a year and a half in the planning
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So an update at 5 months, I will move the tank next saturday, nothing (I think) will be left to chance during the move. I have given away most of my sps as the nem has grown. I will put a shallow sand bed in the tank when moved and take all the fish but the clowns and the potters to my other tanks.
I am moving about a third of the water and making up the rest new with red sed coral pro salt (it has the least harsh alk so as not to shock the nem).
Fingers crossed.
I am moving about a third of the water and making up the rest new with red sed coral pro salt (it has the least harsh alk so as not to shock the nem).
Fingers crossed.
Well the tank move had its ups and downs, the nem took about an hour to move off the glass. I siphoned the water down to the foot and began to work the nem off with a credit card. as the foot came off I siphoned a bit of water and repeated the process untill the foot finally released.
The down part to this was that as I was siphoning the water I did not notice my other fish were darting around and they strayed into the nem, I lost a potters angel and a mimic tang and a dispar anthias, the nem coughed up the fish ( not the dispar) later.
The nem and clowns were transferred to a bucket with a portable bubbler attached. The guys who built the tank then moved it and a third of the water.
I put the new caribsea livesand in the tank and the rocks ( which have sps attached and were moved dry with a salt water soaked towel over them in a poly box, the corals were fine for two and a half hours out of the water!) and then gently filled the tank and switched on.
Two hours later I put the nem and clowns in, they settled in right away and went were I wanted them too
. So far the nem has not showed any signs of distress. However I can now attest first hand to why these nems are so delicate, the foot and column are very thin and how they are extracted from a rock in the wild, without being damaged, is completely beyond me.
Here are a few shots of the new setup, which will be a nem species tank primarily.
The down part to this was that as I was siphoning the water I did not notice my other fish were darting around and they strayed into the nem, I lost a potters angel and a mimic tang and a dispar anthias, the nem coughed up the fish ( not the dispar) later.
The nem and clowns were transferred to a bucket with a portable bubbler attached. The guys who built the tank then moved it and a third of the water.
I put the new caribsea livesand in the tank and the rocks ( which have sps attached and were moved dry with a salt water soaked towel over them in a poly box, the corals were fine for two and a half hours out of the water!) and then gently filled the tank and switched on.
Two hours later I put the nem and clowns in, they settled in right away and went were I wanted them too
. So far the nem has not showed any signs of distress. However I can now attest first hand to why these nems are so delicate, the foot and column are very thin and how they are extracted from a rock in the wild, without being damaged, is completely beyond me.Here are a few shots of the new setup, which will be a nem species tank primarily.
BangkokMatt
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You're welcome
My favourite part of the move was carrying 19 litres of water about 3/4 km in the Bangkok heat
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