Also in prep based on prior rip cleans
some strains of cyano are virulent, well-adapted and hard to beat. Usually not, but Frogger and BCarl77 had these strains. If this is a nano then just rip clean it and you’ll win, if it’s truly a large tank I recommend not reinstalling the sand for a while and making sure the bare bottom system stays clean, then add back the prepped sand weeks later as a stagger. It’s easier to do follow up guidance (or adding a uv sterilizer only in the cleaned condition) without sand present. Here’s one that did a stagger
I've had my tank going for two years next month. I'm moving this build over from another forum, so the time stamps aren't going to reflect the original's. I will try to document the original dates as I go. It's also an opportunity to edit my build, there was so much at the beginning I didn't...
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that’s a hundred gallon reef, some forge past excuse #1
this thread today will be a great test for the old reefing rule that reefing in the biggest tank we can afford is best.
a rip clean seems insane upon cursory inspection
a rip clean seems insane to non work threaders despite the after pics linked above
but it’s a contextual trick
in a thread where the sole task is moving reefs from one home to the other, without loss, without using bottled bacteria in the new display, we transfer only rip cleaned substrate (because cloudy waste causes recycles, clean = skip cycles, rip cleans merely remove all your organic sludge at once)
In that context, clean reef in new home, the crowd loves it.
the crowd is very, very finicky with their contexts
even though the procedure on the tank doesn’t change with the thread title being an invasion fix thread or a home move thread or a sand removal thread. All same moves, all with opposite crowd evaluations on ethics.
all after pics look the same
we rip clean because of how the after pics look, because of what the updates stated. We absolutely save reefs with it.
