here's my current 10 gallon...
I'm moving across town and getting married in a month. Here's the expected upgrade, an 18" ADA cube:
Here's my thinking on livestock:
transfer all inhabitants (birdsnest, green acro, orange monti cap, gsp, xenia, frogspawn, candy cane, two scolymias, and one newly-purchased clown who is currently in QT)
buy another clown or a six-line, plus a yellow watchman or a midas blenny
add 15 lbs. of live rock (hopefully going to be curing this over the next month on my porch) and about 5 lbs. of live sand
I'll have a total of 25 lbs. of rock and 10 lbs. of sand in the new tank
Here's my thinking on equipment:
closed loop powered by an Eheim 1250 (running my chiller)
2 koralia nanos
2 aquaclear 35's
small cpr aquafuge, powered by a maxijet 600 attached to a surface skimmer
20" 150W sunpod
All equipment will be off the back, which I'll paint black. The aquafuge will sit on a shelf behind the tank, so as not to stress the frameless ADA cube. Don't want any disasters in the new place!
I'm thinking that there might be a mini-cycle when I add all the stuff to the new tank. Should I keep the SPS in the QT tank until things settle, or would it be best to just toss it all in and hope for the best? Should I expect another diatom outbreak? Hopefully there will be no cyano this time... that took a long time to conquer in the 10 gallon!
Any advice or thoughts?
I'm moving across town and getting married in a month. Here's the expected upgrade, an 18" ADA cube:
Here's my thinking on livestock:
transfer all inhabitants (birdsnest, green acro, orange monti cap, gsp, xenia, frogspawn, candy cane, two scolymias, and one newly-purchased clown who is currently in QT)
buy another clown or a six-line, plus a yellow watchman or a midas blenny
add 15 lbs. of live rock (hopefully going to be curing this over the next month on my porch) and about 5 lbs. of live sand
I'll have a total of 25 lbs. of rock and 10 lbs. of sand in the new tank
Here's my thinking on equipment:
closed loop powered by an Eheim 1250 (running my chiller)
2 koralia nanos
2 aquaclear 35's
small cpr aquafuge, powered by a maxijet 600 attached to a surface skimmer
20" 150W sunpod
All equipment will be off the back, which I'll paint black. The aquafuge will sit on a shelf behind the tank, so as not to stress the frameless ADA cube. Don't want any disasters in the new place!
I'm thinking that there might be a mini-cycle when I add all the stuff to the new tank. Should I keep the SPS in the QT tank until things settle, or would it be best to just toss it all in and hope for the best? Should I expect another diatom outbreak? Hopefully there will be no cyano this time... that took a long time to conquer in the 10 gallon!
Any advice or thoughts?