Tank Refresh Questions

[Thunderrap]

So I've been going back and forth in my brain on how to go about redoing my tank. It's been running for about 2 years now and it's my first reef. While I generally love the scape and I actually plan to use it just kinda do a rearrange. I'm running into the problem of how to best go about that. Here is what I'm planning to do and if anyone has any tips or suggestions or reasons why what I'm thinking is a bad idea please let me know.

I'm gonna start by moving the current aqua scape (corals and all) and CUC over to a 10 gal holding tank. once that's all out I'm going to remove the current sand bed, scrub the walls to remove any algae or buildup. Then I'm going to replace the sand with new sand (or would it be better to use the same sand)? I'm going to scrub the rocks I have to remove some bubble algae and remove any other gunk that I might have let build up on there and then put it back in with a better layout. More than likely when I do this I'll frag the large Duncan and frogspawn colony I have and trade it to my LFS for some credit and kinda start fresh but with the established rock and all that I have. Probably going to do different fish as well cause the royal gramma and clowns that are in there will not let me put any other fish and I kinda want to do something different there.

 

[MDAquatics]

Im hesitant to say thats its a great idea but im also hesitant to say its bad.
If I were you I would go a different route. I would start completely new using rock or bio from your current build to seed your new build.
If you don't have one, you can get a large media brick and put it in your tank now to start seeding it while you plan your new setup.

 

[brandon429]

here is nine years of solely that job done in reef tanks ranging 1 gallon/mine/ to 250 gallon sps reef worth twenty grand

this is the sand rinse thread/tank upgrade thread. no losses this whole time due to the pre rinse. that original setup description is pretty much exactly what every job is below, nice intuit.

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

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...

www.reef2reef.com

notice the whole time: no testing for ammonia or cycling, cycles do what we tell them to, no need to test.


notice: no bottle bac used. we moved over the right bacteria to each new tank (the old tank's rocks, after cleaning)

the grand takeaway: we were trained backwards of the truth.


rip cleans are a cheat to agelessness in your tank, infinite biological lifespan. all the eutrophic/age-crashed reefs we can find were waste-storers. rip cleaned tanks live forever, says gandalf the fishbowl reef he he

whether you buy new sand or use old sand doesn't matter, you'd pre rinse both methods regardless. that's what's in the big proof thread, it always works.

you will learn after running this method a cheat that can save your reef from dinos etc, this is crucial reef tank cpr to know. rip cleans are good for every reef, refreshing, because they remove excess bacterial substrate from the tank that is not useful. that's why post rip clean, all nine year's worth of tanks there have corals so popped so standing out it looks lke a brand new setup

 

[brandon429]

what we see above is this:


is rinsing established, aged reef tank substrate out with tap water a good or bad idea? (what would pollees say to that question if that thread didn't exist: are you crazy)


we see the irony of what work threads can show-> that which sounds crazy at first might just be the hidden trick to the oldest longest reef tank lifespan ability considering the number of tanks saved there and no alternate tank relocation thread on the internet to double check with.

what seems like would put a reef tank on edge of dying actually makes it strong, that's the hidden trick.

you can rip clean a perfectly-running safe and happy reef tank (home moves are often aged/quality tanks they don't want to lose we can see) and it's just as happy a few hours later: rip cleans are regenerative, waste-ejecting, highly oxygenating events.


the reverse of what the masses thought about reef tank sandbeds is apparently true

I run that thread like reef sandbeds are an ongoing tax that tanks tolerate like bioload we don't get to enjoy... which is opposite of what we were told in 2001 about reef tank sandbeds

reefs like clean sandbeds, they tolerate old sandbeds as an oxygen/waste acid/co2-generating source of crud.

and some worms.

to be temporarily free of bio tax, i.e. the post rip-clean condition where every animal is at max perk we show, is enjoyed by every reef because you can up your feeding rates right at the cleanest point without bringing on invasions.

we can make use of a waste free tank by running more clean protein through the new system to corals more than we could feed the pre rip cleaned tank full of waste. to aggressively feed then would have caused dinos, or algae, or cyano breakdowns.