A brave first rip clean, stop a bac bloom dead in its tracks in a nano reef. Impressive. This is pre update. The tank will either look great in five days or it won't, time will tell and thanks for participating Lorekeeper
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacterial-bloom.413320/#post-4868860
The specific biology on this eutrophication arrest:
Initial loss of anemone and in-tank degradation commands oxygen level use well above steady state, and it fuels opportunistic reducing organisms to feed on the organic matter which in turn pumps out metabolic waste fueling one or more bloomed organisms...the tank is bare bottom and relies heavily on live rock to keep fish ammonia, and feed ammonia, under control. Blanketing organisms reduce live rock surface area, and begin dieoff of its microfauna, though actual base filtration bacteria will never be affected by any sort of death or invasion in the tank...they'll actually bloom in numbers using the wastes of reducing bacteria in proximity as feed.
Since the keeper was willing to both export degrading mass and its metabolite-laden bioloaded water immediately, the live rock microfauna base is preserved and more importantly porosity is restored, we can see coralline heavy rock, ideal to plant corals
We used skip cycle biology to -access- the tank and not lose any filtration bacteria of significance.
Within one hour a weeks long succession of events was simply taken, without hesitation. Any follow up water changes to guide out regrowth, should one off run not cure, are now over cloudless substrata and any water changes will be aerating, refreshing events and not a storm cloud of detritus+organic mass+hangers on
Oxygenation was restored here, and metabolite loading reduced to safe levels without hesitation, not by something we dosed, but by something we removed--->key beneficial human trait for arresting a eutrophic reef aquarium.
Rip cleaning can make any nano reef have a biologically limitless, zero invasion lifespan says this example and the next twenty coming pages.
some aquariums don't respond to one offs. We are having to work hard on BCarl77 reef as the rocks are expressing some re growth of cyano, so continual hand guiding on a cloudless base at least makes the work much less than the initial invasion sequence. The invasion moved away from the sandbed after it was cleaned, now we are working on rock guiding. The fact Lorekeeper mainly had organic waste to remove vs an actual invader really helps their prognosis on the tank in my opinion and BCarl's invader is showing response to lights out testing anyway...looks like we are weakening it, such a mean strain he's got.
Another excellent documentation for a big skip cycle tank move: Paul B’s oldest reef in the home kept/moved successfully. Paul analyses pent up detritus here, but make the distinction this isn't Berlin method sandbed detritus which is poison basically in oligotrophic systems... He's featuring -highly aerated and turned over- detritus concentrate from up under a REVERSE undergravel filter, this is completely different from every tank's detritus in this thread which can kill a moved reef if not factored correctly.
Highly oxidized detritus is much less potent because aerobic digesting bacteria have already had full run at its nutrient stores. The oxygen zonation and variation within Berlin/non aerated sandbeds cause proteins in detritus to break down much slower and with metabolic variations including the sulfides etc. You don't get that phase of accumulation/risk release of death gasses when proteins are aerobically/quickly broken down like RUGF does.
He used an ordered set of steps to move the system and he works with detritus that we export in a neat way, it's great to feature his style of reefing where detritus is of no concern and actually food in his system.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/moving-47-year-old-reef-60-miles-omg.407827/
