Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

[Aqua Man]

New dry sand right from bag and into bucket of water.

so glad I rinsed the sand before putting into the tank!! Took 2 hrs to rinse out to mosty clear.

see the tag? Pre-washed and minimum rinse required!!!? Lol

 

[brandon429]

100% excellent info. I have seen few diapers dirtier.

those that invent truly rinseless sand that also wont settle during holding, and remain rinseless for users, can do the dr evil pose they'll get one million dollars. plus a mil in street cred. I redid the averaging for how many $ in tank transfers we're moved without recycles and I honestly think its 2 million dollars worth. ill find the link where folks appraised their reef tanks, add up a couple pages of input to get an avg rough cost per page and then multiply that approximation by our 44 pages. its two mil lol. sick.

ESTIMATE TOTAL COST OF YOUR REEF TANK!

I Wanna hear your ballpark figures on how much you think you've spent on your reef tank so far. Don't tell the wives........ including livestock!

www.reef2reef.com

not saying its 100% accurate but its at least based on some summary data from that link. folks spend heftily on these rascals Im sure my reefbowl/ 1 gallon has seen five grand over its course in various supports, updates, frags etc. new sand etc

 

[Aqua Man]

Before moving, cyano would not go away

Tank has up and running barely over a year. Fine sand was a pain to vacuum. So I needed to move the tank, might as well change out the sand at the same time!

That’s better!

done! New sand in established tank. All coral looking great! Fish still swimming.

 

[brandon429]

Aqua man thank you so so much for that compilation it’s just sharp as a razor man

 

[Aqua Man]

For sure! So much misinformation around this hobby. Thank you for blazing the trail!!

 

[brandon429]

Here’s my basic summary

crowd to the invaded: you can’t rinse your sand to help fight cyano, that causes recycles. It’s over reaction, mean, harsh. Bad. Kills.

oh yea? What if we trick the system by preparing it for a move which we know will work fine but right at the last moment we set it right back up where it sat vs move it. We literally trick the aquarium into not dying with a move prep psych out like a behind the back


crowd: it will still die.

 

[brandon429]

Should I clean my sand?

I recently bought a new 13.5 nano tank and forgot to rinse the live sand before adding it. The tank does settle and becomes clear, and once and a while I’ll stir it up in the tank to get the filter to clean what it can. I’m wanting to know if I have to take all the sand out and rinse it, or if...

www.reef2reef.com

team on that post, they're all staunchly against pre rinsing or any aspect of rinsing. its handy to track methods that use alternate means.


for contrast we ripped the entire sandbed instantly out of this reef, not putting it back till the invasion is controlled, then rinsed sand is going back in, hows tank looking

Algae/Cyano Issue Not Improving, Help Please?

Hi all, I have a Red Sea Reefer 250 that has been up and running for 8 months now. My issue is a strange black algae\cyano growth that has plagued me for the last two months+. I have been treating as follows: cleaning gravel twice weekly 20% water changes twice a week Addition of beneficial...

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[Dryanimtt]

Starting a rip clean today on my 13g nano. Tank has been up for nearly 2 years now. Was doing good for a long time but I have dinos now and they just won't go away. So I'm taking everything out of the tank and cleaning everything. And I might add a little sand after rinsing but I might just go bare. In its state of sadness right now.

 

[brandon429]

Thank you very much for posting we need the dinos work examples. Can you message me before pics curious if any details stand out.

this method is completely applicable in your case, a nano is easy to handle and rinse out correctly plus we are merely doing the steps we would be doing in a normal reef if they simply wanted to move homes. We’d still blast the sand back to new, nuclear style, and we’d rinse all their rocks in clean saltwater to jet off mass or detritus, same. We would go easy on the bright lights after re assembly, ramp them up slowly like new leds to avoid burns, and lastly any pop up dinos are spot siphoned out. No re massing allowed

with cyano you’d have a 90% chance one pass fixes it with no touch ups


but with dinos its about 70%, I expect some light remass attempts but now they don’t dominate, a little remass was leftover attachment cells doing their thing, understandable for the strongest invader in reefing. I do not think it can win, owning a nano means power over all invaders, that’s the rule of accessibility. Inaccessible tanks must struggle, we don’t.

 

[Dryanimtt]

Thank you very much for posting we need the dinos work examples. Can you message me before pics curious if any details stand out.

this method is completely applicable in your case, a nano is easy to handle and rinse out correctly plus we are merely doing the steps we would be doing in a normal reef if they simply wanted to move homes. We’d still blast the sand back to new, nuclear style, and we’d rinse all their rocks in clean saltwater to jet off mass or detritus, same. We would go easy on the bright lights after re assembly, ramp them up slowly like new leds to avoid burns, and lastly any pop up dinos are spot siphoned out. No re massing allowed

with cyano you’d have a 90% chance one pass fixes it with no touch ups


but with dinos its about 70%, I expect some light remass attempts but now they don’t dominate, a little remass was leftover attachment cells doing their thing, understandable for the strongest invader in reefing. I do not think it can win, owning a nano means power over all invaders, that’s the rule of accessibility. Inaccessible tanks must struggle, we don’t.

Yeah I was trying to upload the photos but said they were too big. Trying to resize and post. But yeah the dinos are part of the reason but it's my sand bed which I think is giving me so many issues. I don't think this will cure dinos but getting that sand out and cleaning everything up will certainly aid in getting rid of them.

 

[Dryanimtt]

Nothing is happy and most of the corals are all closed up. I've already removed some coral to my bigger tank prior to this, as they were dying.

 

[brandon429]

My goodness that tanks looks older and larger than it is, what rock you have with coralline? Rare. I can barely see any dinos but I know in person you hate it, I would as well. You’re acting well before full on invasion, that’s so nice.

 

[brandon429]

Are you dosing two part or kalk to get that coralline mines all died out over time

 

[Dryanimtt]

Are you dosing two part or kalk to get that coralline mines all died out over time

I use Kalk, its amazing

 

[Dryanimtt]

Some more pics as I was in progress. But the dinos were bad , I just had to lower the quality of the photo by alot. And this was dry marco rock when it started, btw.

 

[Dryanimtt]

Starting a clean slate. Still working on it

 

[Dryanimtt]

And back together again. I'll report back in a week or so to let y'all know how it's doing. Still haven't decided if I want to put a little bit of sand back in it

 

[brandon429]

Wonderful, did you lower light intensity back down for a bit


that surgical work above is excellent, excellent

 

[Dryanimtt]

Update: dinos are gone, no sign of them anymore. All corals are opening back up. So far so good.

 

[brandon429]

My goodness thank you so much for detailed tracking and updates, thats gold for another challenge tank to reference one day