Since that dsb has only the kind of algae you purposefully stock in there and not the takeover kind like would be on a scrubber mat (best out of sight) it's wonderful reef sectioning. Looks like a planted tank
I want to link this thread to our sand rinse thread ironically because this has the balance imo where you'd not want to blast it, harmony is pictured there, no sulfide pockets in cross section or cyano down under that bed...literally there are no undesirables I can see. It's meant to run hands off until forced times like these...a move. If your dsb was mine I'd sieve it before rinse out, and literally bag up and retransport my own GARF old school reefers get the reference. Take no detritus, filter it out, get creative. You can move a huge portion of your worms.
*must have a fast process planned. As soon as detritus zones get hand mixed small losses can occur but if you are getting bugs out creatively somehow then you can save time building your new bed with transfers~
For our rinse thread we aren't dealing with balance and tempered input and true mineralization...so it seems like we are anti dsb
Am anti detritus
We are dealing with twelve or twenty decent fish plus corals plus heavy feeding plus three years of non export in some cases, plus DT algae problems at times- of course it needs blasting we can see symptoms in the pre cross sections. Such an important distinction in sandbed vs sandbed arguments...its case by case eval. Many are sinks, yours is balanced and not overstocked
Points on detritus imo:
Input vs sinking, mineralization and export is why the takeover algae isn't winning in spite of certain detritus input and storage. It's not that your system isn't collecting detritus, it's that it's not fish detritus right over the bed x 20 pellet makers (like a display tank) every waking hour for six years.
The remote aspect allows large detritus work in the main tank and only bug detritus for that deep bed. You do have great fish and you also have a fully accessible DT and good distribution currents obviously, I see no piles of waste jetted in the corners
this appears to be a long life span ecosystem per pic details. your mini cycle risk in this move was only the detritus and the most important part of the tank has none. The unrinsed remote dsb is ideal.
