What's your favorite R2R thread for advanced reefing education?

[Koleswrath]

I've read a lot of threads over the years (seemingly always at work ) but I still come across some that blow my preconceptions out the door and open up whole new methods of tank husbandry or even some that contain small gems of info that I've found I can implement in my tank for the better. I'll start this one off with the most recent one I've been reading.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/do-we-need-nitrate-in-a-reef-tank.976904/
Excellent info on nitrate and higher forms of nitrogen along with a huge amount of links to other threads and studies on the subject.

Let's hear some of your favorite in depth discussions that have really affected how you go about reefing!

 

[brandon429]

How to cycle any reef tank without any testing and get an exact start date vs open- ended wait:

How to unstick any seemingly stuck cycle

non digital ammonia test kit readings make you think you aren’t cycled when indeed you are if you owned a $200 expensive seneye meter, you’d never be doubting your cycle status, since .01% of the reefing population owns these, we need a way to help the majority understand when they’re cycled...

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=the first testless cycling reef tank thread.

How to transfer or upgrade or move any reef tank without ever causing a cycle or a mini cycle using no bottle bac and no testing at all. 200+ jobs worked start to finish:

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

The best way to prepare your sand for use in a transferred reef tank, an upgraded reef tank, a reef tank under invasion etc is to put the sand in sections in a bucket and TAP WATER rinse it outside over and over with the garden hose until all the silt / waste is ejected, expect hours of work per...

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[Koleswrath]

Perfect addition right at the start!

 

[brandon429]

From the chemistry forum:

Does Prime actually "Detoxify" free ammonia, NH3?

This started when @Dan_P was looking at measuring NH3 with seneye and was curious about performance near zero NH3. I suggested trying Prime to artificially zero out the NH3 sensor, and the results were weird... so I checked with my seachem kit. Prime by Seachem is commonly used to treat tap...

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Prime, from seachem, staple in the hobby for over twenty years, is proven to be ineffective and a marketing gimmick the entire time

Read the article to see what the real protective mechanism was, in cases we thought was handled by prime

 

[Koleswrath]

How to transfer or upgrade or move any reef tank without ever causing a cycle or a mini cycle using no bottle bac and no testing at all. 200+ jobs worked start to finish:

I only made it to page 30 or so on this one but you convinced me and I effectively RIP cleaned my 4 month old tank to a sparkle last month after ridding myself of Ostreopsis dinoflagellates. Exported all that dead mass out and shifted the balance in my tank from hair algae to coralline and easily scrapeable film algae. Still doing amazing.

 

[brandon429]

I wish I knew a less brutish way to earn all those clean after pics. I do not lol

am willing to cheat my tank clean for years to come until someone figures out a way to not need the rip cleans

*I would like to see that thread across 200 jobs

 

[Dburr1014]

I've read a lot of threads over the years (seemingly always at work ) but I still come across some that blow my preconceptions out the door and open up whole new methods of tank husbandry or even some that contain small gems of info that I've found I can implement in my tank for the better. I'll start this one off with the most recent one I've been reading.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/do-we-need-nitrate-in-a-reef-tank.976904/
Excellent info on nitrate and higher forms of nitrogen along with a huge amount of links to other threads and studies on the subject.

Let's hear some of your favorite in depth discussions that have really affected how you go about reefing!

Yep, read that one.
I've been on a Kick about anything to do with nitrates and phosphates. And every one of them sixties_reefer has been on them. So much to learn.