Tim hey one more bump
its to link case studies in nanos so we can track out destiny of controlled reefs vs reefs where the owner sits back and awaits events
Hi. Another pair of newbies here, probably doing it all wrong and hoping someone can tell us what our mistakes are. Started a Fluval Sea 13 Gallon tank in January using the supplied pump plus a small wavemaker head to pulse it. Four pieces of live rock, one in the corner and three together to mak...
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as I skim the web for nano longevity trends, that stands out. Not for the obvious algae issues we can all get
but for the peer training. What’s the very very last option they’d ever consider, the worst thing possible, only to be ran as a last resort? A free of charge rip clean. They consider it equal to loss of the entire reef, really they do it’s why the option never comes up.
you will have a gha issue on day, we all do until coralline starts to help out by rejecting. I’m not saying you have to chemically attack every algae either…it’s ok to try snails and cuc fish options
but you don’t ride the system into the ground like that, they have the option to be shiny, right now, but peers will not allow it so they won’t. Notice how many fish are being cycled through that setup as a hopeful control…massive disease input. Massive waste adding, vs subtracting, that fish waste and extra feed command actually causes more gha as they can’t believe the system needs export, they are trained to buy things, test and import.
you can see they have fine fine coralline on the walls and in areas on the rock, we’d keep that. While disassembled and sand getting rinsed, spray the walls of coralline with wet saltwater and keep moist. Rebuild the tank clean, but with aging markers left in place.
while rock is out, you use a pocket knife to tip-scrape and dislodge all anchored algae, rinsing free of saltwater. Now the rocks are clean and we didn’t dose the tank and sit idly for two months as things decline.
if you want thorough, put a little peroxide where the algae used to be, on the scraped rocks externally, and put back in tank perfectly clean and avoiding the coralline areas (they don’t have algae to scrape anyway, coralline rejects algae adherence)
visualize how that tank above would look after this type of handling. It’s entire life course would be different vs where it’s heading.
all the snails added, all the indirect actions loading the system, they’re headed towards a crash and or willing reset.
if someone wants to try snails, try them in the clean condition as growback prevention. Doing opposite of what the masses advise is the secret to incredibly long term nano reefing.
Based on advised options, when does their toil end? Open- ended, no completion date in old tank control science. Wait and hope all day
but when is the completion / fix date for the tank if they used a rip clean? Their whole system is fixed by 2 pm. Today could be the day but they won’t choose it, peers will never allow it. That much control is bad, ride the tank totally into the dirt and lose it all is preferable to the masses
we would never test for ammonia after a cycle, it remains in control. If a dead snail is causing raised ammonia, you remove the dead snail no kit is required to tell you if a rotting animal is causing imbalance. Fish hiding dead in a rock stack? Don’t build fish retaining rock stacks then
your nano reef is now immune to any form of algae takeover whatsoever, to be invaded in nano reefing is a conscious choice we make to allow or disallow it.
*no harm in trying all non rip clean options for gha, including simple lighting changes or snails etc. A rip clean doesn’t have to always be the way, but you use it before riding the tank into the ground, that tank above can’t take much more clouding and additives before it crashes.
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