Hello all,
I have a biocube that's about 5 months old with a Ecotech gen4 pro light on it.
I have several types of coral from zoas to acros in the tank. Most if not all are doing well. The zoas and torches are growing fast, the acros, doing well but not growing too fast. The 2 monti caps are growing but slowly.
My question is, I have now set up a 120 gallon with pukani rock and sand. The Pukani has cycled for 7 weeks and in the past few days I added snails, crabs and 3 small tangs. All seem to be doing well. My water parameters are right in line with next to zero phosphates, no nitrites or nitrates. Calc is 480 and alk is 8.2. Salt is 1.025. I have 2 filter bags, a protein skimmer, a refugium, live rock all in a 34 gallon trigger sump. oh and a reef saver overflow with bean animal. I stay on top of my parameters in the biocube and will with the new tank. I check it pretty much daily.
Do you think its ok to move the acros to the new tank yet? How mature does the new tank have to be to try to add the acros? I'm going to add a couple of torches and zoas today. I seem to remember I added acros to the biocube after about 2 months and only lost one, but I think that was my fault in mixing the pest control treatment before adding to the tank. The new tank has the Ecotech gen 4 lights too. I'd like the move the monti caps and my digitata I have a couple WWC acros like the lucky charms I want to move but I'm scared to move them too quickly since they are doing well in the other tank. However, I did buy them with the purpose of moving them to the larger tank and allowing them to grow there.
thanks
Mike
Also, would you retreat for bugs before moving even tho I don't see any issues in the biocube?
I have a biocube that's about 5 months old with a Ecotech gen4 pro light on it.
I have several types of coral from zoas to acros in the tank. Most if not all are doing well. The zoas and torches are growing fast, the acros, doing well but not growing too fast. The 2 monti caps are growing but slowly.
My question is, I have now set up a 120 gallon with pukani rock and sand. The Pukani has cycled for 7 weeks and in the past few days I added snails, crabs and 3 small tangs. All seem to be doing well. My water parameters are right in line with next to zero phosphates, no nitrites or nitrates. Calc is 480 and alk is 8.2. Salt is 1.025. I have 2 filter bags, a protein skimmer, a refugium, live rock all in a 34 gallon trigger sump. oh and a reef saver overflow with bean animal. I stay on top of my parameters in the biocube and will with the new tank. I check it pretty much daily.
Do you think its ok to move the acros to the new tank yet? How mature does the new tank have to be to try to add the acros? I'm going to add a couple of torches and zoas today. I seem to remember I added acros to the biocube after about 2 months and only lost one, but I think that was my fault in mixing the pest control treatment before adding to the tank. The new tank has the Ecotech gen 4 lights too. I'd like the move the monti caps and my digitata I have a couple WWC acros like the lucky charms I want to move but I'm scared to move them too quickly since they are doing well in the other tank. However, I did buy them with the purpose of moving them to the larger tank and allowing them to grow there.
thanks
Mike
Also, would you retreat for bugs before moving even tho I don't see any issues in the biocube?
