advice on tank redo

[Reefmon]

I have a 180 gallon tank that has been neglected. The rocks are covered in aptasia, bubble algae, gsp and/or Xenia.

My plan is to acid deep all the rock, dump the sand and put all my fish in a kiddie pool with the current tank water. I have three big marine pure that is currently in the sump that I will also put in the kiddie pool.

Once the rock is cleaned, I will place it back in the tank in a better scape formation. I will use most of the kiddie pool water and new water to fill the tank back up. All the fish will go back in the tank alone with the marine pure blocks. The marine pure will be used to seed the clean rock and keep bacteria in the tank. I will seed the tank with dr tims bacteria.

I will take this time to change my wood stand to a taller steel stand and replace my 30 gallon sump with a 75 gallon sump.

Is there anything wrong with this plan?

 

[shollis2814]

How many fish do you have? If you are dumping the substrate and nuking the rocks, you are basically resetting your tank and it will cycle again.

I don't know anything about the effectiveness of marine pure or Dr. Tims. I have never used it.

Sounds like it's doable. I would have plenty of RODI water on hand to minimize spikes since you are not adding fish slowly.

I wish I were closer, I'd come take some GSP and Xenia off your hands :-P

 

[Reefmon]

How many fish do you have? If you are dumping the substrate and nuking the rocks, you are basically resetting your tank and it will cycle again.

I don't know anything about the effectiveness of marine pure or Dr. Tims. I have never used it.

Sounds like it's doable. I would have plenty of RODI water on hand to minimize spikes since you are not adding fish slowly.

I wish I were closer, I'd come take some GSP and Xenia off your hands :-P

Thanks for your reply. If was closer, the gsp and Xenia would have been yours. It's hard to give these things away here. I've cut them off rocks to give away and they've came back. I'm reluctant to give them away now because of the infestation of the pest anemone. Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy

 

[shollis2814]

I can't imagine that in a 180. My 36 gave me a headache with GHA a few weeks back. Thankfully, the couple of aiptasia polyps I have encountered went down with a couple of peppermint shrimp.

Good luck.

 

[Reefmon]

I can't imagine that in a 180. My 36 gave me a headache with GHA a few weeks back. Thankfully, the couple of aiptasia polyps I have encountered went down with a couple of peppermint shrimp.

Good luck.

I have a 24 gallon anemone tank that needs a deep cleaning also. like the 180, it's infested with aptasia and bubble algae [emoji17]

 

[shollis2814]

a 3 day blackout worked great for my bubble algae. Unfortunately, I would assume the die off might fuel the aptasia.
Would your reef club or LFS loan or rent an aptasia eating file fish?

 

[Reefmon]

a 3 day blackout worked great for my bubble algae. Unfortunately, I would assume the die off might fuel the aptasia.
Would your reef club or LFS loan or rent an aptasia eating file fish?

Not sure how a 3day black out would effect my anemones. I thought about getting peppermint shrimp but worried about my anemone shrimp and 5 sexy shrimp that are in the nano

 

[shollis2814]

I am thinking out loud here, spitballing if you will.
What if you had a small piece of rubble with aptasia from your 180 and put it in a sump with a peppermint and see if it goes for it. I would almost try biological control on the 180 before I would break it down, especially if it's cycled. But again, the largest SW I have done has been 75.

 

[Reefmon]

I am thinking out loud here, spitballing if you will.
What if you had a small piece of rubble with aptasia from your 180 and put it in a sump with a peppermint and see if it goes for it. I would almost try biological control on the 180 before I would break it down, especially if it's cycled. But again, the largest SW I have done has been 75.

I can toss peppermint shrimp in the 180 but there is the issue with the gsp and Xenia. I want to take the tank down to upgrade the sump and stand

 

[shollis2814]

Gotcha, I'm sorry, I was focusing on the aptasia and forgetting that the xenia and GSP were a problem, lol.

 

[Reefmon]

Gotcha, I'm sorry, I was focusing on the aptasia and forgetting that the xenia and GSP were a problem, lol.

No worries..you got me thinking of ditching the rock with the Xenias and gsp and leave the rock with the aptasia with hopes in the shrimp take care of it. Might do that instead of washing all the rock

 

[shollis2814]

I wish I had the money for overnight shipping. I'd take them off your hands!