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The problem is your tank is not going to be equipped to handle bio load at this point. It needs something to kick off an amonia level (fish poop, raw shrimp, intant cycle) that is going to start your bacteria breaking down bad stuff. If you just add fish now after doing nothing, that is when you...

Do you have anything to start the cycle like a piece of raw shirmp, a damsel, or instant cycle additive? You need to give the bacteria something to feed on to really jump start your cycle.

Your next task is to learn the spanish to try and describe reefing to them. You might need more than 11 days down there. Great pics btw, I am with John though, vacation means doing as little as possible and drinking as much as possible.

I feel like looper after today. Basically carrying 11 5g jugs of water up a flight of stairs, moving all the livestock back to the apartment, and moving all our stuff. Very tired tonight, will be dosing the instant cycle tomorrow, 2 of the tanks are still opaque after adding in the live sand.

Taz here is the thread from RC on cleaning your sand: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1790685&page=2 The trick seems to be clean the top of the sand every now and again, and do deep cleans when you are ready for a water change.

First trip to Trop is complete. 20g is full of water and sand and we are just letting the sand settle at this point. The 30g has about 10g of water in it and we are off to pick up some more. The instant cycle stuff was Dr. Tim and we picked up ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite test kits considering...

Get a siphon to clean the sand . You suck up a bit at a time. I posted a link in another thread, but I am posting froma cell.

If our little episode helps people in the future, we can at least take solace in that.

Update: All the surviving fish are still alive and active. We brought the light fixture over from the 20g (5 bulb T5) and laid that on top of the tank to give everything some light and put the fish back into their normal sleep/awake cycle. Corals we are losing a quite a bit of SPS corals. The...

So here it the plan for tomorrow now that the power is back on: Empty and clean the 20g we are going to replace the sand, not going to leave anything to chance at this point. Refill the tanks with water and add the instant cycle. Rinse the live rock off with the salt water we are mixing tonight...

I know they have some of the instant cycle stuff at Trop, and we need to get water there anyway, so I will pick it up there. We will not be making the meeting as our whole weekend (three days for me) will be putting the fish tanks back together along with the rest of our apartment. Our fridge...

I forgot to mention have good beer on hand as well, when you are done you will need several. I had some Ommegong Chocolate Indulgence and Rochefort 10 which helped get me through. I like those air pumps, will have to add them to the buy list. Our biggest problem was heat, the apartment is on...

If you read our other post you know we still do not have power and moved everything we could out of our tanks. I have a few questions for those out there when our power does come back on The tanks are sitting stagnant about half full with live rock and sand in them. We left a bunch of inverts...

As many of you know, we lost power around 10 30 pm Wednesday and we still do not have it back on. We live on the second floor over a business and are just renting. I had a dremel and drill charged just in case to provide water movement in our tanks (12g 20g 30g) and felt pretty good if we lost...

We are going on 24 hours without power still not on. I will give a full update tomorrow been posting from my cell for the last day. I am very lucky my parents lived close and had power. This weekend will be interesting, will be asking a lot of questions tomorrow.

I guess I am a reefer now, tank crash. Everything has been moved to my parents house. Minimal fish loss we will see with the corals. Big thanks to gregw and mikem for their help and offers we will see how things go. Everyone should buy a generator

Everything in here is electric kinda sol

Greg thanks for theoffer but can't in the snow with my car. Just will be wait and see. Snow is pretty bad here right now going on 1 hour without power

So we just lost power as well and it looks like the whole street did not good. Now I charged my dremel and we can attach something to it to stir the water surface. Problem is three tanks so for how long and at what intervals to run it

Toadstool, soft coral.