The main part is holding fish and corals alone in clean water matching temp and salinity to current water, so that any sloshing or mixing up of cells/cleaning scum is away from them. The bacteria on the rocks will specifically not be killed or dislodged in the cleaning method devised for the tank and when you set it back up 110% cloudless clean, with or without sand, the rocks will instantly carry the current fish bioloading as a skip cycle reassembly, this activity will match all the other rip cleans and safety outcomes. Yours will be among a mere handful of dinos studies we can track out over coming weeks so it will be very valuable work. If you get a chance to run it tomorrow lol that’s a little better than the weekend heh
but this multi-month scourge is about to get suplexed either way.
even if you have incredibly strong invader cells and they begin to amass even after light hand gardening/removal when the time comes to use param detailing, dosers, kill agents etc the whole thing is better aligned for success in the low mass condition and if some cells are left to degrade in the tank it will not chemical soup the setup, they can be absorbed as common bioloading due to massive reduction in numbers by this export cleaning.
Its not that rip cleaning is harmful and a last choice option, its that rip cleaning runs the largest tank transfer collection thread on the internet because cloudlessness is skip cycle control over a reef. we take reefs apart and wash the sand for pages on end so that tanks can be moved to new homes and lose nothing.
if you were moving home's we'd do this same set of moves on a perfectly fine reef.
rip cleaning/taking tanks apart and
not moving detritus to the new tank is exactly how every reef can be upgraded or moved to a new home without recycling. at every cleaning event, you get to preserve the same coral mass but instantly de-age the tank. it has no downsides
it causes agelessness by cheat, not that someone earned a perfectly self-tuned tank. find that setup and you'll never need to rip clean (until move time)
if six worms in the sandbed that may be killed mattered, we wouldn't need rip cleaning. they add to waste, they don't reduce it
thats why sandbed fauna never stops us from valuing the tank as a whole and saving it at their expense.
heck we can buy a recharger bag from algaebarn for any reef that is too clean. in three days you're diverse again
adding pods here is wise, they are likely to directly eat dinos cells. they may be the single best thing you can do after a rip clean for dinos.