Tank "Reset"...

[Spicer]

Hello all, hope this is the right section...

Ive been imaging a full reset on my tank, 100% water change, vinegar my tank/sump/skimmer/powerheads/overflow box ect.

All this to remove the biopellets, which bricked up and is giving me cyano/crazy algea issues atm, and not treating my corals very nice.

Also having alk/calc/ph balance issues for a little while.

Current tank:

40b display, 6x ati t5ho, mp10, mixed live rock, bare bottom
40b sump, sc150 skimmer, tlf 150 reactor (vertex biopellets), deepblue return pump, big ball of cheato (w/o light though), live rock/some marco rocks becoming live

Future tank:
40b display, 6x ati t5ho, mp10, tunze 6015?, marco rocks only?, fiji pink sand?(1 bag of live, 1 bag of dry?)
40b sump, sc150 skimmer, tlf 150 reactor (gfo? carbon? vertex biopellets?), filter sock?, deepblue return pump, big ball of cheato(add light on it), live rock

Any suggestions for this?

 

[elegance coral]

I "reset" my systems probably about every six months to a year. No real set schedule though. Maybe not a true 100% water change, but the largest I can realistically do given the conditions of the particular system. I clean all the pumps, lights, skimmer, sump, and other equipment. Blast the LR out with a Maxi-Jet, and siphon all the detritus out of the sand. I don't go so far as to break down the tank and clean it with vinegar though.

If you're having algae issues at the moment, this is probably one huge step in getting things turned around. It may not solve the problem over night though. There's likely to be large quantities of phosphate adsorbed to the surface of your LR and sand. It may take multiple cleanings, water changes, GFO replacement, and/or algae harvesting, before this reserve of phosphate is liberated and removed from the system.

 

[pledosophy]

Large water changes are good, and cleaning the equipment is great, but a 100% reset is not something I would ever do. IME it takes my systems a couple years to balance out. What your talking about would set me back years.

 

[Spicer]

Large water changes are good, and cleaning the equipment is great, but a 100% reset is not something I would ever do. IME it takes my systems a couple years to balance out. What your talking about would set me back years.

I have discovered that my tank has early stages of dino, this is what has caused me the algae rage Im talking about.

I will try and deal with the dino before I make any decisions.