Detritus settling around reef rock edges advice?

Leggmantn2015 · Jan 2, 2017

So I have a nano 21 gal cube nano reefer tank. Excessive Ditritus is settling aroud edges of the reef rock. I'm only conserned because it looks ugly and I'm not sure how to deal with it. I'm maintaining 0 nitrates and near zero phosphates. My return pump is over sized its a jebao dct 6000. It produces about 1500 gal per hour i use it at about half power though 750ghp. Any advice I don't want anything that will bother or steal the corals food. I do water changes once a month. I'm not sure if there is any other details i can give but thats my problem.

cloak · Jan 2, 2017

A siphon is probably your best bet.

saltyfilmfolks · Jan 2, 2017

Leggmantn2015 said:
So I have a nano 21 gal cube nano reefer tank. Excessive Ditritus is settling aroud edges of the reef rock. I'm only conserned because it looks ugly and I'm not sure haow to deal with it. I'm maintaining 0 nitrates and near zero phosphates. My return pump is over sized its a jebao dct 6000. It produces about 1500 gal per hour i use it at about half power though 750ghp. Any advice I don't want anything that will bother or steal the corals food. I do water changes once a month. I'm not sure if there is any other details i can give but thats my problem.

love to see a picture.
Usually manual removal is best.
is you sump full of junk? on prob Ive had with too high a return rate is it puts stuff back into the display. I think right now your at a 20x return rate.

Leggmantn2015 · Jan 2, 2017

Nothing is getting back in too the display it runs through a filter sock. Its just ugly fish poo everywhere.

saltyfilmfolks · Jan 2, 2017

Leggmantn2015 said:
Nothing is getting back in too the display it runs through a filter sock. Its just ugly fish poo everywhere.

Trust me I have socks too. dust gets through. You may also want to check that your flow in the DT keeps it in suspension as long as possible so it gets to the sump.
Im also a big advocate of spring cleaning. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/s...for-blowing-off-detritus.281431/#post-3421957

sweet tank too!

Leggmantn2015 · Jan 2, 2017

I'm not disagreeing dust gets through. But this is not dust its giant fish poo chunks. Dust is not my problem. I aprecate your input though. The siphon idea sounds promising though. I was hoping there was some clean up crew i could get.

saltyfilmfolks · Jan 2, 2017

Leggmantn2015 said:
I'm not disagreeing dust gets through. But this is not dust its giant fish poo chunks. Dust is not my problem. I aprecate your input though.

no sweat. Id check the turbulence of the flow. Beef the clean up crew, you want poo eaters, snails crabs, https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/choosing-cleanup-crew-critters.258695/
And maybe ask the fish to chew thier food a little more too.

Reefrookie220 · Jan 2, 2017

Siphon from the tank into a spare sock right into the sump to not disrupt your water change schedule. And for in between the monthly change.

Be careful though, nitrates can build up quickly in a little tank. If your going that long between changes I'm surprised they don't creep up on you.

Joshua Hurst · Jan 2, 2017

Get power head flow on the rocks. Switch up those turbulants

Esage · Jan 3, 2017

I don't see a power head in the tank

Zoarium · Jan 3, 2017

They make small power heads that you could add to your sump in order to keep the gunk suspended. I try to focus on and clean out the sump every other water change or so. Nice tank set up btw

Leggmantn2015 · Jan 3, 2017

My nitrates stay at zero because I have a massive ball of cheato I run at 14hrs of light a day. And I don't have a power head, I couldn't find any small enough that would have a low enough flow.
I'm afraid the tank will turn into a tornado being so small. If any one knows of a low flow one I'm open to suggestions.

Zoarium · Jan 3, 2017

What size tank?

Tyler Caviness · Jan 3, 2017

I have a sicce voyager nano stream 250gph in my 8 gallon biocube and even in there, it's not too much flow. It's rated for 10-20 gallon aquariums I think.