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but that means you have low standards for tank invasion how nice to intercept vs recover from a full invasion.
That’s perfect you will really like the after setup. It’s not particularly dirty now so you are indeed acting early, well done.
I’ll customize these steps for sure:
You can run lights as normal when cleaned. If we’re loaded in coral we would delay bright lights in the new clean condition. Above it will shine.
catch fish first he goes into a large tote of clean saltwater or actually clean drawn off tank water above. Only take the first third that drains, its clean.
set him in the holding tote of water
watch for jumps!!!!!
now the tank is snail and rock and sand and back area
fully clean all areas keep snail in holding bin w fish
take the live rock and swish it inside a smaller container of clean saltwater
see how live rock only gets saltwater and sand gets tap, that’s key.
the sand will take long long to be rinsed in a bucket in the tub or sink via fill with tap, hand mix, dump a hundred times. Thats GHA feed and cyano feed you are proactively removing.
when its 100% clean rinse it ten more times I’m not joking heh our tendency is to under do, that kills. Clouding kills, we remove it.
*Final rinse for sand is RO, see how that evacuates tap
assemble swish clean rocks on pure sand
half new water, check for clouding, add back old water and fish and snail and rinse off all filter media in back in tap water we don’t care about its bacteria
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