I'm going to rinse my sand bed. Who else has done this?
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Salty, wow that’s great work
Sarcophyton
Here’s when we think it’s required to rinse: when people seek help successfully transferring tanks during home moves and when they repeatedly post in a thread for assistance on fixing cyano and diatom and in a few cases dinos. I don’t know of any thread that collects as many cyano cures in one place as the sand rinse thread, so I guess rinsing can be stated to be the top cyano cure when size of tank allows such access. Acknowledged chemi clean will get an initial kill, but we think the recurring invasions and tradeoff invasions found in chemi clean work threads are the result of leaving all the waste/fuel in the bed to just feed some other opportunist
But rinsing has such a powerful controlled outcome
If one were to make a house transfer thread that involved moving sandbeds as is, full waste inclusion, then there will be losses and recycles in the thread as pages unfold due to the varying nature of full waste systems
It’s also handy to have the skill of being able to skip cycle deep clean a system when working tank invasion threads, part of the toolbox that makes up pages of good outcome patterns. Rinsing is a core skill, work threads show.
All activities of rinsing so far here seemed positive / it’s simply a clean restart method without having to build bacteria back up, they endure all cleaning methods.
That tank right above could’ve chose to dose meds into the massed/invaded condition tank and await mass die off
But rinsing, cleaning or mass quick export -then- applying preventatives in the ideal condition means only growback mass is having to be worked, far less target in the system to remass quickly. Tank rinsing is powerful
Sarcophyton
Here’s when we think it’s required to rinse: when people seek help successfully transferring tanks during home moves and when they repeatedly post in a thread for assistance on fixing cyano and diatom and in a few cases dinos. I don’t know of any thread that collects as many cyano cures in one place as the sand rinse thread, so I guess rinsing can be stated to be the top cyano cure when size of tank allows such access. Acknowledged chemi clean will get an initial kill, but we think the recurring invasions and tradeoff invasions found in chemi clean work threads are the result of leaving all the waste/fuel in the bed to just feed some other opportunist
But rinsing has such a powerful controlled outcome
If one were to make a house transfer thread that involved moving sandbeds as is, full waste inclusion, then there will be losses and recycles in the thread as pages unfold due to the varying nature of full waste systems
It’s also handy to have the skill of being able to skip cycle deep clean a system when working tank invasion threads, part of the toolbox that makes up pages of good outcome patterns. Rinsing is a core skill, work threads show.
All activities of rinsing so far here seemed positive / it’s simply a clean restart method without having to build bacteria back up, they endure all cleaning methods.
That tank right above could’ve chose to dose meds into the massed/invaded condition tank and await mass die off
But rinsing, cleaning or mass quick export -then- applying preventatives in the ideal condition means only growback mass is having to be worked, far less target in the system to remass quickly. Tank rinsing is powerful
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I’m going to post about my insane obsession, which is vacuuming the surface of my sand to pull up detritus, and then rinsing the sand in SW, curing it like live rock, and putting it back a month or so later. Just did it for first time and nothing has died; no dire consequences. Just a top layer of clean sand.
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I rinsed my Fiji pink. Went thru @brandon429 thread and liked it. I pulled gravel and put in the sand. I rinsed the heck out of the sand. Now I use a Kent long handled scraper to stir the bed once week. Clouds of poop and food float up but I see the sand fall right back to the bottom
I do that and clean the glass every so often . Then my water change is just that. I drop a hose to suck out water. Then I attach the hose to a mag pump in the brute to refill. All done, no mess, sat on the couch watching it drain and refill
I do that and clean the glass every so often . Then my water change is just that. I drop a hose to suck out water. Then I attach the hose to a mag pump in the brute to refill. All done, no mess, sat on the couch watching it drain and refill
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