Eric's Tip of the Week - Detrius cleanup

[perpetual98]

So one of my 120G tanks wasn't looking so hot lately. About a week or so ago I sucked about a years worth of scum out of the sump. I think I got about 25 gallons of the nastiest water out of there. Usually when I do water changes I just suck detrius and stuff off the rocks in the display

Little did I know what a huge impact it would have on the tank. The tank went from borderline being taken down to looking fantastic. The only thing that I did was remove all the detrius in the sump.

Get your reef on!!
Eric

[Whoyah]

Would you recommend cleaning your refugium as well? My sump is bare bottom with considerable amount of flow so detrius is not a problem there but who know what is hiding under all of that chaeto in the fuge.

[perpetual98]

My sump was bare bottom too with a huge wad of chaeto in it, so it sounds similar to yours. I probably have somewhere in the neighborhood of 800-900GPH through the sump. On my other 120G tank, I did a massive cleaning of my refuge yesterday, so we'll see what if any effect sucking the detrius from the refuge in the coming week or so I guess.