How to clear up water quickly

[john.m.cole3]

I was not aware the OP was going for a DSB

 

[Jakepen]

the way it works is by being part of giant sand cleaning threads where we reach in and grab a handful and drop it down, and no cloud results, in the sandbed rinse threads. It would remove the silt component of the unrinsed bed which is nearly all of that cloud. the cleaning is literally the only way to stop it, but since so many want the silt inclusion factor its more common to leave it in, perpetually clouding and commanding secondary removal.

http://reef2reef.com/threads/the-of...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445

any of those tanks--> wrasse it up no cloud :)

the pre rinse removes the floating lighter components and any waste, so that disturbed bed portions thereafter fall down quicker after disturbance. his burying action alone is quite the waste kicker, that's ideal to be catching in the strainer portions of the tank

I've been having excessive diatoms lately, tank is six months old. After getting rid of my yellow tang, my goby and pistol shrimp have been out a lot more, and moving mountains of sand. Which naturally kicks up a a lot of cloudiness, I'm wondering if this has been the cause of my recent diatom outbreak?

 

[brandon429]

We claim to beat diatoms in that thread by rinsing and guiding white light balances for the persistent ones thereafter (more blues if adjustable)

We see persistent diatoms get blamed for salt brand, sand brand etc but that doesn't matter to us there

 

[DracoKat]

I have a shallow sand bed- they probably thought I had deep because of my burrowing leopard wrasse. She had piled up sand in the corner so she's good with depth there!

Waters been pretty good for the last few days- I guess the floss in the return chamber of the sump helped a lot ! Either that or my wrasse got the corner cleaned pretty well lol

 

[brandon429]

Im also not opposed to the older methods of hands off sandbedding, but we are finding in the tank correction threads that when ideally balanced and ran the SB is running a waste reduction scenario but when not balanced its contributing fully to problems, so when we correct beds the tank just goes to one of the other myriad forms of nitrate control avail/

its not that all beds have to be rinsed, its that when you do liabilities stop always and the loss of denitrification was not measured in the vast majority of rinsers. very rarely was someone presenting for tank fixing who wasn't have waste issues because of the sandbed, if someone isn't having issues its ok not to rinse and see if that lucky oxic zone can be had and sustained.

we cover in that thread why remote/accessible DSB's are more ideal than ones up under piles of rock with direct waste access from fish constantly sinking in. The smaller the tank, the more pronounced the liability in this kind of traditional bed setup. The large the tank, the more dilution helps with all filtration schemes where what we measure in the top water as dissolved wastes is the meter of success.