Sand/tank RIP clean - During - After - Updates

Cwentz758 · May 22, 2020

brandon429 said:
well its beautiful still. When I was diving I saw reefs that looked about 10 x worse than that, and this was in 90s cayman islands when water was perfect and corals were perfectly awesome. I literally saw GHA abutting corals (something has to feed a million tang fish) and I saw patches of cyano, and valonia algae the size of ping pong balls. your tank looks cleaned than that, and we dont even have matched grazers here, so this reef looks outstanding to me considering its age.

well done.

one of these days you'll look back and this will be beaten. that may be page 110 but it w arrive one day

My biggest concern is I don’t want to bring it into another tank if I use my rock, as I’m planning an upgrade within the next year to a 5ft lagoon, and possibly in the near future a nano for my one clown who just won’t grow and gets some abuse.

Cwentz758 · May 22, 2020

Also thanks for the kind words! I wish it would grow out already lol

I went snorkeling in Aruba 2 years ago and it was amazing. I’m pretty sure I saw a diamond goby the size of a cucumber!

Cwentz758 · May 26, 2020

Update. So it’s summer, and getting hot so over the past few days the tank has been up to 82-83 degrees. Currently letting it ride to test another theory about Dinos with heating the water up to 82-83 and they disappear. I’m on day 2, no real difference yet. Going to let it ride for the week.

Next, UV doesn’t seem to be affecting my sand. Did some tests P04 is at .59 and Nitrates are at 2 or less. My current plan test is to keep the UV going and continuing to stir sand, also I’m thinking my nitrates at at 0 because the test goes no less than 2 ppm so I got some NeoNitro to raise them to 5-10. Also ordered pods and phytoplankton from algae barn to help bio diversity.

Corals are about the same. Happy day hammers, Zoas are splitting. Xenia is starting to really split and the sps is being SPS....slow. GSP ehh bits and pieces left now.

TriggerFinger · May 26, 2020

Did you ever test for silicates again in your new water container?

Cwentz758 · May 26, 2020

TriggerFinger said:
Did you ever test for silicates again in your new water container?

Yup 0

tweeter · Jun 11, 2020

I just found this thread. Good job on the cleaning, and posting!! I'm just wondering how your tank is doing now?

Cwentz758 · Jun 11, 2020

tweeter said:
I just found this thread. Good job on the cleaning, and posting!! I'm just wondering how your tank is doing now?

Fish and corals seem to be doing well. I’m currently battling large cell dinos so my sand is an ugly brown. I’m dosing silicate to create diatoms and out compete them. Also dosing nitrate as I believe it was the cause of the Dino’s.

If I did this without having Dino’s already I believe it woulda stayed crystal clean looking.

tweeter · Jun 12, 2020

Glad to hear that your fish and corals are doing good! I'm thinking of doing the same for my tank. It is 7 years old, and the sand bed is very cloudy when disturbed. We are going to be putting in new flooring this summer, so will have to move the tank anyway. I'm surely dreading it! But look forward to the new floor, and newly cleaned tank!

brandon429 · Jun 12, 2020

CWentz can we get an updated tank shot

Cwentz758 · Jun 12, 2020

tweeter said:
Glad to hear that your fish and corals are doing good! I'm thinking of doing the same for my tank. It is 7 years old, and the sand bed is very cloudy when disturbed. We are going to be putting in new flooring this summer, so will have to move the tank anyway. I'm surely dreading it! But look forward to the new floor, and newly cleaned tank!

Ya this basically is a cleaning of the litter box, you’ll hate while doing it but as long as there’s no underlying issues with algae and keep your nutrients up you won’t have dinos lol