For new sand we are pre rinsing silt out...not harmful, but it’s to prevent the filth clouding initially
that new sand won’t have detritus that causes mini cycles
but old sand is packed full of both components typically. We rinse old sand before combining tanks so that no waste is moved to new glass house. Once we move the old rocks over, the skip cycle happens due to the rocks primarily and the sand secondarily, that’s assumed based on the number of times in the sand rinse thread where we removed all sand from the new tank and the rocks had to carry the full bioload the sand used to share.
nobody has bothered to simply and clearly test the sand alone to see if it helps at all.
in summary, skip cycling runs our whole hobby, it happens daily.
when people move reefs from one room to another they skip cycle
when they move fifty thousand in live animals to a reef convention in a single large reef, they skip cycle. They then take unsold animals back home and skip cycle again
both the sand rinse thread and the microbiology of reef tank cycling are skip cycle logs, hundreds of jobs on file. All links are tank work to inspect. when we combine tanks or upgrade them, we clean them before reassembly and the act of cleaning causes the skipped cycle, by preventing detritus from overcoming bacteria already present.
caribsea sand has no live wiggling animals in it, so pre rinsing is ok. Regarding bacteria on sand, anyone who takes time to read the logged work can see sandbed bacteria only matter in a system where zero live rock is used...nobody has ever bothered to test if pre rinsing deactivates sand, we don’t even know if it’s active but I’ll vote it is. Someone do a test already
that new sand won’t have detritus that causes mini cycles
but old sand is packed full of both components typically. We rinse old sand before combining tanks so that no waste is moved to new glass house. Once we move the old rocks over, the skip cycle happens due to the rocks primarily and the sand secondarily, that’s assumed based on the number of times in the sand rinse thread where we removed all sand from the new tank and the rocks had to carry the full bioload the sand used to share.
nobody has bothered to simply and clearly test the sand alone to see if it helps at all.
in summary, skip cycling runs our whole hobby, it happens daily.
when people move reefs from one room to another they skip cycle
when they move fifty thousand in live animals to a reef convention in a single large reef, they skip cycle. They then take unsold animals back home and skip cycle again
both the sand rinse thread and the microbiology of reef tank cycling are skip cycle logs, hundreds of jobs on file. All links are tank work to inspect. when we combine tanks or upgrade them, we clean them before reassembly and the act of cleaning causes the skipped cycle, by preventing detritus from overcoming bacteria already present.
caribsea sand has no live wiggling animals in it, so pre rinsing is ok. Regarding bacteria on sand, anyone who takes time to read the logged work can see sandbed bacteria only matter in a system where zero live rock is used...nobody has ever bothered to test if pre rinsing deactivates sand, we don’t even know if it’s active but I’ll vote it is. Someone do a test already
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