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Ok, went on vacation two weeks ago and came back after being gone two week to my tank covered in diatoms. No clue what happened but I instantly cleaned the glass and did a huge water change. I’m now showing my phosphates at 2.5 which is as high as the Hannah will go and my nitrates at 40. I put all the food out for the person to feed while I was gone. The weird thing is it all seems to be doing fine except my SPS which is now brown. Oh and the constant rust crap on the glass and algae on the rocks. What do I do to get this down ASAP?
 

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Most likely the person dumped to much food in the tank. It is always wise to portion out the meals for each day if your depending on another person.
It would take a lot of water changes to get the phos level down! So follow the advice about GFO and do some more water changes to deal with the nitrates.
 
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Most likely the person dumped to much food in the tank. It is always wise to portion out the meals for each day if your depending on another person.
It would take a lot of water changes to get the phos level down! So follow the advice about GFO and do some more water changes to deal with the nitrates.
I did separate the food into daily portions since I only feed them once daily. I have seachem phosguard in there. I have been doing water changes. Should I do a huge like 90% or what?
 

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Rip clean the whole system, sandbed too, complete water change/ back to new

If I posted a 30 page thread of this work would you check it out or no
 

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Excellent. I only ask because the initial offer seems so crazy most disregard it immediately

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Why r u reefing at 3 am I'm an old man who wakes up this early what's your excuse lol

Here we go: five years of rip cleans in one thread, disassembly cleaning, with no recycles:
 

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The reason it doesn't recycle is due to the careful takedown and reassembly steps we use. All tanks come out sparkling clean

after work, your params match the bag of salt used, and no more invasion exists, and the sandbed has no more waste fueling it all.

rip cleaning is good for reefs, even ones not under invasion...first thread example linked is a 120 gallon reef worth about six grand rip cleaned twice, to show safety. The tank was in perfect condition before the event.
 
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The reason it doesn't recycle is due to the careful takedown and reassembly steps we use. All tanks come out sparkling clean

after work, your params match the bag of salt used, and no more invasion exists, and the sandbed has no more waste fueling it all.

rip cleaning is good for reefs, even ones not under invasion...first thread example linked is a 120 gallon reef worth about six grand rip cleaned twice, to show safety. The tank was in perfect condition before the event.
So it’s saying rinse carabsea that’s live. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
 

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we have to base answers (and questions) off the thread


where did you read in there that rinsing is antibacterial


did you see before and after pics / read a couple pages of the results to arrive at that concern
 
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we have to base answers (and questions) off the thread


where did you read in there that rinsing is antibacterial


did you see before and after pics / read a couple pages of the results to arrive at that concern
I’m lost. That’s not what I asked. In some places it says rinse carabsea and at the same time it says don’t rinse live sand.
 

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That’s fair it is confusing.

that giant thread sets all new rules for sandbed care and rinsing, all the old info is wrong / i know thats a brash claim, but by page ten we’ve got patterns secured to prove it, then twenty more pages. What I recommended initially is totally explained page one.

if you want to leave your tank as is, you can. If you want it rip cleaned there is the theory and practice right there with 5 yrs of work, before and after pics, it’s safe.
 
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Anyone thing getting a media reactor and some GFO to run through it would be a good solution to this?
 
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