Agreed, consider this thread linked below to see if claimed patterns of human will stand out in the pages
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445
-we had to make a thread that gave permission to act on/against/within a sandbed and to state what the benefits would be. In the year that thread started, any action against a sandbed was deemed dangerous, counterproductive, and a potential risk to the whole system. It takes 23 pages of work to SLOWLY convince people that the advice of the 90s needs updating. that you
can access a bed to move it, transfer it, upgrade it, rip it out for cleaning if needed/all without loss. That the waste its storing at the bottom is the cause of nearly all cyano challenges in reefing, such that merely cleaning a system and not even using chemicals has collected the most cyano invasion cures of any thread I know of still running.
-look at the amount of wrecked or in-challenge tanks that present for work. They show up hesitant to act/clean/delve/de cloud and they leave confident to de cloud and clean if we're lucky, if we communicate correctly but mainly reading the works of others shows the new ways are safe. Momentum is building for cleaning, hand guiding, and NEVER letting an aquarium dictate to us what will occur but rather the other way around.
That link above is for sand rinsing, and all the invaders and associated actions that involve handling sand or setting up tanks involving sand. If you use sand in your tank, the dynamics shown there will certainly affect you one day, choose how that day will go down after seeing how other tanks presented at years 1, 2, 4 etc.
This link below is for using one of many methods to handle hair algae on your rocks. ***im not saying my ways are the best or only way*** Im saying they come with giant work thread documentation and always involve a repeating pattern of how we get these fixed up tanks without ever killing a single tank: we access fully not partially, with confidence, and we never put back together a cloudy system using sandbed filth or filth compacted inside the live rocks. By diligently handling and accounting for cloudy waste detritus, we can do any number of cleaning options to an aquarium and the tank doesn't die, or recycle, across multiple threads all with varying forms of tank surgery.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef2reef-pest-algae-challenge-thread-hydrogen-peroxide.187042/
--I resist dosing things to the water, measuring, waiting, and hoping. That is a valid science, but you'll see in my threads we don't even use parameter testing. I don't need to know what someones phosphate and nitrate read to make their tank work, I need only willing people not full of hesitation.
Large tanks aren't as accessible as our tanks are, so that water testing method really helps there and certain people are really good at balancing without having to put hands in the tank.
We are the polar opposite; if you have an accessible tank then stamp yourself lucky, that's the #1 variable required to never lose a reef tank to an invasion. We cause the uninvaded condition not by coaxing it slowly but by killing it off when it's detected. That it ever showed up in the first place is nature, these plants and animals belong on a reef-we just want unnatural ends and these threads show options on forcing compliance vs hoping.
We save money in these threads, some were on the way out.
There's no reason to lose any reef tank to an invasion...if we uncover that portion at least, then all time was spent well.
Though its another two hours read lol, if you put up with the headache of reading those posts you don't have to pay attention to my wording. Just look at how they
present in the before pics. Its always the same...some type of invasion that they allowed to take over. they tried something through the water, some nutrient tuning, first and it still took on more mass. Physical intervention is the LAST thing considered, but Im telling you it should be the first.
Im reverse engineering all these invaded challenges back to day 1...be willing to access early, happily, eagerly, if you want to have a different pathway in reefing.
What options did they have on day 1 of the invasion, when the bryopsis was literally on one easily removable plug and we could have burnt it off with a blue jet flame lighter in two seconds?
Did they have to wait till total takeover? Human TRAITS of being invaded, has nothing to do with biology ~
in my opinion its gold info to merely see what years and years of presented invasions have in common, there's fifty different ways to uninvade a tank/ I can tell you are a good pattern hunter, that peroxide thread alone has links to over 500 tanks worked between us, nano reef and reefcentral.
. If you see algae growth on the rocks you can start adding them
