Well I'm starting to get things going on my new tank setup (75g acyrlic, 30g sump and 55g refuge) and I'm a little stumped on my live rock situation. I think I'm doing things right on how to reseed it but I just want to make sure that I'm doing things right. My last attempt was going down hill when I had a 55g setup so I tore everything down and let the live rock dry in a bucket for about 6 months. Now I finally have the funds to do things right and start my tank back up. I went ahead and boiled my rocks to make sure any odd crap was dead on them and figure that once I have water in all my tank systems to use this rock as a base and seed it with some uncured liverock to kick things off, is this the way to go about doing this?
As mentioned I got a 75g acrylic setup with a closed loop system to it 4 returns with a "squid" current thing on them and a 3500gph pump (or something like that...lots of flow to it). I figure from their run a overflow into my 30g makeshift sump/refuge. run my skimmer, uv stearilizer heaters and so on and plant a few mangroves in my upper section that I made for them. From their pump things into a 55g tank that will be for a refugeium setup then pump it all back into the main tank. this sound like a good idea. For lights I have a aquaspace light with 4 T-12's?...(small size bulbes 2 blues 2 whites) for the 55g along with 2 compact florecents for the mangroves at this point. For the main tank the plan is to run 2 or 3 of my T5 (bigger diamiter lights) and 2 250 halides.
I'm still in the precess of setting things up so any input or advise would be great. I've done this before 2x but kind of half assed things and made some bad decisions in the past, this time I'd like to do things right.
As mentioned I got a 75g acrylic setup with a closed loop system to it 4 returns with a "squid" current thing on them and a 3500gph pump (or something like that...lots of flow to it). I figure from their run a overflow into my 30g makeshift sump/refuge. run my skimmer, uv stearilizer heaters and so on and plant a few mangroves in my upper section that I made for them. From their pump things into a 55g tank that will be for a refugeium setup then pump it all back into the main tank. this sound like a good idea. For lights I have a aquaspace light with 4 T-12's?...(small size bulbes 2 blues 2 whites) for the 55g along with 2 compact florecents for the mangroves at this point. For the main tank the plan is to run 2 or 3 of my T5 (bigger diamiter lights) and 2 250 halides.
I'm still in the precess of setting things up so any input or advise would be great. I've done this before 2x but kind of half assed things and made some bad decisions in the past, this time I'd like to do things right.