I always liked to call these rip cleans to to t-off the establishment
Because thinking ammonia- controlling bacteria in reefing are weak leads to untruth and dependence on bottle bac salesmen to feel good about reefing
saying that you've ripped into a reef tank really bothers them, the boundary setters
Shows bottle bac salesmen we didn't need them to reef just as don't need an aquabiomics test to manage our bacteria
Force in export manages our bacteria we show, the slicks that remain behind after a deep cleaning to remove dangerous detritus waste in the sandbed are always enough
Revealing the true boundaries of care has benefits to reefing
200 works:
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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it’s not really a reset, because we don’t have to recycle your tank. The original cycle holds, reef tank surgery to remove deadly detritus is what we did there.
every job, for eight years, is the same set of actions in the same order
some do rip cleans so they can move to new homes with no loss
some do them for dinos battles, to win
some do them for tank upgrades so the transfer won’t kill fish
but the order of ops are all the same for every job that’s key.
the thread shows you how to tap water rinse your sandbed back to total clarity
how to hold fish and corals in totes
how to rasp rocks clean of algae and unwanted attachments
the reassembly steps
there is no testing for any parameter other than temp and salinity
then they do the important light power drop and re acclimation in the new tank, done.
take a couple days to read specific job links we did there
take pics of your tank so we can add those to the example set
the absolute undeniable linking factor in all those jobs is we rinsed the tank substrate so well to produce total cloudlessness, and that aligned all tanks for safety. whether they're moving, upgrading, or getting uninvaded.
we simply took reefs apart, and reassembled them without any detritus. what you can do with a tank during that interim takedown/set back up time are the moves, upgrades and cleanings
