Thanks,
Ok cool, yes I was surprised but there was 0 clouding even right after I refilled the tank... just crystal clear
hey can u post the ammonia reading taken currently let’s see how long it’s rebound takes
I could never go back to freshwater after a taste of reefing... I find it 100x more interesting...
If the shrimp is doing fine today, we're home free
how is that shrimper. and if he has keeled over, but the water is clear and fish still swimming lol then the tank is still ok but that timing looks horribly bad.
Thats reasuring to hear
I turned the blue light off just to take the photo as it showed the growth better. Also to clarify... I have dry rock its not live rock.Perfect. That selection of minor growth, you want it, you don’t want to try and starve it out that will cause coral bleaching. Those growths are expected, and now manageable down from 75% coverage back to 5% and solely we determine if it remasses. Some of the easy tricks to lessen that grow back are making your lights far bluer than currently running, that much white selects for green algae and haze but with minor upkeep, even all white won’t cause an invaded reef. We all run different primary production levels, we can see in the nuisance algae forum what that looks like. At any point, those entrants can do what you did as well but it’s harder for large tanks. You have no algae problem now because you caused that condition without delay, all threads in the nuisance forum are varying degrees of delay in progress.
uv light is a common effective cheat people use to burn out those growths and prevent grow back, but in a nano direct cleaning is still simple. Be doing strong weekly water changes and removing growths until you stumble upon a lucky prevention arrangement.
that very high quality live rock we trusted to run your whole setup outputs nutrients into the water along with any fish, live rock produces whole waste pellets daily like snails do (the tiny animals within expel waste) so that combined with bright lights and new system is easy formula for work needed. Dont use Gfo, or phos guard, or any nitrate additives, simply do minor direct gardening upkeep. Your tank is ready for a few starter corals
not one time does rip cleaning prevent us from having to do work, it’s a skip cycle access technique. Knowing what we now know, no nano reef ever has to entertain an invasion unless we want to. My own fifteen year old nano has had more rip cleans than I can count, it’s how we got to fifteen.
Yes it is very nice stuff!
This is very interesting! I have been following your replies on other posts, especially when they're about cycling issues. I have a question regarding your rip cleaning method for Nanos... Do you use this method for all nasties (algae, etc) no matter how old the tank is or is this for new tanks only to get through the ugly phase of startup? My first tank is going to be a nano because of space issues so I'm interested in everything nano (processes, livestock, equipment, etc.).for small tanks we have learned its actually better to rip clean than anything else, due to clouding.
as of now if we reach in the tank and grab sand and drop it, cloud results
same for rocks: twist them mid tank sharply, and a cloud of feed for invasions + actual invaders comes off and casts into the water.
if we use water controls/changes/dosers to kill the brown above, thats in addition to clouding plus new clouding from dieoff.
the only reason rip cleaning didnt originate at the start of the hobby is because nobody understood what filtration bacteria actually do, they stay on surfaces even if we rinse is what they do
rip cleaning isnt harmful in the least, we have thousands of participants now, able to get pics off any recent job to match another. its just not very fun work for 100 gallons. per above, even if someone has a large tank it still works if they're serious enough to execute and follow through.
we literally rinse the sand in tap water for as long as it takes to be clear, then RO water, then put it back into a clean nano with all new water and acclimate the fish back in.
the rocks are cleaned off manually out side the tank and the whole thing goes back without a cycle always.
no cloud means no cycle, and cloud means cycle, its why we dont have to test params in rip cleans we can see if a system has clouding or not with our eyes.
for nanos, no better way exists. de clouding is thinking about future invasions, namely cyano.
thats next up
