KeMiKiLL
Active Member
My Evo 5 has been thriving, aside from a constant red planaria battle, for a while. Everything fully opens during the day, parameters are stable, and all seems well.
When I first moved this setup to my home I learned quite a bit after causing a mini cycle on the reassemble. I think I'm better equipped for this upgrade.
Here is my workflow:
- Rinse new Evo 13.5 tank is RODI water to clean off any manufacturing oils and such.
- Rinse new aragonite substrate until clear.
- Add a good sized chunk of cycled rock from my larger tank to seed the substrate.
- When adding the filtration chamber stack, include a piece of used filter floss from the current Evo 5 (I put two pieces in the chamber two weeks ago in prep for this tank). I will fresh water dip this floss for a few minutes to avoid transferring any planaria over.
- Watch parameters for stability over the next several days.
- When adding rock and corals from the Evo 5, freshwater dip to remove planaria.
Does this seem like a good plan? I don't want to use any planaria killing products as I'd like to keep as much of the microfauna as possible from the old tank, or should I not worry about that at all?
The Evo 5 will be maintained as a quarantine tank once all is over to the 13.5.
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When I first moved this setup to my home I learned quite a bit after causing a mini cycle on the reassemble. I think I'm better equipped for this upgrade.
Here is my workflow:
- Rinse new Evo 13.5 tank is RODI water to clean off any manufacturing oils and such.
- Rinse new aragonite substrate until clear.
- Add a good sized chunk of cycled rock from my larger tank to seed the substrate.
- When adding the filtration chamber stack, include a piece of used filter floss from the current Evo 5 (I put two pieces in the chamber two weeks ago in prep for this tank). I will fresh water dip this floss for a few minutes to avoid transferring any planaria over.
- Watch parameters for stability over the next several days.
- When adding rock and corals from the Evo 5, freshwater dip to remove planaria.
Does this seem like a good plan? I don't want to use any planaria killing products as I'd like to keep as much of the microfauna as possible from the old tank, or should I not worry about that at all?
The Evo 5 will be maintained as a quarantine tank once all is over to the 13.5.
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