"cleaning" live rock

[cpittmx]

When I do my PWC's every week I use turkey baster to rinse gunk that accumulates in live rock. Which of course clouds the water up for a couple hours. Is this a good or bad idea? I started wondering if I might be suspending things in the water column that I dont really want to or even interupting the biological filtering capacity of the live rock.

[law086]

Doing that is fine and a common practice. I helps clear debris out of the deep holes in your rock.

[drparker]

+1, I've been doing it for three years.

[orion1]

I also do it but I only do it every other water change or once a month. I worry about disrupting the bacteria, I have not noticed any difference in my test readings so I think it is fine.

[cpittmx]

great...because I like things clean and If I had to leave it I would go a little nuts.

[funkmaster]

i like to have my rocks clean also i run a diotom filter when i clean them

[DaveAngie79]

its a good thing to do, u do mine a few times a week.
if you notice your corals will feed when you do it

[cpittmx]

do they even sell diatom filters anymore...I haven't seen them for sale in a long time.