Hey this is great. Those items are what tanks with totally live rock / pure skip cycle tanks are presenting and what dry rock setups are missing. If you combine that effort to seed mid level benthic animals plus hq reef feed, plus deep blue lighting from a light shown to to grow corals on example threads, plus demo’d ammonia control, that is scientifically the allowed start date.
our hobby is built on arbitrary time waits. That above is a specific start time, heck of an effort you’re doing !
once you’ve assembled all this, hand guide those rocks into compliance. Never let them beard over like when we dive mask + lake all the rocks are green whispy algae bundles
people should never do that to reefs it’s the dumbest recommend ever put in print by reefers on a daily basis. Waiting for eutrophication shift to take place at a given location in nature is years long wait for funk to self correct
but in 2020 we don’t have to follow nonsense rules. We can lift out rocks, use a knife to literally whittle cut or tip dig out growths we don’t want. Rinse, set rock back. Without jacking coral water and waiting months all passively, nowadays we can simply stock corals force the substrate to comply and be proud of our tanks always, especially to other viewers. Some use peroxide on the external occasional clean guide, because it cleans out algae and never harms filter bacteria. All kinds of cheats exist to counter purposefully wrecking ones investment as the masses certainly recommend.
the uglies phase is written, prescribed and promoted to literally 100% of all reefers without question and to question purposefully ruining our own reef tanks as the starting practice gets you flamed and publicly doubted / jibed. To this very hour it’s being prescribed in the general reef forum, it’s a hobby staple. it is the worst concept ever introduced to reefing and most of us happily promote it, without spending one hour in the invasion forums figuring out what it really takes to ensure zero loss.
in my opinion you force clean a new reef until coralline algae takes it over and now it’s all on cruise control, we start busy mode and slowly back off.
our hobby is built on arbitrary time waits. That above is a specific start time, heck of an effort you’re doing !
once you’ve assembled all this, hand guide those rocks into compliance. Never let them beard over like when we dive mask + lake all the rocks are green whispy algae bundles
people should never do that to reefs it’s the dumbest recommend ever put in print by reefers on a daily basis. Waiting for eutrophication shift to take place at a given location in nature is years long wait for funk to self correct
but in 2020 we don’t have to follow nonsense rules. We can lift out rocks, use a knife to literally whittle cut or tip dig out growths we don’t want. Rinse, set rock back. Without jacking coral water and waiting months all passively, nowadays we can simply stock corals force the substrate to comply and be proud of our tanks always, especially to other viewers. Some use peroxide on the external occasional clean guide, because it cleans out algae and never harms filter bacteria. All kinds of cheats exist to counter purposefully wrecking ones investment as the masses certainly recommend.
the uglies phase is written, prescribed and promoted to literally 100% of all reefers without question and to question purposefully ruining our own reef tanks as the starting practice gets you flamed and publicly doubted / jibed. To this very hour it’s being prescribed in the general reef forum, it’s a hobby staple. it is the worst concept ever introduced to reefing and most of us happily promote it, without spending one hour in the invasion forums figuring out what it really takes to ensure zero loss.
in my opinion you force clean a new reef until coralline algae takes it over and now it’s all on cruise control, we start busy mode and slowly back off.
