maintaining a fuge

[devonian]

Question: Does anyone vaccuum out their fuge during a water change?

I mean, mine has caulerpa growing in it, and like a 2 inch bed of sand, ... I know it is collecting detritus, should I try toclean it out every once in a while?

[Crazyeyes]

Every so often I take some out so I can get more growth, Wichita helps promote a beter system. If you are collecting detrious then I would turn of your pumps and shake you algea and siphon the water out and yes I do some of my water changes from my sump to get detrious out.

[Ping]

How big is the fuge, how much current is passing through it? how deep is the detritus?

[Big_Pun]

I was wondering the same thing but I'm running a bare bottom fuge just macro

[devonian]

well my fuge does have a substrate, and i notice detritus collecting and been thinking of removing some to clean it up a bit it is not collecting in the macro, just settling on top/within the substrate