If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...
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there's the moves and cleanups all in one place.
the order is: drain off current tank water and be catching fish
pull out rocks as water drops and set rocks in their own cleaning container, we clean before moving not after.
have fish held with isolated frags in their own container, not with rocks.
fish are corals on their own alone
then, take rocks and swish them harshly, twist mid water, in buckets of old drawn off tank water to jet out all their accumulated waste. move only cleaned rocks. set the rocks now in cleanwater in a moving container, now that they've been jetted clean/pores opened up if needed etc. we move only clean items to avoid recycling then it works perfectly.
now you have old tank, muddy partial water, and sand if applicable.
take it all down and rinse the sand for hours in tap water, until its clean like a snowglobe. final rinse is ro, to evacuate tap.
move the cleaned sand and cleaned rocks and cleaned glass tank and fish in corals with buckets alone to new house.
set it all up with new water, it will all skip cycle we show. match the temp and salinity to the old water.
*dont turn on your lights full blast, ramp them up over one week like its all new lighting.
done, pls take pics for page 38
if you have sand the most important part of the entire process is the tap water rinse.
even if you get new sand, same rinse, nothing changes. the entire success of the thread and half a million in other people's money was protected by rinsing sand in tap water, the #1 thing that people would say in a poll not to do.
but there it is for five years running.
per above:
moving homes-same steps
ridding cyano-same steps
upgrading tanks or downgrading-same steps
preventing invasion before there's even a problem-same steps
taking a reef tank to a reef convention to skip cycle and start on time-same steps
deep cleaning isn't harmful its awesome and makes your reef live indefinitely with no biological lifespan limit, although luck and hardware are the other 99% of longevity
