I'd like to see this, remove everything and nothing will happen? Highly doubt that.This fact also factors in the cycling thread here: any poster in this thread can remove their entire sandbed all at once, any canister filters all at once, any sump media all at once down to bare glass and live rocks, and their system will not cycle or mini cycle even with the same fish loading all the original surface area was adapted to
removed all at once, no slow ramp down. The opposite of what the masses advise works very well due to the inherent power of live rock after the cycle
we have been doing this for 36 straight pages in the sand rinse thread, not a guess. The takeaway is that extra surface area beyond live rocks simply doesn’t matter though we’d like it to. Cycle with eight bags of floss in place, or just live rocks, the outcome is the same tank to tank. Turning off uv makes sense. Skimming won’t matter or affect the outcome in a cycling tank. Piscean cannot go wrong in any method chosen, cycles can’t stall or fail they just cycle in about ten days (usually a few days max) regardless of what brand of bottle bac is used.
just so that above doesn’t seem totally insane
Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread
Not only do I love that job, I did it in my vase :) so it’s been modeled already/ done your job is just bigger. I’m going to link a thread where nobody listens regarding aiptasia removal, apply this to your mushroom tank. the sand cleaning is already covered here / ridding newly cleaned rocks...www.reef2reef.com