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Water already! Dang! You don't mess around!
Nope! As soon as it was in I just wanted to see water in it. There’s probably another 200 litres to go currently plus the sand.
 
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Dang sorry for you losses. I still remember when you first got ikea. Tank is coming along great.
It was a shame but I have no doubts I’ll get another when the tank is established!

The first new fish that I’m getting however will be a Magnificent Foxface - Maybe I’ll even get two.
 

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Two things.
1: the new tank looks fabulous
2: sorry to hear about those losses. Foxy in particular. Glad to hear you’re going to get a new one or two. I have to admit I love mine.
 
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Two things.
1: the new tank looks fabulous
2: sorry to hear about those losses. Foxy in particular. Glad to hear you’re going to get a new one or two. I have to admit I love mine.
Thankyou, unfortunately I have yet to have a tank upgrade without losing fish but each time it just means when I next move or upgrade it’ll be much less likely I lose fish!
 
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It’s full!! We have sand and rock now just the fish have to go in.
I don’t have any live bottled bacteria but I’m hoping one fish won’t do too much in terms of ammonia.

Photos to come :)
 

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It’s full!! We have sand and rock now just the fish have to go in.
I don’t have any live bottled bacteria but I’m hoping one fish won’t do too much in terms of ammonia.

Photos to come :)
Are the rocks cycled? If they are no reason to worry about ammonia.
 
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Are the rocks cycled? If they are no reason to worry about ammonia.
They’re all the same rocks from out of the 4 foot tank.

The sand is dry and new as I wasn’t going to risk the same mistake I had in the last upgrade of this tank.
 
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What do we think? How many wrasses will fit in this tank?

I’m guessing at least 15 if I don’t have any more large fish which is not the plan - The only 2 fish being replaced from those deaths are the regal and fox. I had the chance on another regal but didn’t want to risk it and I’m going back on Thursday/Friday as the LFS has an import coming in with some gorgeous wrasse like Diamond Tails.
 

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Assuming the average wrasse is 10cm long 3cm tall and 2cm wide. Using pi/6 as a ratio for volume lost due to a wrasse being more spherical then rectangular prism shaped.

10cm*3cm*2cm*pi/6=31.4cm^3 = 0.0314L = 0.00830 gallons

180gal/0.00830gal= 21,689 wrasse
 

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Assuming the average wrasse is 10cm long 3cm tall and 2cm wide. Using pi/6 as a ratio for volume lost due to a wrasse being more spherical then rectangular prism shaped.

10cm*3cm*2cm*pi/6=31.4cm^3 = 0.0314L = 0.00830 gallons

180gal/0.00830gal= 21,689 wrasse
Numbers track. However, oxygen exchange may become problematic. Perhaps you want some volume-to-volume ratio of water to wrasse volume? Maybe 100x? So you can get 216.89 wrasses into the 5 foot tank--let's say 216 wrasses and a shrimp goby. Savvy?
 

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They’re all the same rocks from out of the 4 foot tank.

The sand is dry and new as I wasn’t going to risk the same mistake I had in the last upgrade of this tank.
You’re good to go then. Each upgrade has had the rocks from the previous and it’s been no issues whatsoever
 

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Assuming the average wrasse is 10cm long 3cm tall and 2cm wide. Using pi/6 as a ratio for volume lost due to a wrasse being more spherical then rectangular prism shaped.

10cm*3cm*2cm*pi/6=31.4cm^3 = 0.0314L = 0.00830 gallons

180gal/0.00830gal= 21,689 wrasse
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Assuming the average wrasse is 10cm long 3cm tall and 2cm wide. Using pi/6 as a ratio for volume lost due to a wrasse being more spherical then rectangular prism shaped.

10cm*3cm*2cm*pi/6=31.4cm^3 = 0.0314L = 0.00830 gallons

180gal/0.00830gal= 21,689 wrasse

Be careful going over 20k wrasse....

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Assuming the average wrasse is 10cm long 3cm tall and 2cm wide. Using pi/6 as a ratio for volume lost due to a wrasse being more spherical then rectangular prism shaped.

10cm*3cm*2cm*pi/6=31.4cm^3 = 0.0314L = 0.00830 gallons

180gal/0.00830gal= 21,689 wrasse
Does that account for list space due to would objects being solid or are you assuming pureed wrasse?
 

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Assuming the average wrasse is 10cm long 3cm tall and 2cm wide. Using pi/6 as a ratio for volume lost due to a wrasse being more spherical then rectangular prism shaped.

10cm*3cm*2cm*pi/6=31.4cm^3 = 0.0314L = 0.00830 gallons

180gal/0.00830gal= 21,689 wrasse
Does 21,688 wrasses + 1 sixline wrasse = 1 sixline wrasse?
 

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Like i could....
Insert broke back mountain gif.
My recommendation is get as close to the colors that are actually in the tank. I edit so that the black point makes them look less washed out, but otherwise editing is pretty minimal. Gotta remember all vendors , even Shane use fairly heavy blues and edit them to look brighter. Albeit SBB corals don’t get overblown like say Jason Fox corals when shown on site.
Like these unedited?
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