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So I have been posting a lot of questions lately because my equipment comes in on Friday (RODI, Lights...) and I plan on taking a over a tank the following week, live rock, sand, fish...
Just received a phone call from the seller stating he needs to be gone Wednesday Night due to an emergency and is packing up right now.
Say he needs everything gone Wednesday afternoon or its staying at his rental and he's leaving it all behind.
I have no clue what to do right now.
I am thinking I have no choice but to grab everything or else it pretty much dies.
Here are a few dilemmas I am facing and wondering if you guys had some solutions.
1) The Water! My RODI doesn't come in until Friday and even then its a 90 Gallon per Day. My tank volume is a total of 300 Gallons. Can I pull off Conditioned Tap water for now and then just do water changes and top offs with the RODI water or am I asking for trouble that way? I will post the city's water specs below.
2) He plans on having the live rock ready to go in a bucket and said he'd have wet newspaper on top of them, is that good enough for a 2 hour drive? Until I can put them in my water. Can the sand just be put in a bucket as well or does it need to be in water at all time.
3) My Refractometer comes in Friday, can I depend on the instructions of the salt mix bucket or should I just go buy a hydrometer from the local Petsmart? If I get my target Salinity, will the live rock and sand raise that or I do not factor that in?
I think that is it for now, any other advice or help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Just received a phone call from the seller stating he needs to be gone Wednesday Night due to an emergency and is packing up right now.
Say he needs everything gone Wednesday afternoon or its staying at his rental and he's leaving it all behind.
I have no clue what to do right now.
I am thinking I have no choice but to grab everything or else it pretty much dies.
Here are a few dilemmas I am facing and wondering if you guys had some solutions.
1) The Water! My RODI doesn't come in until Friday and even then its a 90 Gallon per Day. My tank volume is a total of 300 Gallons. Can I pull off Conditioned Tap water for now and then just do water changes and top offs with the RODI water or am I asking for trouble that way? I will post the city's water specs below.
2) He plans on having the live rock ready to go in a bucket and said he'd have wet newspaper on top of them, is that good enough for a 2 hour drive? Until I can put them in my water. Can the sand just be put in a bucket as well or does it need to be in water at all time.
3) My Refractometer comes in Friday, can I depend on the instructions of the salt mix bucket or should I just go buy a hydrometer from the local Petsmart? If I get my target Salinity, will the live rock and sand raise that or I do not factor that in?
I think that is it for now, any other advice or help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
NOV-25 | NOV-26 | NOV-27 | NOV-28 | NOV-29 | NOV-30 | DEC-01 | |
Total Hardness (mg/L as CaCO3) (2) | 164 | 164 | 165 | 172 | 177 | 180 | 182 |
pH (pH) (3) | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 |
Temperature (°C) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Total Chlorine Residual (mg/L) (4) | 2.00 | 2.01 | 1.82 | 1.99 | 1.99 | 1.98 | 1.99 |
Alkalinity (mg/L as CaCO3) (5) | 121 | 122 | 121 | 128 | 135 | 136 | 131 |
Conductivity (µS/cm) (6) | 386 | 384 | 181 | 401 | 419 | 418 | 426 |
Caustic Soda (mg/L) (7) | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.7 | 46.1 | 14.3 | 12.9 | 12.7 |