Help with my plan of attack.

rffanat1c · 02/17/2015, 03:26 PM

So I started this hobby 6 months ago like many, dry rock, no quarantining and have paid a small price for it. Dead fish and phosphate leaching rock with lots of hair algae. I started to combat this by going fish less in my DT and worked on the algae while my tank ran fallow.

Well like most, I couldn't stand my aquascape and couldn't make it look nice by just stacking. So I pulled it all out except for about 15 lbs that has all my coral attached to it. I'm going to be doing a final scape by bonding it all together in the shapes I want. I also pulled it out to cook it separately to not battle phosphates in the DT.

I've got a cycled 37g qt that has two maroons in it and a cycled 10g qt that has my new corals in it that will be in there 10 weeks. Maroons have been in 5 weeks and I'll be TTM them two weeks before my fallow period is up. I'm 42 days fallow as of today.

My plan is to put the rock together this week and start cooking. Then on day 60 of being fallow, I'll start TTM (backwards yes but that's how it happened.). Once my rock is not giving off any more ammonia and is processing ammonia, back in the DT it goes. All new corals will spend 10 weeks in the qt.

Anyone have a better way of doing this or suggestions?

02/17/2015, 03:26 PM	#1
rffanat1c Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Kenosha, WI Posts: 693	Help with my plan of attack. So I started this hobby 6 months ago like many, dry rock, no quarantining and have paid a small price for it. Dead fish and phosphate leaching rock with lots of hair algae. I started to combat this by going fish less in my DT and worked on the algae while my tank ran fallow. Well like most, I couldn't stand my aquascape and couldn't make it look nice by just stacking. So I pulled it all out except for about 15 lbs that has all my coral attached to it. I'm going to be doing a final scape by bonding it all together in the shapes I want. I also pulled it out to cook it separately to not battle phosphates in the DT. I've got a cycled 37g qt that has two maroons in it and a cycled 10g qt that has my new corals in it that will be in there 10 weeks. Maroons have been in 5 weeks and I'll be TTM them two weeks before my fallow period is up. I'm 42 days fallow as of today. My plan is to put the rock together this week and start cooking. Then on day 60 of being fallow, I'll start TTM (backwards yes but that's how it happened.). Once my rock is not giving off any more ammonia and is processing ammonia, back in the DT it goes. All new corals will spend 10 weeks in the qt. Anyone have a better way of doing this or suggestions?