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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main summary though it can’t replace seeing nuance patterns in their example links:
-tap water made all that possible. Tap rinse your old sand, tap rinse your new sand, that’s fifty pages of the exact same set of moves on every tank though they may show up for a move, an upgrade, a sand swap, a sand removal, a cyano or dinos beat down. If you use something other than tap water, bad things happen at the rate of 1 per ten jobs but right there with tap is 200+ jobs and no examples of fail.
(Not a scare tactic= tap is limitless clean rinse. when they use ro or saltwater as the rinse they run out early, leave a cloud, and get a cycle. Tap is endless it’s why we use it)
tap water is the most important part of the whole thread and every job is the same disassemble reassemble step, absolutely does not vary job to job, the reasons for rip cleaning are what vary.
- drop the light levels in the new tank don’t run same intensity. We robbed all the organics so that your recycle can’t occur, the tradeoff is we run low lights and ramp back up slowly. Bleach prevention, feed nicely in the new tank, target feed to coax out corals they’ll transfer fine.
- dont use bottle bac or prime at any step
-your rocks are cleaned in old tank water to jet them free of waste. Your sand is blasted with tap because we don’t care about nor need to preserve sandbed bacteria in any reef tank says the fifty page thread of patterns. The world has it wrong regarding sandbed bacteria and we fixed it.
i agree we cannot beat verms they simply win. There’s medication that kills them but not in my reef, I let them stay. Don’t want the meds
