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Rae's pics-of EVERYTHING!!!
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timschmidt
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My new 28 gallon JBJ HQI will be here tomorrow!
Aquarist007
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what is stopping you
nice purchase Tim:smokin:
Aquarist007
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Rae: what progress have you made on your sons tank?
Aquarist007
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14322808#post14322808 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by raen
I have made none!
Fill the 10 gal tank up with new salt water. Put a heater on it and bring it up to the temp of the main tank
Remove the live rock directly to the 10 gal
Remove alot of the water from the main tank so you can catch the fish ect easier
After everything is in the 10 gal take down the main tank
Rinse new argonite and put it in, put back the live rock--fill the main tank back up with preheated new salt water(if you add the water against the live rock you should not get a snow storm.
Add the fish and critters back.
If you are organized(preheat the salt water) you should have no cycling and have the new tank back in operation in less than an hour.
HumanIMDB
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Sorry Rae, I probably don't have much to offer in the way of advice. You're battling an outbreak of red slime (cyano bacteria), correct?<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14322808#post14322808 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by raen
I have made none!
How old is the tank?
Here is what I would do if the 10g nano that we had was having this problem and all of the conventional "in tank" solutions had failed; which is what I'm assuming is the case here:
- Get another 10g Tank (~$17 CAD at the local pet superstore)
- Get a new bag of substrate if I didn't have any left over
- Take a good sized piece of live rock from the existing tank and put it in the new tank
- Let the new tank sit for at least a week with a couple of powerheads and a heater but no lights
- Move some/all of the fish (depending on how many you have and the size of the rock you moved over) from the existing tank to the new tank
- Wait a week or two and then add the rest of the rock and coral
I would hate to do all of that though...is the outbreak really bad or can you just ride it out?
Aquarist007
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BTW
don't transfer any substrate from the old setup--the live rock will quickly seed the sand bed.
don't transfer any substrate from the old setup--the live rock will quickly seed the sand bed.
Aquarist007
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14323175#post14323175 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by HumanIMDB
Sounds like Scott and I are on the same page.
Always Chris
Actually I just did this last weekend with the 30 gal that burst on me.
Under one hour to completely change the tank out with new argonite
However
5 hours mopping up 30 gal of water and throwing out rugs(they were a bad idea anyways)
8 hours cleaning out the rest of the basement(because my wife ventured down to the fish room):lol: :rollface: :lol:
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Rae C.
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Hey, another split! yay Rae!
Let's see. Good news...my mandarin is fat and happy! All is stable and thriving, including the bryopsis shrubs!
The freshwater tank looks a little green, but the frog is getting fatter and the loach and pleco are happy.
Dog, cat, and birds are entertaining each other.
The kids are finally not grounded anymore. Ahh the freedom!
Let's see. Good news...my mandarin is fat and happy! All is stable and thriving, including the bryopsis shrubs!
The freshwater tank looks a little green, but the frog is getting fatter and the loach and pleco are happy.
Dog, cat, and birds are entertaining each other.
The kids are finally not grounded anymore. Ahh the freedom!
Aquarist007
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good news Rae
