Hi! I've been lurking around reading everything I could get my eyes on for about 2 weeks. Lots of help, but I don't think anyone has had my particular situation come up.
I am babysitting a 55 gal sw for a year, while my stepson is in Spain. Don't ask me how we've managed to get the fish, tank, etc. all up here to middle Kansas from southwest Texas, get it back up & running, and not manage to kill too much (most of which was my own impulsivness).
So, I have a cycled tank with about probably half the live rock necessary (never weighed it-it takes up about a 1/4 of the tank space, I'd say), a 3 to 4 inch sand bed (coralline, but with about an extra inch of silica).
In it are:
a nasty red tooth trigger that likes to eat things (4 inch)
6 mollies that the boys used to cycle the tank
1 yellow tail damsel
1 white tail humbug
about a half dozen or so hermits, both blue & red leg.
I haven't come across a post of anyone adding garf grunge to an existing tank.
1. Can it be added to a running tank?
2. Do I just dump the stuff in, or what?
I am babysitting a 55 gal sw for a year, while my stepson is in Spain. Don't ask me how we've managed to get the fish, tank, etc. all up here to middle Kansas from southwest Texas, get it back up & running, and not manage to kill too much (most of which was my own impulsivness).
So, I have a cycled tank with about probably half the live rock necessary (never weighed it-it takes up about a 1/4 of the tank space, I'd say), a 3 to 4 inch sand bed (coralline, but with about an extra inch of silica).
In it are:
a nasty red tooth trigger that likes to eat things (4 inch)
6 mollies that the boys used to cycle the tank
1 yellow tail damsel
1 white tail humbug
about a half dozen or so hermits, both blue & red leg.
I haven't come across a post of anyone adding garf grunge to an existing tank.
1. Can it be added to a running tank?
2. Do I just dump the stuff in, or what?
