I read through several pages and never got to the instructions for doing the rip clean. Do you know what page of the thread they are on?
yeah, it's a bit confusing, but it's on the first post... at least the gist.
It's a lot to read, but if you look at the spotlighted posts about the successful ones, it helps/more in depth..
"notice in each work thread example, we do the same set of moves:
-carefully disassemble the reef without stirring up bed
-hold rocks and corals in one container, fish in another w inverts, and take the tank apart with the muddy sand and rinse it to 1000% perfection using cool tap water. final rinse on sand is RO, to evacuate the tap. now the sand is perfect
not 99% cloud free, 1000%
-swish rocks around in -saltwater- (we do care about live rock bacteria and that's all we need to run a reef) to jet out their waste. do not move muddy live rocks from a holding container into your cloudless reassembled reef. swish them free of attached detritus.
-Don’t use GFO and Chemi pure and waste absorbers in the new cleaned system, they’ll be over stripping. Wait weeks or months as needed before adding back adsorbent cheats.
assemble the new tank with new water, the rinsed sand and the cloudless rocks, this is a skip cycle arrangement for the next 40+ pages because it is a cloudless setup.
The secret up front is that you never needed bacteria beyond what the live rock offers; that's more than enough. we ripped and flipped and rinsed your sandbed just as easily as we could have omitted it and went bare bottom- you dont need bacteria beyond your live rocks, its why bare-bottom tanks don't die."
