Reset advice?

authentic · Dec 20, 2023

My tank is about 8 years old and over time has grown into a reeflike structure as colonies have died with new colonies growing on top.tank is now full and I'm thinking of a reset,a long time ago I broke down a cube and the detritus that was kicked up killed my few fish in the tank.looking to avoid the pitfalls and get advice from people that have done it.i have a 30 gal frag tank connected to the DT so I have a place to temporarily house the colonies I'd like to keep and sell the ones I dont.all information appreciated

kevgib67 · Dec 20, 2023

Bump!

authentic · Dec 21, 2023

brandon429 · Dec 21, 2023

I always liked to call these rip cleans to to t-off the establishment

Because thinking ammonia- controlling bacteria in reefing are weak leads to untruth and dependence on bottle bac salesmen to feel good about reefing

saying that you've ripped into a reef tank really bothers them, the boundary setters

Shows bottle bac salesmen we didn't need them to reef just as don't need an aquabiomics test to manage our bacteria

Force in export manages our bacteria we show, the slicks that remain behind after a deep cleaning to remove dangerous detritus waste in the sandbed are always enough

Revealing the true boundaries of care has benefits to reefing

200 works:

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

it’s not really a reset, because we don’t have to recycle your tank. The original cycle holds, reef tank surgery to remove deadly detritus is what we did there.

every job, for eight years, is the same set of actions in the same order

some do rip cleans so they can move to new homes with no loss

some do them for dinos battles, to win

some do them for tank upgrades so the transfer won’t kill fish

but the order of ops are all the same for every job that’s key.

the thread shows you how to tap water rinse your sandbed back to total clarity

how to hold fish and corals in totes

how to rasp rocks clean of algae and unwanted attachments

the reassembly steps

there is no testing for any parameter other than temp and salinity

then they do the important light power drop and re acclimation in the new tank, done.
take a couple days to read specific job links we did there

take pics of your tank so we can add those to the example set

the absolute undeniable linking factor in all those jobs is we rinsed the tank substrate so well to produce total cloudlessness, and that aligned all tanks for safety. whether they're moving, upgrading, or getting uninvaded.

we simply took reefs apart, and reassembled them without any detritus. what you can do with a tank during that interim takedown/set back up time are the moves, upgrades and cleanings

Dom · Dec 21, 2023

authentic said:
My tank is about 8 years old and over time has grown into a reeflike structure as colonies have died with new colonies growing on top.tank is now full and I'm thinking of a reset,a long time ago I broke down a cube and the detritus that was kicked up killed my few fish in the tank.looking to avoid the pitfalls and get advice from people that have done it.i have a 30 gal frag tank connected to the DT so I have a place to temporarily house the colonies I'd like to keep and sell the ones I dont.all information appreciated

I recently did a reset on my 125 gallon, because of bad chemistry (I was trying to dose elements instead of doing water changes). I made a real mess of things.

My corals weren't dead but they were looking very unhappy! And since the reset (its been 104 days), the tank is much improved in its appearance; corals are very happy.

I would want to separate the tank you are redoing from everything else. Then reconnect it back to the rest of your system.

Following along!

Dom