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Moving tanks is always a ton of work, but if you can plan it out well it will help. My first piece of advice is to be patient and don't rush. If you rush it, you are going to have problems for a long time. Just a couple of points for you with our experience of moving tanks multiple times.
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Ok so how do you know you are a reef geek? You are excited and about you spent a Friday night drinking wine and playing with LED fixtures. We added a fixture so we now have 5 over the tank which makes the tank much brighter. We also swapped three of the blue actinic bulbs out and added red...
Prime 13 in Point Pleasant. New steakhouse that just opened a few months ago that is mind blowingly good. We have eaten there several times and it has all been amazing.
We will not be making food but we may have an interpretative dance workshop if the muse strikes me that day. Also we will have antipasto and sandwiches.
Yes you want to setup the tank, move all the sand and rock you are going to use and then add the bacteria. You want to add something alive to the tank shortly (within 24-48 hours) after adding the bacteria as the bacteria will die if there is not waste in the tank. Cleanup crew or a fish or...