at work got sdtrcked back on
the coverage on the rocks is preventing them from expressing pent up waste. All live rocks produce it; set the cleanest purplest most knurly quality live rock you can buy/order into a white paint bucket of sw, you get detritus every day as long as that rock exists
live rock expresses waste and we don't account for that in lots of todays tank reworks.
If you choose to topically kill that cyano, which many actions sure can, then you get the same pore blocking cuz its not being removed, but now with a layer topcoat of dying organism to pack more into the pores
the opposite is hand access
storm zone simulation, puts back open, expressing pores. you increase your surface area vastly by cleaning out this tank vs medicating it...currently the pores have coverage from normal matted invaders we expect to see on the reef...
theres nothing wrong with your major params or your corals w be suffering
during your planned move, its ideal to reference some tanks from that work thread and see how deep they cleaned/we dislodged crud from every pore. oxygenating flow comes back into the rocks, health, self regulation begins since they can exchange w the tank now vs just sink and plug
Your reef is simply modeling a zone you'd rather have it model a more active fringing zone in look, so, we've got to flush it out if you want to speed up recovery
Standard kill/die/absorb in tank/slowly exported as detritus by manual filtration does work, but it takes time, and we compensate for the rush by doubling up on dosers...coral kill
we killed none in that thread
its highly ironic that total surgery, done right, is the safest thing for your corals and the most natural actually. have you seen the active ingredient in marine algaefix its 27 letters long. people rage over that stuff, but they pack in waste, then make another purchase to offset the detritus that came from the dying algae in their waste cloud setups.
our tanks don't get the correct flushing nature provides so they turn into plant lagoons or moneran trap areas of +organic loading unless we shake things up so to speak, at the right time.
