Live sand

[brandon429]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bummer-could-use-some-help.558301/

Linking a few more non rinse starts n headaches

 

[brandon429]

Team a little bump here

We’re ensuring that non pre rinsing is a departed technique...

collected works

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/sandbed-stirred-up.544852/#post-5723606

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/very-cloudy-water-after-sand-and-rock.559386/#post-5735864




https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cloudy-tank.576835/




The reason it’s important to clarify the science of pre rinsing accurately is because this affects how aquarists set their own boundaries for tank care and remediation

An aquarist who commands the aquarium is going to lose less money and less animals over time than the sit back and be delicate approach...evolution of reefing from 90s till now
You get to enjoy your aquarium on day one with a pre rinse vs day twenty

Accurate microbiology is driving all of it. We can access a tank for cleaning without a recycle, a few years ago the sages said we couldn’t. Now we do it just to rub it in, on tanks that don’t even need help~

We can opt out of an uglies phase, they’re optional. The sand rinse thread is twenty pages of opting out of uglies. One dude purposefully invades his three thousand dollar investment, and another man doesn’t...all changing ways to approach reefing.

We’re evolving from a period of inaccurate microbiology to a period of accuracy...so the boundaries of care and tank designs expand. How long you have to wait has now changed across many fronts

Speed came to reefing, the sages shutter. The science lovers want to meet the demand functionally however

We lose less money now, we take command of filthy tanks vs lose them, and it all starts with that willing initial rinse and being absolutely sure ahead of time what happens if we do pre rinse.

 

[Gogoggansgo]

You need to rinse it with tap until it’s clear

Two points about that:

It doesn’t kill bacteria off the rocks, tap water isn’t a sterilizer or lab techs wouldn’t need to use more to sterilize at the end of the work day. Tap water delivers bacteria, it doesn’t kill them in the way we’d expect

The ability to work with your new tank in a cloudless condition is priceless, the bacteria that are in live sand / caribsea are not needed. It’s in excess of the bacteria that cycling provides on the surfaces that count.

At no time is the bacteria in a sandbed the critical breakpoint in having ‘enough’ bacteria to run a bioload of fish and corals provided cycled rocks are in place, using the typical amounts

The rocks are always enough, we remove sandbeds from full running reefs all the time in the sand rinse thread. at no time do live rocks take time to ‘take on more bacteria’ in the presence of a sandbed being removed...not how microbiology works. The rocks maintained their own steady states the whole time, independent of the sand, and their surface area is enough says the bare bottom tank generation. This means you’re able to rinse your new sand in tap water until it runs clear. You’ll be inputting cloudless grains. Easy to move rocks around afterwards, ideal in every way and in no way is not rinsing a better option.

My LFS told me to do the same it took some work but i got all my sand cleaned it took about 4 days and a some filter floss but my water is crystal clear

 

[Gogoggansgo]

If ya want my personal opinion and i am a noob. I don’t think using live sand as your main source of BIO is a good idea. It’s seems it’s extremely hit or miss. I used dry rock but got small little balls of rock from my LFS that where about a year old. I used this to seed my tank. Beside my nitrites spiking a little bit everything is going good on the cycle

 

[brandon429]

And a great benefit for you now is that if your rocks fell over or if a powerhead dislodged, there’s nothing in there to well up and cause headaches

They look clean and happy above yep

Nearly all reefs in the early 2000s were started with no pre rinse, mine included. We evolved

 

[Gogoggansgo]

And a great benefit for you now is that if your rocks fell over or if a powerhead dislodged, there’s nothing in there to well up and cause headaches

They look clean and happy above yep

Nearly all reefs in the early 2000s were started with no pre rinse, mine included. We evolved

Yeah besides my nitrites being around 1PPM. I bet in a week or so it’ll be completely done

That wound make it a 3 week cycle but I’m not adding anything till the nitrites get to 0