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The biggest problem with them is that to many of them can create nitrate problems if you dont stay on top of your water changes.
glad someone asked this because i recently have set up my new mbuna tank and planned on moving the rocks i set up, but looks like ill be ok leaving them in place for awhile
mike dunagan;2242767; said:
Yep those are the ones.
JamesRiggs;2242806; said:
I did notice the Nitrate levels went up once I took all my breeder tanks of the central filtration and now they are breeding like crazy. It's like I said before I NEVER do water changes. I just replace the evaporated water. I had the system up and running and got no action for over a month. I shut the pool filter off and after a week I had 4 or 5 females holding.
I never move the rock work. I would think that most waste and food would break down and be dispersed by water movement over time with little impact on water paramaters.
i have never in my time of keeping fish(only about 18months) cleaned under the rocks and my water quality is fine.
I clean under the rocks ever few months, it can get pretty gross, and gas can pocket in the sand. If your fish decided to dig in that spot the gas that has built for so long can be released and kill said fish and others...
True Mike that is a valid point. However with the snails they break down a lot of that and when I do move rockwork when I completely tear down a tank for cleaning or moving it I find next to nothing in the sand but the snails. Using a gravel vac I have very little debris that comes out of the sand. Between the snails and synodontis catfish my substrates are very clean and I use sponge filters in all my breeding tanks. No other kind of filtration.
