reaquascaping 60gal ..few ?'s

[coral acquisition]

hi im thinking of taking out all my liverock and whatever i have it in and reaquascape my tank. i was wondering how long i can keep the liverock, mushrooms, zoa's and forgspawn out of the main tank so i have time to clean the sand top and lever the sand right.

i can do it all in a day but was wondering how it would affect the chemical balance in the tank. i heard that if you mess with the sand too much that it would release nitrates or something?

how much water change do i have to do in the 60gal to keep it balanced?

thanks

 

[xenon]

Re: reaquascaping 60gal ..few ?'s

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9228962#post9228962 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by euphoricgear
hi im thinking of taking out all my liverock and whatever i have it in and reaquascape my tank. i was wondering how long i can keep the liverock, mushrooms, zoa's and forgspawn out of the main tank so i have time to clean the sand top and lever the sand right.

i can do it all in a day but was wondering how it would affect the chemical balance in the tank. i heard that if you mess with the sand too much that it would release nitrates or something?

how much water change do i have to do in the 60gal to keep it balanced?

thanks

Keep everything in rubbermaid buckets filled with SW and your golden. Live rock itself can stay outside of water for 1hr tops. Keep a spray bottle handy if you need more time.

 

[dendro982]

Recently finished reaquascaping of 90g:
- what couldn't be moved from one part of tank to another - was moved to temporary tanks or plastic containers with 2/3 of old saltwater, each with heater and powerhead.
- Tied LR rubble to the eggcrate for may be 4 hrs (outside the tank, exposed to the air and temperature 72F), covered each finished small area by paper towels, made wet in saltwater. No ammonia spike after that.

Non-spiny corals could be placed into plastic bags with saltwater, these - into carton or styrofoam box with handmade carton dividers. But there are no water movement and heating.

The corals that survived this kind of treatment for 12 hrs during shipping to me, even at temperature, lower than at room, were: white xenia, red mushrooms, birdsnest, elkhorn sps, neon-green candycane, hammers and frogspawn, anthelia and a different macroalgae.

 

[coral acquisition]

kul guess i'll start tonight thanks