gravel cleaners

[gibbin94]

Do gravel cleaners remove coepods from the tank when I siphon out water?

 

[melosu58]

It should not but you never know sometimes. What kind of substrate do you have? If it`s sand you really dont need a cleaner. A good clean up crew will do the job. JMO

 

[gibbin94]

crushed coral

 

[melosu58]

Yes you`ll need to vacuum that to keep nitrates down. I would not worry about pods going up the vac.

 

[gibbin94]

ok ty

 

[gibbin94]

are there a CUC that can burrow into that or will all of the cleaning come from the vacuum?

 

[melosu58]

CC is pretty sharp and quite heavy. Not too much can get through it. You might want to consider in the future going to sand.

 

[gibbin94]

if i remove a lot of the CC can i put sand on top of it because my tank is lightly stocked at the moment, so it would be easier to change now than later.

 

[melosu58]

NO the sand will work it`s way to the bottom and you`ll still have the CC at the top. Your sest bet is to remove the CC 1/4 at a time and fill it back in with sand.

 

[Innovator]

Actually if amphipods and bristleworms can be siphoned through a gravel vac, I'm pretty certain just about anything else can too. I'm all for gravel vaccing no matter what substrate you have and you'll definitely need one for CC.

 

[gibbin94]

thank you guys, would it be possible to have a half and half set up, CC fading into sand? or would it make more sense to just replace the CC

 

[gibbin94]

because i think that would look cool but idk if it is a good idea...

 

[gibbin94]

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