Moving an Aquarium Questions

[Hugh Mann]

and go 75 you'll love the x floor space over 55

If I buy a bigger one, it's going to be a 125 or more. Gonna need the space for when I restock my tank.

 

[Hugh Mann]

+1 all that.

How long was the tank up? Is the rock you kept alive nice live rock covered in coralline? If so then I would keep the coralline alive with a cheapo light.

Right around two months. Just started growing green algae. I only had one rock with coralline, and that piece is in with my separated eel, which has a light.

Well.... you only really need 1 live rock to start a tank. This will quickly do the job. I'm now at the point where it only takes 3 days to cycle a new tank but too many members here will totally freak out if they heard how I do it. Due to a number of circumstances I've made 3 tank changes in the last 6 months...the last today becuz the the 45 yr old tank I found under the garage (an AGA now called Aqueon) sprung a nasty leak after 3 months in service (Why?). Today was no sweat as I saved the water and just replaced wastage. Also reused all rock and sand...after placing it in a bucket and decanting of the dirty water. All times had 100% survival including new corals although some took a long time adjusting to their new setting/siteing. Each time I'm always disatisfied with my aquascaping as it is never like it was before but wait....happens each time...means I actually liked the new scape...just needed to get used to it. (and let the engineer gobies do their thing!) Moving into a new same sized tank is like planting a garden...there's never enough soil/water left to fill the hole!. PLEASE NOTE: It may take only 3 days to fully cycle a new tank but it still takes 6 months to a year for the tank to MATURE! I know of no way to speed that up.

Thank you, that's a huge help. I'll just have to monitor the ammonia levels until it gets back up to speed, but with how much live rock I can store, 13lbs per fish seems like it should be okay.

 

[brandon429]

this is helpful because it is your job but x 300 reefs, you can see pre and post patterns here to make sound predictions about your upcoming job. every job is a total skip cycle, instant, without any delay.

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Hugh Mann]

That's a ton of information, thanks for the link.