Thank you so much
I can tell as things progress its important to separate haphazard starts, the 'bad' rushing of things, from absolutely controlled skip cycling. To me, its a form of trust-training that starts with accepting what bacteria can do, and tolerate, and relying on that as the base measure for rules of engagement. If we are allowed to clean much deeper/harsher in small tanks vs what we were told 20 yrs ago, then we have less invaded tanks.
we're free to move them
we're free to de-dino them if needed, without wait and parameter chasing
we're free to weather power outages better if that stinky old sandbed habit is changed into super clean sand that doesn't command oxygen from the reef like nine fish would do
its not that we break rules haphazardly but to be able to reef small and show large tankers they too can opt out if current methods seem dated..after all we're running full ecosystem testing on systems that have the lowest dilution and room for error in reefing, large tankers benefit when they mine the pico forums for outcomes and sps plated onto glass so thick you have to dremel it off. Problems with coral growth too much, not coral disease, neat dichotomy imo.
there are times where nothing good happens fast, and in others, we're working within the boundaries of what the most important organisms in our tanks have adapted to so that we control the tanks and not the other way around. Pico reefers don't wait for compliance, they command it over and over its just one way among a few that have few outliers and strong coral growth among posters
