when I had these posters for pages post close up details of their sand, in that thread, we saw nothing. sand and water and detritus and 5% doom.
in their hand for the picture nothing was wiggling, writhing or crawling.
yes some worms developed there, and we're killing them in the name of safety, but the patterns from the job simply show they come back. my own reef has been blasted more than anyone's and its documented, yet I have worm tracks today. fifteen years of the action. regenerates, that's key.
so moving partially rinsed sand honestly does work 98% of the time its likely Bill has moved one that way, thousands of others have.
but that one loss, in public, sting of the accountability of a live work thread, will simply make a person never allow under 100% retention rate again. they'll overdo what's necessary to never have it again.
The costlier a reef tank is the more on the scale of blast rinsing you want to be.
someone needs to write an article about how many opposite permitted actions have come to commonplace in reefing, what drives it
is it needs based or just snake oil salesmanship.
just how firm are the rules in reefing? good title.
imagine telling someone on CompuServe in 1997 that in a mere twenty years dumping half bottles of peroxide into reefs will be all the rage and that blast rinsing sand in tap doesn't cause harm for forty pages only good outcome pics over and over. they'd have banned you right off the map.
