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[brandon429]

Ill start it

but a disclaimer comes at the top hinting I think doom lies in every ten jobs lol.

see the main forum. non rinse proponents outweight the rinse proponents 10 to 1, but that's strictly in theory its not the evaluation from actually doing jobs. 100% of post rinse participants like the outcome, after doing jobs.

Ill give it a fair go though, official unrinsed thread coming up

100% of the time when people are adding sand to a new tank, the majority want that done unrinsed and they just take the cloud for as long as it presents. Lets give them what they want, a true work thread using folks from the public who truly are ok with clouding.

 

[brandon429]

The official NON rinsed sandbed action thread (tank transfers, sand swaps, sand additions and tank upgrades)

Ok team here it is for participants who want to test advice to not rinse your sandbed when adding sand to a new tank or swapping entire reef systems into new setups without any degree of old sandbed cleaning, this is the thread. Every action logged here will be completely unrinsed sand...

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now that's one way to evolve reefing, a straight up invite to action call.

 

[brandon429]

anyone who participates there I'll claim is very brave.

I summarized five convincing reasons there not to rinse, comprised from every single non rinse post I've seen. those are the top five reasons to skip rinsing am certain.

 

[Reefology1]

Want to know something about phosphates? And how to maintain them in your reef?

I'm dying on this hill - Phosphate is more important than alkalinity

Well, clearly a regulat salt like IO, Coralife or Fritz and RO/DI provides plenty of silica. Here's sopnge growth behind the rocks in the system referenced above Here's a pale white sponge, same system Here's a bunch of yellow, pinkish and translucent sponge in sump, same system...

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