It will work and you can scan this thread to see all jobs are the same
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your plan will work. Pre rinse the new sand for hours in tap until totally free of silt then a final rinse in salt
the rocks will for sure without doubt carry over bacteria. We have been trained to fear lack of bacteria. It never happens per above
Greg I just saw that request for the move induced disease, disturbance of scape - induced disease. I have a few standout threads
it’s not screaming out yet as a guarantee but the little proofs are slowly coming about I’m watching disease posts in the disease forum and am seeing more and more no prep systems, running fine for years, and then a sand bed disturbance or rock change breaks out something in the fish. Perhaps the organisms were stratified in the bed somehow and then liberated / tbd
this poor dude accomplishes a few things in this thread, all bad. I checked on him via message a few weeks later he’s ok so some ribbing is deserved for not listening lol. He manages the worst rip clean I’ve ever seen, by not following directions, and dang near had me thinking he was dead from his tank infection xferred to his skin. I honestly thought he may have expired in the hospital, this thread caused my blood pressure to sky rocket.
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that’s the first example I recall to begin charting the outbreak after disturbance, in a tank that ran for years without preps. * notice the new tang he added a few mos before which could very well be the culprit. I’ll find a few more examples for patterning too.
Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread
I need to to a tank swap out here in the next few weeks. same tank size just a full replacement. red sea 650P around 180ish gallons I have 2" of carib sea special grade my fav. sand. I plan to put the fish corals and LR in to a tank with HOB filter, flow heater and light for maybe (...
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your plan will work. Pre rinse the new sand for hours in tap until totally free of silt then a final rinse in salt
the rocks will for sure without doubt carry over bacteria. We have been trained to fear lack of bacteria. It never happens per above
Greg I just saw that request for the move induced disease, disturbance of scape - induced disease. I have a few standout threads
it’s not screaming out yet as a guarantee but the little proofs are slowly coming about I’m watching disease posts in the disease forum and am seeing more and more no prep systems, running fine for years, and then a sand bed disturbance or rock change breaks out something in the fish. Perhaps the organisms were stratified in the bed somehow and then liberated / tbd
this poor dude accomplishes a few things in this thread, all bad. I checked on him via message a few weeks later he’s ok so some ribbing is deserved for not listening lol. He manages the worst rip clean I’ve ever seen, by not following directions, and dang near had me thinking he was dead from his tank infection xferred to his skin. I honestly thought he may have expired in the hospital, this thread caused my blood pressure to sky rocket.
EMERGENCY - 265 reef
I need some help I have a 265 Reef that’s been up and running for 20 years About two months ago I decide to do some aqua scape with my old rocks. I took about a third of the rocks out broke them up glue them back together. Nothing was in the system it was done totally outside of the system. I...
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that’s the first example I recall to begin charting the outbreak after disturbance, in a tank that ran for years without preps. * notice the new tang he added a few mos before which could very well be the culprit. I’ll find a few more examples for patterning too.
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