Fuge + Cucumber for Detritus?

I have a 30g fuge attached to my 100g reef tank. The fuge is slow flow with cheato and a DSB (3" to 6"). Iv read that people like to just leave their fuge alone and thats what i have been doing. However lately i had cyano outbreak. I think the outbreak was due to too much detritus. I added 2 modded maxijets and have been cleaning DT everyday. I cleaned sump and got a bunch of detritus out.

My fuge also has tons of detritus on the sand. Its hard for me to siphon it out as the fuge is ground level. Also filled with a bunch of live rock rubble and cheato. Whats the best way to get rid of the detritus in sand? I was thinking maybe getting a cucumber in there. Iv never owned one. Would a cucumber do a good job? I currently have a bunch of pods, tiny snails, bristleworms etc...No hermits, larger snails, shrimp (other then a temporary CB)

 

Diamond Gobies are good as are sand sifting stars and hermits. Water changes would help. I have cheato in a DSB fuge for my 210g reef and these are what helps me. I've always been told to leave the fuge alone but I'm interested to see what others have to say.

 

Leave the fuge alone

Cyano in a refugium is fine. Don't add anything that's going to sift the sand or you will defeat its purpose.

 

I have a Diamond Goby in my DT. He keeps the sand clean but i dont think he eats the detritus. I think he just eats the creatures eating the detritus if im not mistaken. Some stars or hermits are probably necessary.

I make a 15g water change every 10 days. I would rather get to the source. Which im sure is the detritus i see. Algae uses up the nutrients in water so water changes dont really help as much as siphoning detritus and cyano.

 

Im not worried about cyano in the fuge too much. Im worried about the detritus buildup in fuge and the cyano in my DT.

Cant i add something that just eats detritus without disturbing a DSB?

 

Anyone else with an opinion?

 

I'm all for leaving the DSB alone myself. why not just wave the sand to stir up the detris into the water column and then siphon out with a power head.. lightly mixing top layer of sand in a DSB of 6+inches should not hurt the denitrification process. a few hermit also would do little in disturbing the DSB.

 

there is nothing that really eats all detritus buildup that I know of. Most things that eat detritus, sift through it to find the good stuff. They don't eat all of the dust buildup. I too would like to know what to do with settling detritus. I have hermits and snails in my sump, but still plenty of detritus. There is no way to siphon up unless you use a powerhead. A method like that may work, but I wonder what everyone else does? Ignore and just let it build?