Cleaning fishpoop

[ErikVR]

So my question today is, how are you cleaning up after your fish?

My big foxface is littering the sand with chucky poop that won't get lifted by the flow, unless I create an underwater hurricane maybe... Vacuuming the sandbed won't pick it up either. Unless I get so much flow going that it sucks up more sand than poop and I don't want replace sand every month.

 

[StatelineReefer]

So my question today is, how are you cleaning up after your fish?

My big foxface is littering the sand with chucky poop that won't get lifted by the flow, unless I create an underwater hurricane maybe... Vacuuming the sandbed won't pick it up either. Unless I get so much flow going that it sucks up more sand than poop and I don't want replace sand every month.

My fox drops his payload in the same place every time, so I put my mushrooms under that spot. Now I have splitting mushrooms and no foxface mess.

Circle of life.

I also have detritivores that make short work of any waste in the sand anyways. So it technically never is waste, it's just the nutrient cycle.

 

[blecki]

The brittle stars eat it.

 

[exnisstech]

Put some tangs in. They eat everyones waste before it hits the bottom of the tank :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

[Kmst80]

When my foxface poops, 4 other fish are behind him having dinner.

 

[blecki]

Put some tangs in. They eat everyones waste before it hits the bottom of the tank :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

Mine eat their own poop.

 

[ErikVR]

Didn't know they were such pigs!
I currently don't have a cleanup crew other than a lawnmower blenny. Could it be time to get some critters in there?