The species doesn't factor in handling and remediation. If it was a spirulina vs a cyano vs an algae it doesn't change the fifty different ways people choose to approach that
But I can relay something that does factor from the perspective of nano keeping
Your sandbed is approaching getting full and any number of capitalizing organisms will make use of the extra food substrate
Species won't matter because left in place the waste will just feed another round from a different species capitalist.
If you want total control over your nano you need to not model it off nanos that live an average 3-5 years before eutrophication crash
Run it in the way that makes nano reefs live twenty years without crashing: learn how to rip clean it every few years
Which is: taking it apart, cleaning or replacing the sand outside the tank, all rocks cleaned while animals are held elsewhere
Then it's all reassembled cleanly with no additives at all. No prime, no bottle bac, no testing. Skip cycle means it goes back clean running instantly. Whatever that is will be gone
And it's food more importantly would be gone
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Want to know why there aren't ten nano reefs on the site that are twenty years old
Because they won't listen :)
the masses teach each other the low lifespan method which is storage heavy + favors eutrophic conditions after a mere few years-》 threads on repeat show.
Here's one thread of three hundred showing a rip clean. It's one move, for most fix needs in reefing.
Hello, I am gonna go ahead and start my Build Thread. As of the start of this post this tank has been up for around 7 months. It is a Fluval Evo 13.5 AIO Tank. This is my first saltwater tank. So I am learning as I go. I decided to set up the fish tank on my desk next to my computer (Picture...
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In this case, it's a rip clean for the purpose of changing sand bed to a new one without cycling. All steps are the same.
Run that in your tank. Rinse your existing sand in the way we prepped his new sand.
In your case we'd follow those steps but instead of replacing your sand just do the tap rinse until it's clean. It'll take you two straight hours to clean it, which is why leaving that gray rot in the top substrate layer is hyper- aging your reef tank. Next comes heavy gha but not if you learn to rip clean. it will smell bad; it's bad rot for your reef to force endure. They don't like it.
Final highlights: at no time is a rip clean stressful. The pre rip clean condition is stressful. To be waste free and in bright clean new water (the post rip clean condition) with zero invasions and high feed input is good for all corals.
Do one before you age it further
But study a few before running. This is reef tank surgery you need to be prepared.
This resets the tanks age by removing all the waste. A rip clean is a jedi move.
