Cancelled the order for chemiclean, I’m going to do the RIP clean for my tank. Just looking at my tank rn makes me mad for how bad it looks
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That would be great, I’m done screwing around I need to take action now with thisI know my way has increased jerk mode factor but that’s on purpose lol
I really really want to rip clean Chris‘ tank live time here
everyone here had nine pages to earn a fix. Time to fix
if we can agree on that I’ll go edit my jmode above with the steps Shadow k just used to get there with a 20 tank in a few hours work
I got cyano too and I assume the RIP clean will get rid of that alsoLet me go edit out my posts earlier brb. It will help many to see a dinos job fixed by sheer force
Okay so if I understand correctly basically all I’m doing is clean (and scrubbing?) my rocks and cleaning the sand? And I can do this all in one take right? No waiting?ok all set
Uncaption me above and the unhelpful operant conditioning vaporizes away heh.
you’ll need twenty gallons of new water and some ro water for final rinses, we won’t use any bottled bac. Instead of posting a huge scroll example we can custom run your tank on its own.
what we are doing is complete disassembly cleaning all at once, none of it causes a cycle. it removes the most invasion, all efforts thereafter are aimed at preventing remassing, but the tank will reappear laser clean.
you first want all your fish and corals in holding buckets with good aeration and covers in clean made water, matching temp and salinity to current water. Anticipate jumpers in holding buckets. Don’t transfer dinos stuck to corals rinse them well before placed into holding.
the rocks are then lifted out
rinse off rocks in RO water for this particular job. Dinos hate osmotic stress and quick simple ro won’t uncycle rocks. Rub off all dinos using ro water and then final rinse in saltwater
rocks are now cloudless and ready and still cycled, no bottle bac.
take apart rest of tank and clean tank empty with cleaner of your choice
either get new sand and pre rinse for over an hour in prep, or rinse your current sand in tap water in a bucket for over an hour, make it cloudless / most important step of all is the tap rinse and final sand rinse in ro you now have cloudless sand and rocks to reassemble in all new tank water matching temp and salinity to the old.
it skip cycles because 1. No clouding was allowed and 2. The rocks weren’t treated with antibiotics, they were merely rained on a sec then put back in the ocean. Bioslicks insulated them fully.
some dinos will automatically ride back in on the slime coat vectors of fish but for once they’ll have zero community support and thats when we’d begin the common dinos suppression set of moves, the ones the masses try to employ in the full invaded condition.
Yes. I did this on my tank a few months ago. I chose to replace my sand. Cyano was bad and I wanted a coarser sand.I got cyano too and I assume the RIP clean will get rid of that also
Yup, took me about 4 hrs. Have everything ready before you start.And I can do this all in one take right? No waiting?
Sounds good I definitely need to figure out the logistics of how I am going to get enough RO water to fill up my tank again.Yup, took me about 4 hrs. Have everything ready before you start.
Okay so I am rinsing off the rocks with RO and scrubbing them too, do I dip them back into a designated bucket of RO for the rock scrubbing or do I just pour the RO on the rocks while scrubbing then dip them into saltwater AND then put them in a holding bucket of saltwater?consider how he rinsed 75 times above, that’s stand out. It takes that much work because he’s blasting out 110% of all clouding components from the sand, leaving in clouding by under rinsing is the risk. Saltwater runs out too fast, we can’t rinse 75 times but tap water is endless
final rinse in ro, it’s like the tap was never used
Also as for the sand, do I completely remove all water out of my tank then take the sand out or how does that work?consider how he rinsed 75 times above, that’s stand out. It takes that much work because he’s blasting out 110% of all clouding components from the sand, leaving in clouding by under rinsing is the risk. Saltwater runs out too fast, we can’t rinse 75 times but tap water is endless
final rinse in ro, it’s like the tap was never used