Hi, I'm looking for a thread from a few years back on taking sand out of an established tank, and washing it to refresh it. I think it was written by a guy named Brandon S? Can someone help find it?
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HI, that's so nice! So what I'm looking to do is just to take out all my sand out of my 125 gallon tank and wash it all. This tank has been running for 9 years and needs a reset, so to say. My nitrates are high, and the sandbar is so dirty that I know that this is my best option right now. What is your suggestion? This is a deep sandbed BTWHey tweeter if you’d like we can run you a custom job right here/ save a long read what cha got for a sand rinse job man
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Thank you! I have to take my son to the DR in a few minutes, so I can get a pic tomorrow.I love this type of job. This is all on the line, no room for error, with bad procedure you can kill the whole reef. true tank surgery/fun/love it
I'm 100% sure we can do it safely, we have done about 200 or so large tank moves in the sand rinse thread. the key is cloudless rinsing, and not caring about the bacteria lol /ironic
(said in jest, but the truth is fearing about bacteria loss causes folks to under rinse the sand/ which leaves in clouding waste/ and can kill the new tank. by trusting that our rinse process does not remove the bacteria on rocks, the ones we care about, you can rinse thoroughly= no cloud= skip the cycle totally)
post a full tank picture here/ those give unspoken details that assist in the custom plan
post a big nice ful tank shot here and Ill write out the plan and once it's done and the pics shine like rubies/no cycle on the tank/ all animals fine we can add this whole thread to a new work example on the sand rinse thread p 60
Just curious what do you look at to see the bell turning down?I'm 100% sure we can rip clean that tank safely and it'll be pristine white sand, but I recommend we don't do it now, do it when the bell curve trends downwards
Thank you! To tell the truth, I was very concerned for my fish. The corals I know would to do fine, but the fish is another matter. And like you said, I know that it would take a long time to get it done. I'm 61, so it would be very hard for me to get this done without feeling like I'm going to die from exhaustion!And I know that it would take from daybreak , til past dark. It would be hard on this old lady, but hey, I'm tough. Anyway, you have convinced me to hold off. The main reason I was thinking to do this, was as I said the nitrates are higher than what I want, cause I can no longer keep the LPS in there that I like. But the fish are more important, so I can live with that.Excellent pics and reef. You have hit the tune everybody wants for a hands off sandbed, all they care about is no algae problems or invasion issues which you don't have and they care about strong coral growth which you have
I advise not messing with that tank or its bed in any way until you have a problem or a pending move. You're at the bell curve peak for that tank and it may last years, if this was a small nano we could easily rip clean it like a trip to dentist but this huge reef will take 25 hours to rip clean and its perfect as we see it