120 gallon rip clean

[brandon429]

yes and honestly I think yours being used to the motion would be ok with that adjustment and a shorter burn period next few days, say 4 hours total then 6 then 8/whatever your max is

those corals are adapted to fringing reef life. in the home lol nice one. heck of a nice work thread.

 

[brandon429]

bro can cabinets support one million pounds of reef weight lol I have no idea but was wondering-thats a mighty big aquarium!!!!

each time you cook a steak the feeder tentacles will come out. mines a kitchen reef.

 

[fishybizzness]

Hi! That's alot of gunk coming out of that sand! Question, did you regularly vacuum the sand during water changes or was that buildup from not vacuuming? I regularly vacuum my sand but still have buildup in areas under the rocks that I can't get to so I'm thinking about doing a rip clean as well. Thanks

 

[CoralClasher]

Hi! That's alot of gunk coming out of that sand! Question, did you regularly vacuum the sand during water changes or was that buildup from not vacuuming? I regularly vacuum my sand but still have buildup in areas under the rocks that I can't get to so I'm thinking about doing a rip clean as well. Thanks

I did not touch the sand since I put it in a few months ago. Most of that sand was Garf Grunge and mud that I bought. I was very surprised how dirty that sand was but did not smell at all.

 

[CoralClasher]

 

[CoralClasher]

I’m about ready to start on transferring this deep sand bed refugium we will see if this sand smells and different.

 

[CoralClasher]

Anyone have a trick for finding cucumbers in a deep sand bed?

 

[CoralClasher]

OMG Oolite sand is a pain in the backside to rinse!!!

 

[brandon429]

Hey I bet it takes a good ten percent of the mass of sand away after thorough rinse, does it vary at all in size or all is literally dust ?

 

[CoralClasher]

Hey I bet it takes a good ten percent of the mass of sand away after thorough rinse, does it vary at all in size or all is literally dust ?

The Oolite sand is kind of heavy but I never rinsed the 160 pounds and almost two years. I’m sure I have 2/3 of what I started with? I just got done rinsing. All of the way down to the bottom I never smelled anything bad.

 

[brandon429]

I just replaced my bed after three years it was pretty waste heavy but no smell agreed. It was fueling some gha though which is now not a prob

 

[CoralClasher]

Everything is looking good so far.

 

[Ribo15]

Is that seriously your kitchen? Lol my wife would kill me if half my kitchen was now a fish tank. But it looks great

 

[CoralClasher]

Is that seriously your kitchen? Lol my wife would kill me if half my kitchen was now a fish tank. But it looks great

So these are not my main kitchen cabinets they are in my laundry room down in the basement.

I just took these pictures.

 

[CoralClasher]

 

[Ribo15]

Ohh okay that makes way more sense! Very nice set up.

 

[brandon429]

Jon I’m linking this thread for the one bazillionth time. I counted, the reef to reef ticker is just slow


they are repeating your work too, it’s saving reef tanks.

 

[CoralClasher]

Jon I’m linking this thread for the one bazillionth time. I counted, the reef to reef ticker is just slow


they are repeating your work too, it’s saving reef tanks.

Well I’ve let my tank go without any maintenance for like 4 months now and I might hit the rip clean again.

 

[brandon429]

And it looks great still, I guarantee if that was a DSB system it’d have much more uncontrolled growth, the tank still looks great


the post rip clean condition has been known to spoil folks with unfairly high standards heh but this still looks great as is, when you do it’s fifth rip clean then you’ll have the clarity back but as it sits this is how everyone wants their reef to look it’s worst.

 

[CoralClasher]

Here is white lights only.