My friend is selling me his 55 gallon tank for 130. He has to move a lot, and wanting to sell it. Right now all he has in it is some live sand, a small chunk of live rock He also has s clown fish, and a tomato clown fish.The only downside is, he has brown algae all in the sand, and i can also see it on the piping for the filter inside the thank. What are some helpful tips to move the tank, and fish? He lives only about two miles from me, so it is not a really long drive to move the tank.
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chrispmcgill
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thanks for the info!
Aquarist007
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Put half of the water in buckets
Place the rock and fish in one of the buckets
Drain the tank and get rid of the sand except for one cup of it
At the new place
rinse some new sand and place it in the tank, seed it with the cup of old live sand
add the old water and then top up with new salt water
add back the clown fish and live rock
each week or with each purchase add 10 lbs of new live rock until you have 50 lbs in there
Alaska_Phil
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You don't have to throw out the old sand, you can rinse it out in a bucket with a hose and re-use it. just keep rinsing it till the water comes up clear. Then seed as Capn described. I've done this a couple times now when I've moved tanks without a problem.
Phil
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I'm new and looking forward to firing up a reef tank, but with only fresh water experience.
I read about sumps and see this list;
"...calcium reactor, a denitrifier, a phosphate-removing reactor, a place for filtration media such as GAC (granulated activated carbon), a Kalkwasser reactor, various probes to measure common water values and an automated top-off system (float or switch). Wow, that's a lot of stuff! "
While window shopping, I see leather corals, candy cane corals, mandarins, a tang, brains, gorgonians, wrasses, some little crabs, a red and white sponge, and clams that I like.
Is there a list anywhere of which of these pieces of equipment are good for which of the animals I like? How do I know what to get for a first tank?
I read about sumps and see this list;
"...calcium reactor, a denitrifier, a phosphate-removing reactor, a place for filtration media such as GAC (granulated activated carbon), a Kalkwasser reactor, various probes to measure common water values and an automated top-off system (float or switch). Wow, that's a lot of stuff! "
While window shopping, I see leather corals, candy cane corals, mandarins, a tang, brains, gorgonians, wrasses, some little crabs, a red and white sponge, and clams that I like.
Is there a list anywhere of which of these pieces of equipment are good for which of the animals I like? How do I know what to get for a first tank?
Reefer_Madnes
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Adding to favorites..Thanks alot
fredanthony
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Alright, already save the bellyaching for your Mama! It appears some of you crybabies miss your security blanket--the Old Newbie Corner Feedback Thread. "Well", I said, "ain't that too darn Bad!" However, with <b><a href="http://reefkeeping.com" target="_blank">Reefkeeping Magazine</a></b> now back I guess we can have a new thread for you whinnying Newbies.
For those of you new to Reef Central, I'm Waterkeeper and I'm glad you have located our board. I'm sort of the drill instructor for Newbies and have written so many threads or articles that I have worn out about a dozen computer keyboards. For those of you that are old timers and just like to hang around this forum-Get a life.
Anyway, each month Reefkeeping Magazine has an article in what we call the-
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In these articles we try to give the neophyte pointers on how to start out in this exciting hobby. I wrote most of the original articles but, thank goodness, we now have several new authors to provide insight into the fundamentals of a marine reef tank.
This month we have Nate Enders writing about The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Newbies and for September Paul Whitby will be talking about pests- like Newbi...I mean aiptasia.
Feel free to post any questions you have on the monthly article in this thread and, as I learned from the past thread, just about any question your feeble Newbie mind can conjure up.
If you have ideas for an article please let us know and we will try (usually not very hard) to come up with an article on that topic.
Here are the articles to date
Water
Tank Selection
Lighting
Sumps
Completing The Set-up
Natural Filtration I
Natural Filtration II
Natural Filtration III
Various Nutrient Control Methods
Adding Some Science to Your Tank, Part 1
Adding Some Science to Your Tank, Part 2
Let's Fatten Them Up!
Bogus Information
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Newbies
Pests, Parasites and Things That Go Munch in the Night, Part 1
Ok, Ok, stop shuffling aimlessly about. We'll have more good poop for you next month. Fall-out!
Awesome info here.. thanks!
Aquarist007
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That is aptasia. Aka glass anemone.get rid of it before they overtake your tank
Aquarist007
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Hey guys, sorry i diddnt know where else to post this but is this normal or does it look like its dying?
I find leathers do this more often if the temp of the tank gets close to 84
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Hi all I'm new here and wanted to get your thoughts. Current tank is a 240 with a 67 gallon sump. It took a lot longer to get the stand made than thought so I placed all my live rock and sand in a 170 gallon insulated tote for about a 6 weeks. Treated it with ammonia for the 6 weeks (every time the ammonia levels would drop I would add more). We set up the tank 10 days ago added the live rock and sand and new water. Ammonia has been between 0 and .25. Added some damsels a week in and still nothing. Here's the question did I retard the cycle or will it still cycle?
Your thoughts
Hi all I'm new here and wanted to get your thoughts. Current tank is a 240 with a 67 gallon sump. It took a lot longer to get the stand made than thought so I placed all my live rock and sand in a 170 gallon insulated tote for about a 6 weeks. Treated it with ammonia for the 6 weeks (every time the ammonia levels would drop I would add more). We set up the tank 10 days ago added the live rock and sand and new water. Ammonia has been between 0 and .25. Added some damsels a week in and still nothing. Here's the question did I retard the cycle or will it still cycle?
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Aquarist007
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First of all I would remove the fish since you are exposing it to great stress with ammonia present
You did not need to add ammonia in the past. There would have been enough die off on the rock to cycle the bacteria.
I would remove the fish and let the rock cycle the ammonia itself. It will probably take longer now as the rock has absorbed ammonia and nitrates from the way you tried to cycle it in the tote
OceanBeauTy
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I can't get these links to open any idea why? Thank you
OceanBeauTy
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Aquarist007
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What links are you referring to
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