Xmas Has Come Early!!
I have to admit this forum has grown on me, and very lucky to have met such lovely people in real life, this is my one and only reefing forum apart from other research I go to the USA sites...
My intention was never to upgrade and most likely downgrade as UNI comes first. Our intentions for the MRS and I were to plan our dream tanks in the future house and keep what we have in the 4ft tank and transfer it over when time comes..
My weakness comes down to big scores and I love to hoard stuff especially marine stuff lol.. religiously scouting FB pages, Ebay, Gumtree you name it I'm watching it! Thats when I spotted this tank on ebay.. Clicked 'By it now' with no hesitation!
So now comes the fun part.. Tank transfer! Whilst talking to a few reefers on this forum I've come up with a plan to safely transfer live stock into the new tank.
Step1. Electricity (14/12/14), I got an electrician to install power up in the ceiling so that I can suspend my LED lights off the ceiling without having cords dangling down the tank. (TICK)
Step2. Saltwater Guy (15/12/14), Fill the tank up with Saltwater. Plug Heaters and plumb the skimmer, chiller and reactors from old tank to new tank. **Add Prime**
Step3. Aquascape (16/12/14), Aquaknead and Superglue Gel, have one bucket between tanks with tank water so that when I move each LR piece I can dunk them in the tub to rinse off any detritus. NOTE: No old/new sand going into the new tank as I'll be going Barebottom!!
Step4. Corals (17/12/14), This is a hard choice to make but yet to make a full decision until the day comes to either frag the zoas up to sell off or keep all intact and overgrow the tank. As most will be glued down to existing LR.
Step5. Fish (18/12/14), 3 Tangs, 2 Blennys, 10pep shrimps, 1 mandy, 1 purple starfish. Since it's going to be a nice and slow transfer I have both tanks running the whole time, and are probably 1meter apart from each other.
Step6. Water tests each day with 100L Saltwater 100L R/O water ready to change over if needed.
I think that's about it for tonight, I hope I didn't miss anything.
Merry Xmas Fuge Family!!
Happy Reefing,
James.
My intention was never to upgrade and most likely downgrade as UNI comes first. Our intentions for the MRS and I were to plan our dream tanks in the future house and keep what we have in the 4ft tank and transfer it over when time comes..
My weakness comes down to big scores and I love to hoard stuff especially marine stuff lol.. religiously scouting FB pages, Ebay, Gumtree you name it I'm watching it! Thats when I spotted this tank on ebay.. Clicked 'By it now' with no hesitation!
So now comes the fun part.. Tank transfer! Whilst talking to a few reefers on this forum I've come up with a plan to safely transfer live stock into the new tank.
Step1. Electricity (14/12/14), I got an electrician to install power up in the ceiling so that I can suspend my LED lights off the ceiling without having cords dangling down the tank. (TICK)
Step2. Saltwater Guy (15/12/14), Fill the tank up with Saltwater. Plug Heaters and plumb the skimmer, chiller and reactors from old tank to new tank. **Add Prime**
Step3. Aquascape (16/12/14), Aquaknead and Superglue Gel, have one bucket between tanks with tank water so that when I move each LR piece I can dunk them in the tub to rinse off any detritus. NOTE: No old/new sand going into the new tank as I'll be going Barebottom!!
Step4. Corals (17/12/14), This is a hard choice to make but yet to make a full decision until the day comes to either frag the zoas up to sell off or keep all intact and overgrow the tank. As most will be glued down to existing LR.
Step5. Fish (18/12/14), 3 Tangs, 2 Blennys, 10pep shrimps, 1 mandy, 1 purple starfish. Since it's going to be a nice and slow transfer I have both tanks running the whole time, and are probably 1meter apart from each other.
Step6. Water tests each day with 100L Saltwater 100L R/O water ready to change over if needed.
I think that's about it for tonight, I hope I didn't miss anything.
Merry Xmas Fuge Family!!
Happy Reefing,
James.
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