Hey guys, I needed some advice. I just broke down my 120, cleaned about 75% of the rock, took out the sand bed, and put it all back up. It has about 90% new water and all the rock is back in, the same bio balls were left in without cleaning them, and I went with bare bottom. The tank has been up and running for 3 days now, with turbo snails in it which are doing fine. When do you think it would be safe to add the fish? I am only putting in 3 that I have right now which are, maroon clown, purple tang and yellow tang. My tester is very difficult for me to read, but from what I can tell everything seems to be where it should be. I just dont know how well the rock made it through the cleaning, I am sure there will be some dead critters in there, this is why i didnt clean all of the rock, so that I would have some to seed the tank. Please give me your suggestions. Thanks.
safe to add fish?
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coralreefer
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How did you clean the rock?
I used the old saltwater and used an old brush, however, I had to hold a lot of it out of the water while I picked away all the plants, most of the rock I cleaned was so full of the plants that it smothered out everything else. The rock was most of the reason for my cleaning of this tank.
coralreefer
No Pistons
You shouldn't really have any die-off from doing that.
Hope you "dunked and swished" really well while you were at it.
Hope you "dunked and swished" really well while you were at it.
I added the clown last night, this morning she is perfectly fine, and very happy to be out of the small holding tank I think I may add the tangs in about 2 days, then in about two weeks I wanted to get some new fish to add. Thinking about a Clown or Humu Trigger, Factual Butterfly: False, Imperator Angel, and maybe a Yellow Boxfish. Please give opionions on those choices. Also, depends on what my fav. LFS can actually get in for me Thanks everyone
I think I may add the tangs in about 2 days, then in about two weeks I wanted to get some new fish to add. Thinking about a Clown or Humu Trigger, Factual Butterfly: False, Imperator Angel, and maybe a Yellow Boxfish. Please give opionions on those choices. Also, depends on what my fav. LFS can actually get in for me Thanks everyone
carb850
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I assume this is going to be a FOWLR? If so, maybe a cool non-reef safe wrasse. Something like a Pinkface or Harlequin Tusk. You would have to make sure they don't need sand though. Another 'different' fish might be a Lyretail Hogfish.
I'm not sure how any of the above works with inverts.
I'm not sure how any of the above works with inverts.
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