(I left it drained 15 minutes and the longest ive done is about 25 mins)
How does this pic relate to you upgrading to a different aquarium with all your animals and wanting to skip cycle it? (Have to take apart one reef to move it into another)
How does this tie into large volume water changes and causing or not causing a cycle in a given reef tank (dirty vs always clean sand)
If we have deep cleaning options on reefs, that may change the lifespan potential for many.
How many cyano issues abound on top of untouched 2 yr + sand beds in our forums? The threads are constant, most tanks are cumulative amounts of detritus, my offer is opposite. Even if it's not practical to strip a giant tank like this, are there ways to run sandbeds differently to prevent the sinking ahead of time?
My old reef is taken apart, blast cleaned harshly w gallons of clean water and then tipped sideways to pour off into the sink. the sandbed was heavily pre rinsed fully of silt before use, longevity was intended in each prep action. It is ideal to pre rinse caribsea sandbeds all makes totally free of silt before use. Allows a lifetime of cleaning and waste rejection without additional silting, again an opposite of the common mode.
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