120 gallon rip clean

[CoralClasher]

If you have Dino problem and thinking 100% water changes are going to solve this problem you are most likely wrong. I did have a pretty good Dino bloom three weeks after. Things looked really good the first two weeks and I started feeding amino acids and coral foods. So I don’t know if it was the water change or coral food.
I just got an ICP test and another bacteria test. I’m planning the next rip clean now. Depending on the ICP test I might not use any new water.

 

[brandon429]

Hey can we see updated tank shot

 

[CoralClasher]

When I get home I’ll take some full tank shots

 

[brandon429]

The coralline and purple hues, so important to overall visuals and function are so prominent. They’ve adapted well to surging work in the reef there

 

[CoralClasher]

The coralline and purple hues, so important to overall visuals and function are so prominent. They’ve adapted well to surging work in the reef there

On the note of coralline algae. The first rip clean I did I removed all coralline. By the time I did the second rip clean the coralline was growing very good. Since the second rip clean coralline slowed dramatically. I can still see where I pulled the top 30 gallons for the QT tanks.

 

[CoralClasher]

And I had the master light burn out white LED’s again. I sent it in for repair and when I got it back the end plate was bent and the toggle switch isn’t working so I can’t adjust my slave unit at all. Sorry for the blue pictures.

 

[CoralClasher]

Ok here are some pictures with the slave unplugged and just white lights.

 

[brandon429]

A neat way to see coralline rebounding is that in the few mos of these rip cleans, if it was truly killing coralline the tank would be white like base rock. Conversely, it takes longer than a few mos to turn base rock into that gold above were there no living coralline

coralline will lighten up when we use peroxide (non oxydator, direct peroxide) in various ways on other threads but it’s basal layer must remain as these quick rebounds are patterned across tanks that have coralline

looks great!

 

[revhtree]

Looking good!

 

[CoralClasher]

Do large water changes cause dinos? that’s another legit question people want to know


it seems fitting to study one of the busiest 120 gallon setups in reefing for an answer, not just a 120 gallon on a forum post that changed 80 gallons and got dinos.

I’m willing to experiment this question. I still have the 55 gallon tank running that I setup for the first rip clean.

 

[brandon429]

Im happily watching, you have such good test gear my gosh. reefbuilders needs to pick up on your work and do some layouts. watching. like mythbusters, you try and cause dino on purpose there is that right



someone mails you a vial of the meanest stuff we have in forums, labeled this on the box laid on your doorstep: biohazard. warning. highly invasive dinoflagellate samples do not open without proper containment

 

[CoralClasher]

Ok this will be part one of the experiment 100% water change with a tank that has had Dino and probably still does just not noticeable at all. This 55 gallon tank was setup around January 10th this year and held the rocks and corals from my 120 while I performed my first rip clean. So it’s been running for 6 months with just freshwater Molly’s in saltwater. I did one five gallon water change three months ago. My plan is to repeat my first rip clean but first I’m going to get the 55 ready with new water to hold the rocks and corals again.

 

[CoralClasher]

To prepare the water for the 55 gallon tank I mixed up 60 gallons of RODI and Tropic Marin pro-reef. I took 5 gallons of tank water from the bottom of the roller mat filter on my 120 DT and some phytoplankton that I have growing outside. Now I’m going to wait till the new water turns green outside and perform the 100% water change on the 55 gallon tank with green water hopefully turning the 55 gallon tank into a bug tank before I perform the rip clean on the 120 DT.

 

[CoralClasher]

Do large water changes cause dinos? that’s another legit question people want to know


it seems fitting to study one of the busiest 120 gallon setups in reefing for an answer, not just a 120 gallon on a forum post that changed 80 gallons and got dinos.

How soon after large water changes do people see Dino bloom?

 

[CoralClasher]

So far I can’t see any Dino in the new water I mixed up.

 

[CoralClasher]

Definitely turning green

 

[CoralClasher]

Ok part 2 of experiment 1. Five days in the sun I was hoping for darker green but this should be a good start of a bug tank.

 

[CoralClasher]

The Molly made it through the night.

 

[CoralClasher]

ICP test from 120 DT looking pretty good?

 

[brandon429]

They're more handy vs applicable in my opinion, here's why. If you posted measures that said something was really bad/off, but your tank still looked and functions great, we'd be attributing something bad to the thorough nature of the rip clean. we merely got lucky here that no red flags are going off

we can find hundreds, and hundreds of icp tests on perfectly working systems that claim an imbalance, and nothing is wrong, and the test begins pure param chasing.

I think things are going well because they look, smell and feel like they're going well macro acceptance! I dont know anything about chemistry. But in reading the chem forum Randy is skeptical of ICP application (not as a way to measure, but context changes tank to tank seem to affect cause effect) so Im more interested in what they measure, but wouldnt be swayed by it.

Even if you got a bad report I'd be digging in heels to hold course and trust the macro feedback from systemic microdetails. In this case it does look pretty streamlined, you dont have tin in the uber red zone lol