Moving reef from 105 to 135.... advice please
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heh to quote myself...
was being the operative word... that was before i got my 2 swallowtails
Ok, so I'll work on setting up a QT asap for a Flame angel. I have a 10 gallon I'm going to attach to the system and I was thinking of putting a UV sterilizer on the outgoing of it somehow. Anyway, it'll sortof be an extra refugium. I will put the CB in there until the Flame is ready to go in the main tank. How's that?
I am moving my sand, or most of it anyway. Throwing that out goes against my bargain shopper's grain.
It's too full of good stuff, I can't let it go. I can rinse it in tank water as I move it though. Besides, my sand digging gobies keep it pretty stirred up and clean.
I don't HAVE to move anything right away, I can continue to fill the 135 and get it up and running and do water changes from my 105 to the 135 for the next few water changes. In May I was planning to order a small "package" from TBS, but now maybe I'll just get an extra 20 pounds or so and some of their live sand and put that in and get a cycle going and then start the move. Before we decided to move everything and I thought I was making a whole new tank, I was planning on getting the whole thing running with no skimmer and just putting carbon and a big filter sponge in before the return so it would clean up the water for a while before we could get the new skimmer, so I could just do that for a few weeks anyway. I'll take it slow and keep you guys posted on progress.
No, there's no way to use the VHOs and the 48" light together. The VHOs are a retro inside a canopy and the 48" is a whole fixture.
I traded my 110 FW for the tunze and a SEIO! Plus I got a new bucket of salt mix and 20 pounds of live rock out of the deal! :grinyes:
Then we got the Iwaki 70 for an embarrassingly cheap price the other day. :grinyes: from the guy who thought it was too much for his tank.
No one answered my ? yet about too much flow. There's no such thing, right? I mean, not like I'm going to aim the Tunze directly at the rocks or anything.
Oh and if I had a lunar wrasse, I wouldn't put shrimp in the tank. I'd like to have one of the smaller puffers too, so probably no snails or hermies either. Guess I'll have to actually CLEAN the tank myself.
I'd also like to have an Antennarius sp. frogfish, but we'll see. Oooo, maybe I can have an eel in that tank. I think the snowflakes are so pretty. So yeah, I'll end up with a FOWLR slightly aggressive tank after all!
I am moving my sand, or most of it anyway. Throwing that out goes against my bargain shopper's grain.
It's too full of good stuff, I can't let it go. I can rinse it in tank water as I move it though. Besides, my sand digging gobies keep it pretty stirred up and clean. I don't HAVE to move anything right away, I can continue to fill the 135 and get it up and running and do water changes from my 105 to the 135 for the next few water changes. In May I was planning to order a small "package" from TBS, but now maybe I'll just get an extra 20 pounds or so and some of their live sand and put that in and get a cycle going and then start the move. Before we decided to move everything and I thought I was making a whole new tank, I was planning on getting the whole thing running with no skimmer and just putting carbon and a big filter sponge in before the return so it would clean up the water for a while before we could get the new skimmer, so I could just do that for a few weeks anyway. I'll take it slow and keep you guys posted on progress.
No, there's no way to use the VHOs and the 48" light together. The VHOs are a retro inside a canopy and the 48" is a whole fixture.
I traded my 110 FW for the tunze and a SEIO! Plus I got a new bucket of salt mix and 20 pounds of live rock out of the deal! :grinyes:
Then we got the Iwaki 70 for an embarrassingly cheap price the other day. :grinyes: from the guy who thought it was too much for his tank.
No one answered my ? yet about too much flow. There's no such thing, right? I mean, not like I'm going to aim the Tunze directly at the rocks or anything.
Oh and if I had a lunar wrasse, I wouldn't put shrimp in the tank. I'd like to have one of the smaller puffers too, so probably no snails or hermies either. Guess I'll have to actually CLEAN the tank myself.
I'd also like to have an Antennarius sp. frogfish, but we'll see. Oooo, maybe I can have an eel in that tank. I think the snowflakes are so pretty. So yeah, I'll end up with a FOWLR slightly aggressive tank after all!
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If it is possible one of the angels should be a lot smaller than the other when you add them. If you have one large angel and one small angel there is a better chance of the smaller one being female and the larger being male, then you would have less territorial issues.
I thought it was the other way around, females are bigger, maybe that is just clowns. But I agree, 2 different sizes would be more ideal so you don't get too much fighting.
I would NOT hook your 10G QT to your main system, that completely defeats the purpose of a QT (isolated) tank. A UV sterilizer will NOT protect against things like ich from spreading. It will kill some of it, if it is present, but probably only around 25% at best.
Flow, no, never have too much flow.. only thing limiting on flow is getting it placed correctly so you don't get a whirlpool or sandstorm effect in your tank. I am at 68x turnover on my 29G tank, and Amp says he is at 150x turnover, and that still doesn't compete with ocean currents.
I would NOT hook your 10G QT to your main system, that completely defeats the purpose of a QT (isolated) tank. A UV sterilizer will NOT protect against things like ich from spreading. It will kill some of it, if it is present, but probably only around 25% at best.
Flow, no, never have too much flow.. only thing limiting on flow is getting it placed correctly so you don't get a whirlpool or sandstorm effect in your tank. I am at 68x turnover on my 29G tank, and Amp says he is at 150x turnover, and that still doesn't compete with ocean currents.
Ace, I'll have a separate QT, I meant that I'll be hooking up another 10 gallon to the main tank as sortof an extra refugium. This is mostly for my own amusement. Good to know that about the UV thingy, won't bother then.
Have abandoned the move idea though. LOL Didn't take long! My IPSF order came today and WHOA that was SO much fun putting that stuff into my fuge! I was just thinking how much of a pain it would be to try to move everything and I know I'd still manage to lose some of the stuff that has just started to establish itself really well.....Plus, moving or not, I still have to wait a month or so before I can get the right light for the 135 and I'd still probably need a bigger skimmer, so might as well just get the water running through the 135 and make sure everything works, run carbon for a little while and hunt for deals on lights and skimmers. I think I'll put the tunze in my 105 to give it a try in there for a bit. Hehehe
Have abandoned the move idea though. LOL Didn't take long! My IPSF order came today and WHOA that was SO much fun putting that stuff into my fuge! I was just thinking how much of a pain it would be to try to move everything and I know I'd still manage to lose some of the stuff that has just started to establish itself really well.....Plus, moving or not, I still have to wait a month or so before I can get the right light for the 135 and I'd still probably need a bigger skimmer, so might as well just get the water running through the 135 and make sure everything works, run carbon for a little while and hunt for deals on lights and skimmers. I think I'll put the tunze in my 105 to give it a try in there for a bit. Hehehe
