Fish poo all over

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Marconis

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In my cichlid tank, there is fish poop almost every inch on the sand. Is this bad? I haven't seen any rise in parameters from it, but its annoying to look at. Are my filters doing their job?
 
You might want to get a powerhead to blow the poo to a corner and then you can clean up after them pretty easily, or if you can rig it up right, blow the poo to the filter intake. Cichlids are big poopers.
 
Cichlid are big poopers. It's not small stuff like community fish. We have our outputs positioned to blow all poo to a corner so it's easily removed. I did notice that when we upgraded one of our filters to a bigger model there was less poo. Dirtier filter, but less poo.
 
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