Tank move update

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As most of you know I had a 20 gallon that had a leak and I had to upgrade my tank. I went with a 29 gallon bio cube. Moved everything from my other tank over into the new tank and all seems to be going well. As of right now I only have 2 cups of sand in the new setup and was wondering if I should put more in
 
This is a pic of the new setup. Still working on the liverock.
 

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I would vote that its inconsequential if you add more or not. Only a quality low range ammonia test kit can tell if you have enough, but going off open corals that do not like true .25-.5 levels you are prob ok. The right move is to change water by a larger percentage than you normally might do as an insurance that you moved over enough active surface area to handle the bioload in the new tank.

Your move of the sand has likely upwelled some nutrients that w fuel that algae, and the fish bioloading is decent for this size tank, so that w add to the algae challenges but it wouldnt be hard at all to contain. Currently, the algae is being fed and not grazed and thats how the algae has a foothold.
 
have a meeting real quick, afterwards w type up a prediction about your algae be right back sec. yes we w factor nutrients into the long term balance :) but your algae is not hard to get an initial hold on, not hard at all. brb
 

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