Live rock + DSB - how the heck?

Pszemol wrote:

So I guess the advice of not having mechanical filtration is good only for
reef tanks which have mostly corals and limited number or no fish at all...
With a lot of fish you probably cannot avoid mechanical filtration, but
keep them on very strict regime of cleaning every day to avoid turning
them into the nitrates factory.

Thanks. I happen to have a Hot Magnum filter in the closet. It's designed to
hang on the back of a tank. I think what I will do is hook that up and run it
overnight every once in a while. I'll use a turkey baster to kick some of the
detritus into circulation. That should get some of the stuff out of the tank
while avoiding the problem of having it decay in the filter medium.

George Patterson
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