Rowdy Hotel
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I have a couple of low tech dirt planted tanks. One tank has fine gravel and another has coarser gravel as a cap over one and a half inches of dirt. I never siphon the gravel in these tanks when I'm doing a water change (which I've been doing more frequently since I added apistos). Nitrates are undetectable or barely registering on the quick dip strips. I've been wondering if the detritus building up in the gravel bed was bad for my apistos or rams in any way. I've actually been considering siphoning the tank a little to remove some detritus so the cap doesn't get clogged and seal off the dirt layer underneath from oxygenated water.
I was also in the process of mineralizing some more dirt to set up another tank and I was thinking of adding a thinner layer of sand as a cap. This would allow the detritus produced to sit on top of the sand and allow me to remove it during the next water change.
I was also in the process of mineralizing some more dirt to set up another tank and I was thinking of adding a thinner layer of sand as a cap. This would allow the detritus produced to sit on top of the sand and allow me to remove it during the next water change.