Wish me luck

shaggy14 · 01/25/2009, 06:27 AM

I just moved 80% of my livestock to my 90g from my 50g. been postponing it cause i finally had everything happy and didnt want to risk it all. tank has been up and running for 2 weeks now with the new rock(dead), and i added some zoas 2 days ago to test things out. earlier tonight i moved over several pieces of LR from my 50, then moved my clown over. after 6-7 hours of him swimming around happily i moved my sps, almost all my rock, skimmer, lights, 1/2 my pumps, and my hippo tang. now ill wait till tomorrow night before adding my yellow tang and royal gamma. the yellow will probably be the last to move, as he has been with me the longest.

redfishsc · 01/25/2009, 06:58 AM

I am hoping that you have tested your water quality and aren't going by the "well it looks fine to me" test.

When you set up a new tank like that, with dead rock, and want to add corals two weeks later, you HAVE to test your ammonia levels, and preferably pH and your other standard quality tests.

shaggy14 · 01/25/2009, 07:19 AM

i matched the ph, alk, temp, and salinity. i also added about 10lbs of LR earlier this week from my fuge so i could get a pod population going. had a few snails and hermits in there too to test the water since they are so sensitive to changes.

01/25/2009, 06:27 AM	#1
shaggy14 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: denison texas Posts: 620	Wish me luck I just moved 80% of my livestock to my 90g from my 50g. been postponing it cause i finally had everything happy and didnt want to risk it all. tank has been up and running for 2 weeks now with the new rock(dead), and i added some zoas 2 days ago to test things out. earlier tonight i moved over several pieces of LR from my 50, then moved my clown over. after 6-7 hours of him swimming around happily i moved my sps, almost all my rock, skimmer, lights, 1/2 my pumps, and my hippo tang. now ill wait till tomorrow night before adding my yellow tang and royal gamma. the yellow will probably be the last to move, as he has been with me the longest.

01/25/2009, 06:58 AM	#2
redfishsc Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 3,696	I am hoping that you have tested your water quality and aren't going by the "well it looks fine to me" test. When you set up a new tank like that, with dead rock, and want to add corals two weeks later, you HAVE to test your ammonia levels, and preferably pH and your other standard quality tests. __________________ "The measure of a life is not its duration but its donation." Corrie Ten Boom “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins” -- Søren Kierkegaard Current Tank Info: ghetto grad school reef.....11g rimless tank, 36X9X9, lit by Cree and Rebels scobbled together. Stocked mostly with free stuff I got from panhandling my fellow reefers.

01/25/2009, 07:19 AM	#3
shaggy14 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: denison texas Posts: 620	i matched the ph, alk, temp, and salinity. i also added about 10lbs of LR earlier this week from my fuge so i could get a pod population going. had a few snails and hermits in there too to test the water since they are so sensitive to changes. __________________ 215g display, 80g melev sump, 60g melev frag tank, 2x mp40w's, mag 12 return pump, 3 modded 6025, 1 6065, koralia magnum 8, 2x250 phoenix hqi's, 1x250 phoenix SE, 2x160w actinics, MRC dual chamber calcium reactor with Ph controller, MR1 phosban reactor, Red sea ozonizer 200mg/hr with ORP controller, royal exclusive alpha cone 250 skimmer, reefkeeper elite on its way 80+ species of SPS and counting Current Tank Info: 215g display, 60g frag tank, 80g sump