos will
Literally poop out sawdust. It's very dense too so it's not as easily moved like regular poop. Just my experience with them. And also the simple fact that plecos and rays don't always work out. Plecos love to sick on the smooth flat surface of the rays' disk.


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^You could put one of these in your tank to cleanup after the plecos^

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strollo22 said:
Royal plecos will literally poop out sawdust. It's very dense too so it's not as easily moved like regular poop. Just my experience with them.
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I've found the opposite, the "sawdust" is easily stirred up and fairly fine, though it can clump together over time. They certainly are messy fish, my four around 6-7" produce crazy amounts of sawdust/crap, or bright orange "string" if I feed them pumpkin of sweet potato over night!

I think in the OPs case the powerheads need to be redirected to prevent the waste from accumulating on the bottom of the tank, although without knowing the brand/model/flow of the powerheads and return pump from the sump it is hard to say if there is enough turn over.
 
My experience is from when I first started keeping fish and wouldn't vacuum the substrate as much as needed, or ever lol. So your point could very well be valid regarding the clumping of it.


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