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Podcast: The Tint
Episode: The "Detritus Dilemma"- again!
Description: Ecologists define detritus as,  "... partially decomposed organic matter from plant and animal tissues, in addition to microorganisms and minerals."
Note that nowhere in either definition do you see references to the stuff being "dangerous" or "detrimental" to fishes or aquariums. Now, look, having an excess of just about anything accumulating somewhere in the closed environment of an aquarium has an impact that you'll have to deal with somehow, or at the very least, have an understanding of.
I know that uneaten food and fish poop, accumulating in a closed system can be problematic if overall hu...