Before and after substrate swap: crushed coral –> live sand!
My boyfriend and I set up this tank with unrinsed crushed coral based on some bad advice from a LFS owner who happened to be out of live sand that day. Turns out detritus builds up FAST and any disturbance creates a thick white cloud, even after siphoning it each water change. We were also bummed to realize we couldn't get a sandsifter.
Five months and lot of R2R threads later, we decided to swap it all at once without taking fish or coral out. It was honestly very stressful, especially because we couldn't account for all the fish for a few hours until the dust settled. Everyone made it out unscathed though, and we're super happy with the results.
Tiger conch🔜
Tank cleaning day was a success no jumpers lol the second tank just needs to clear up a little I should have waited for a picture of it 😭
Day #5 updating my favia corals status, water became really clear, and everything is starting to getting stabilize
Little cloudy just fragged some things but ❤️
Before and after substrate swap: crushed coral –> live sand!
My boyfriend and I set up this tank with unrinsed crushed coral based on some bad advice from a LFS owner who happened to be out of live sand that day. Turns out detritus builds up FAST and any disturbance creates a thick white cloud, even after siphoning it each water change. We were also bummed to realize we couldn't get a sandsifter.
Five months and lot of R2R threads later, we decided to swap it all at once without taking fish or coral out. It was honestly very stressful, especially because we couldn't account for all the fish for a few hours until the dust settled. Everyone made it out unscathed though, and we're super happy with the results.
Tiger conch🔜
Water is looking extra clear today in the 125gal
Day 2. The water has cleared up and now we wait for algae
Diatoms clearing up, new lid
Just scrubbed my rocks from the green hair algea and rescaped. It's still cloudy but I think I love my tank even more now.. can't wait for it to clear up! Also thought the red was Cayno but after finding out it does indeed not scrub off I learned it's red coralline algea! Pretty happy about that. Hopefully these nitrates and phosphate numbers rise a tad now 🙏