Help with substrate change

[Snoogans]

Hi guys

Following the never ending debate on cc vs sand, I decided to go with the sand argument and hence spent the day changing my substrate over. I removed all my live rock and clean up crew plus lone hemiofungia (no fish yet thank god) into an esky setup with water from the original tank and a couple of power heads for flow and oxygen. I then added the washed sand to the tank which had remained terribly cloudy ever since (about 6h ago).

Its now midnight in Australia and am unsure if I can go to bed and everything will be ok in my make-shift tank or if I can just add my LR back in with the water still cloudy??

Any suggestions would be much appreciated

 

[5xevy]

You can add the rock while it's still cloudy. It may even take a day for your tank to finally look clear again.

I'm glad you decided to do this now before having fish in there! It would've made it a lot more harder and stressful.

 

[Catpicklesdog]

^^ agreed^^^ The only difficulty in trying to put rock back into a cloudy tank is the aquascaping!!! (you can't see a thing!!)

 

[Snoogans]

thanks guys, ended up placing the rock randomly around the tank and will replace once i can see it. appreciate the help

 

[Catpicklesdog]

And don't forget to post the piccies - we LOVE piccies!!!

 

[Reefscape]

PIX PIX PIX PIX PIX PIX PIX PIX.......ummmm.....would it be possible to see a photograph of the redone system please?

Niko

 

[Snoogans]

as soon as the water is clear again i will post a pic, promise

 

[SHK_ATK]

lol I thought people wanted to see soup!!