Thank you for posting that sweep shot that is such a good follow up, I didn't get any alerts somehow. That is so dang clean, it's spot on what we need here, so that our work method stands out from the others.
We need after videos just like that to keep us unique in the business of handling transferred reef tanks.
Your tank caused me this reflection:
That aquascape ties into advanced cycling dynamics and things mentioned prior as ideal long term stable reef design
I just noticed when I put your video at full screen this final assembly makes your tank stronger in ways that are fun to discuss.
That's a reduced surface area aquascape. Part of the new wave of reefing. Benefits: less surface area to grab and retain detritus
lives longer in power outage, under max stress conditions (no circulation) than any other reef with a stacked wall and the bragable I haven't touched it in fifteen years deep sand bed (what the masses strive for)
these classic tanks over present unneeded waste + bacterial mass as a direct oxygen competitor to fish in the + stress, stilled condition power outage reef tank. They're producing waste gas, the bacteria en masse are the first to die in high surface area filters, sandbeds, and rock stacks piled in.
we make our living here literally ripping as much bacteria as we can out of reef tanks. We did opposite from the masses, results are logged. we do this to strengthen reef tanks in a world where the man says we must add his diversity products and pay for dna testing to get reliable results.
no. When we all trade corals and fish, that's your biodiversity cross transfer. It isn't from the bottle required, sales trick.
we remove sloughage here and let the natural imports win the space. Rip cleaning is back flushing is filter self maintenance in aquatic systems.
Live rock stacks taking up 98% of the display, ala 1999 method, works but also becomes an access nightmare should detailing be required (such as manually removing invasive macro if needed, or algae destined to grow on the white part of the newer rock)
I can convey with certainty: most of that reasoning to stack 98% of space as live rock was the dated belief that reef tanks were teetering on the edge of balance, with the slightest limitation in bacteria resulting in a crash. We now know that isn't true.
Your tank is nearly immune to gha now due to that *scape* notice I didn't say any test kit level. This whole thread is algae free, we fix algae tanks, and we've never discussed nitrate or phosphate. Opposite of the masses.
Your tank is immune because if some sprouted on the rocks, we wouldn't mess with your water params (look how well the corals are growing)
No, you can lift that rock out totally and set it on the counter and freddy kruger it with metal kitchen implements, no algae tuft can beat that. And as you lifted and set rock: no dirt cloud took over. You had snowglobe sand grains that fall back down, we knew during prep verification before the move.
You've strengthened your tank, wanted to give matching feedback in appreciation for you posting here.
My update one week in: the fungiid has opened eight times It's normal size, I've never seen this in eight years, I'm actually concerned for my war coral lol which was the prior king. Even my other green brain from 2012 is about 4x normal and he's trying to reach the fungiid. There's a prison riot in my vase
The fungiid wants to *fight* dang.
And then two days after that battle they settled down. It was chest bumping. No kills.
