06/08/2023
Detritus is important every day of the week 🟤 but giving it a special where members of the botanical community can share and educate is important for growing our niche!
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When I started aquarium keeping 20 years ago at the ripe ole’ age of 6, detritus was “that thing you remove during a water change”. And, because of the way I kept my tanks using inert aquarium gravel with no plants, it probably helped my nitrates in the long run. The detritus in that kind of aquarium was formed from fish p**p and uneaten fish food, ie: full of nutrients!
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Today, I keep botanical aquariums full of leaves, seed pods, twigs, and bark, and as those break down they form a slightly different kind of detritus. One full of various kinds of cellulose, lignins…FIBERS! You know, fiber, it helps you 💩. Well, turns out in tinted water ecosystem that the detritus is actually pretty important for the proper functioning of the ecosystem. Bacteria and Fungi feed, yes literally feed, off that stuff and move the energy locked away in that detritus up into the ecosystem of the aquarium.
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So where does that leave us now? Well, it depends where your detritus comes from and how you keep your tank! If you keep a botanical aquarium, or want to keep a botanical aquarium, don’t touch it! It’s someone else’s food.
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