Dirty Sandbed

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by cptclever

I use an Eheim canister and an Aquaclear 500 hang-on and skimmer for filtration. Think I have lots of water movement - powerhead 801 and 301 plus the two filters.

How often do you clean the filter media in your canister and 500? The more often they are cleaned, the more crud they can pick up. You can also turkey baste the sandbed lightly, as well as the rock and corals, to get the crud up into the water column where the media in your filtration systems will remove some of it. After the tank clears, thoroughly clean the media.

I have sumpless, refugless tanks and this is how I keep my sandbeds relatively clean. Usually do the basting, cleaning thing twice a week in problem tanks.