brotherd
Community Member
As a few of you may know, I lost my 180 due to a split seam several months ago. In that time I have repaired my home and made changes to the floor ,etc where the tank was. I have a new 220 tank on a powder coated steel stand in the approximate same location. It currently sits dry with 100 lbs of Marco rock and 180 lbs of Fiji pink substrate. That's the boring part of my intro.
Here's the hard part,for me anyway. I have managed to to keep a handful of fish and a few corals and inverts alive in a hastily set up 60 gal tank in the basement fish room for all these months. The 60 is tied into the sump and most of the gear I had for the 180.
I'm ready to start again but I can't for the life of me find the courage to take that 60 gal off life support and let it run on it's own with just a heater and and an old aqua clear 110.
If I do it, I can get my new system running in just days but the cycle part will be much longer.More like a couple months.
I already have the following items:
220 gal custom tank with near ctc external beananimal, 1.5"plumbing, 150 gal custom sump, Genesis, Lifereef, Avast, Orphek, Red Sea, Pin point,etc. You get the idea.
All of that will be offline and I'm afraid to put my wet pets in harms way again after the disaster.
How would you find a way to make that transition?
Here's the hard part,for me anyway. I have managed to to keep a handful of fish and a few corals and inverts alive in a hastily set up 60 gal tank in the basement fish room for all these months. The 60 is tied into the sump and most of the gear I had for the 180.
I'm ready to start again but I can't for the life of me find the courage to take that 60 gal off life support and let it run on it's own with just a heater and and an old aqua clear 110.
If I do it, I can get my new system running in just days but the cycle part will be much longer.More like a couple months.
I already have the following items:
220 gal custom tank with near ctc external beananimal, 1.5"plumbing, 150 gal custom sump, Genesis, Lifereef, Avast, Orphek, Red Sea, Pin point,etc. You get the idea.
All of that will be offline and I'm afraid to put my wet pets in harms way again after the disaster.
How would you find a way to make that transition?
