Ok team here it is
for participants who want to test advice to not rinse your sandbed when adding sand to a new tank
or swapping entire reef systems into new setups without any degree of old sandbed cleaning, this is the thread. Every action logged here will be completely unrinsed sand activity
in contrast to:
study that thread before you make a choice to post here. Did we get 58 pages lucking things, or are strict controls in place that you can discern from reading?
If determined to still skip rinsing we want those outcomes patterned here, please add all jobs here where you had the choice to pre rinse your sandbed for a given job but did not.
Non Rinse proponents exist for all aspects of sandbed question posts...for example, search out threads where folks want to add new sand into a tank. The universal recommend is don't pre rinse, the cloud will go away overnite.
or moving homes
you can see people above use up hundreds of collective gallons of tap water pre rinsing old, gunked up sandbeds back to brand new status so there can't be any cycles. It wastes a lot of water if we are just able to bypass the rinse step altogether, test those outcomes here.
The next time someone takes their tank apart to clean out rocks full of algae, put it all back together without rinsing sand so we can track outcomes
*disclaimer
the risk is loss of your investment if it doesnt work, and the gain is you get a skip cycle job done without having to make any rinse effort.
This thread here is for anyone willing to put their tank on the line to forge a simpler path.
Ok go, I'll keep this bumped for the next nine years, or paste it as an alternative into upcoming transfer threads, home moves, sand swaps, let's see who wants their stuff on the line for an easy no work mode.
Anything you do to a reef tank sandbed unrinsed we need that logged here for outcome tracking
for participants who want to test advice to not rinse your sandbed when adding sand to a new tank
or swapping entire reef systems into new setups without any degree of old sandbed cleaning, this is the thread. Every action logged here will be completely unrinsed sand activity
in contrast to:
Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread
How much water are you planning to save from your current system? You could use a power head and blast all the holes in your current rock as you remove them from the 40B. Then a swish/rinse in clean water. Good ideas like this are why I come here. I wasn’t planning on using any of the water...
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study that thread before you make a choice to post here. Did we get 58 pages lucking things, or are strict controls in place that you can discern from reading?
If determined to still skip rinsing we want those outcomes patterned here, please add all jobs here where you had the choice to pre rinse your sandbed for a given job but did not.
Non Rinse proponents exist for all aspects of sandbed question posts...for example, search out threads where folks want to add new sand into a tank. The universal recommend is don't pre rinse, the cloud will go away overnite.
or moving homes
you can see people above use up hundreds of collective gallons of tap water pre rinsing old, gunked up sandbeds back to brand new status so there can't be any cycles. It wastes a lot of water if we are just able to bypass the rinse step altogether, test those outcomes here.
The next time someone takes their tank apart to clean out rocks full of algae, put it all back together without rinsing sand so we can track outcomes
*disclaimer
the risk is loss of your investment if it doesnt work, and the gain is you get a skip cycle job done without having to make any rinse effort.
This thread here is for anyone willing to put their tank on the line to forge a simpler path.
Ok go, I'll keep this bumped for the next nine years, or paste it as an alternative into upcoming transfer threads, home moves, sand swaps, let's see who wants their stuff on the line for an easy no work mode.
Anything you do to a reef tank sandbed unrinsed we need that logged here for outcome tracking
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