Need Help...What to do?!?

DANtheMan95 · 08/17/2010, 04:41 PM

I am going to redo my reef tank however i have live stock in it what do i do...Put the live stock in a separate tank?Please help...Thank you

thegrun · 08/17/2010, 04:56 PM

What are you going to do exactly? Rearrange rock work? Rework returns (drill tank)....? You can do a fair amount of work with the fish still in the tank. If there is going to be extensive amounts of sand disturbance, you may need to remove the livestock as the trapped detritus in the sand can cause major problems if stirred up.

DANtheMan95 · 08/17/2010, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by thegrun

What are you going to do exactly? Rearrange rock work? Rework returns (drill tank)....? You can do a fair amount of work with the fish still in the tank. If there is going to be extensive amounts of sand disturbance, you may need to remove the livestock as the trapped detritus in the sand can cause major problems if stirred up.

I am going to do some rock work and sand i might remove from tank

Damasta5 · 08/17/2010, 07:02 PM

I would say you can use some seachem stability once you do that. I just recently took my rocks out to get out my golden head goby because he was attacking my heilfrichi goby and mixed everything up. I removed the coras and put them in clean tank water first and left the fish in the tanks. I than put the rocks and corals back in after taking out the golden head and cleaned the sand and rocks and put back in clean salt water like doing a water change and I had no deaths of any fish or corals.

08/17/2010, 04:41 PM	#1
DANtheMan95 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: South El Monte,CA Posts: 62	Need Help...What to do?!? I am going to redo my reef tank however i have live stock in it what do i do...Put the live stock in a separate tank?Please help...Thank you __________________ 75 Gallon Reef Tank Yellow Tang,Paired Percula Clowns,Six Line Wrasse,Bangaii Cardinal,Royal Damsel,Yellow Tail Damsel,Cleaner Shrimp,Snails,Hermit Crabs. Current Tank Info: 75G tank

08/17/2010, 04:56 PM	#2
thegrun Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Garden Grove, Ca Posts: 17,023	What are you going to do exactly? Rearrange rock work? Rework returns (drill tank)....? You can do a fair amount of work with the fish still in the tank. If there is going to be extensive amounts of sand disturbance, you may need to remove the livestock as the trapped detritus in the sand can cause major problems if stirred up.

08/17/2010, 07:02 PM	#4
Damasta5 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Miramar, FL Posts: 89	I would say you can use some seachem stability once you do that. I just recently took my rocks out to get out my golden head goby because he was attacking my heilfrichi goby and mixed everything up. I removed the coras and put them in clean tank water first and left the fish in the tanks. I than put the rocks and corals back in after taking out the golden head and cleaned the sand and rocks and put back in clean salt water like doing a water change and I had no deaths of any fish or corals.