Happy Easter All,
Yesterday my son and I picked up our “new to us” Red Sea 250 from a seller in Manhattan, NY and moved it 20 miles to Yonkers, NY. This is my 1st Saltwater Tank although I have had Freshwater in the past. I have always wanted to do Saltwater since I was kid, so when my Dr. recently told me I may be sick I decided now is the time! So after a month of research I decided to jump right in! Now I have watched all the BRS videos on starting a tank but I found a great deal on this tank but it was in use, so I did receive livestock and coral (what most of them are I don’t recall, but I know this group will help me)... So I couldn’t do the set up the same way as described by BRS.
The plan was as follows:
Thursday bought premixed Saltwater from LFS. Set up with heat & flow.
Rent a Van, take as much water (run through filter sock) as possible, pack fish and coral, use New Carib-Sea live sand with very little of sellers sand. Transport home, and rebuild. Well... That WAS the plan...
Here is a Picture of the tank at the Sellers Home.
When we got there Tank was full of hair algae (so the seller said)... So we scrubbed the worse rocks to remove a lot of the algae. Used 20 Gallon bin, numerous Home Depot Buckets filled with water, rock (Some with coral some without) seller kept a lot of the nice frags for himself (understandable, I guess) No Tang fish... Whatever... Fast forward to now we have everything in out home.
Time is now the essence as the breakdown took a lot longer then we figured. My plan was to set up system, lay egg crate on the bottom then Aqua Scape, lay the sand nice, fill with water etc... But know I get hime and need to do a vinegar bath on all the equipment due to all the algae (list is below). So now time is really starting to worry me. So I lay the egg crate, add the sand and start filling with water adding rock as I go. (Not Aqua Scaping as I had hoped) then added the rock with corals already & fish last. Here is what the tank looked like when I 1st completed (leveled still off need to re-level today)
Yesterday my son and I picked up our “new to us” Red Sea 250 from a seller in Manhattan, NY and moved it 20 miles to Yonkers, NY. This is my 1st Saltwater Tank although I have had Freshwater in the past. I have always wanted to do Saltwater since I was kid, so when my Dr. recently told me I may be sick I decided now is the time! So after a month of research I decided to jump right in! Now I have watched all the BRS videos on starting a tank but I found a great deal on this tank but it was in use, so I did receive livestock and coral (what most of them are I don’t recall, but I know this group will help me)... So I couldn’t do the set up the same way as described by BRS.
The plan was as follows:
Thursday bought premixed Saltwater from LFS. Set up with heat & flow.
Rent a Van, take as much water (run through filter sock) as possible, pack fish and coral, use New Carib-Sea live sand with very little of sellers sand. Transport home, and rebuild. Well... That WAS the plan...
Here is a Picture of the tank at the Sellers Home.
When we got there Tank was full of hair algae (so the seller said)... So we scrubbed the worse rocks to remove a lot of the algae. Used 20 Gallon bin, numerous Home Depot Buckets filled with water, rock (Some with coral some without) seller kept a lot of the nice frags for himself (understandable, I guess) No Tang fish... Whatever... Fast forward to now we have everything in out home.
Time is now the essence as the breakdown took a lot longer then we figured. My plan was to set up system, lay egg crate on the bottom then Aqua Scape, lay the sand nice, fill with water etc... But know I get hime and need to do a vinegar bath on all the equipment due to all the algae (list is below). So now time is really starting to worry me. So I lay the egg crate, add the sand and start filling with water adding rock as I go. (Not Aqua Scaping as I had hoped) then added the rock with corals already & fish last. Here is what the tank looked like when I 1st completed (leveled still off need to re-level today)