sepulatian
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Originally Posted by briandg
I purchased the tank already, it was a good deal regardless of the fish, but she is including them. I am not able to pick up the tank for about 4 weeks because we are changing carpet before setting it up. So she still has it. I forgot to mention, she even has an anenome in it. I know it sounds bad, but it was a good deal. I just need to figure out how to get the conditions at least liveable, then I will work on making them good. I have a 55 and planned on moving her more aggressive fish like the tang to my 55 and moving some of mine over to hers and slowly reintroducing hers. But that was before I took a sample of water home and tested it. That's why I was wondering if a 75% water change would be possible without causing a crash. I need to get the trates down to a liveable condition before adding anything, especially the fish that I've carefully raised the past year. I would love to get the coral out immediately, but she is doing me a favor by keeping the tank until I get carpet, and I doubt she will be willing to do much to improve the conditions during this time. The other option I thought of, is taking all of her fish to a pet store for either store credit or if they won't do this, just give them to the store. Then I could set the tank up at my house, change out the cc to sand. Leave my tank as is, and after I get hers to acceptable levels make the change.
I really liked the tang and hoped on keeping it, but I think this might be the best alternative.
I forgot to add, she also has an anenome. She must have some tough corals and fish to still be alive.
I have better idea. Buy a large rubbermaid tub. In the mean time, get a sponge filter (it hooks up to a regular fresh water air pump) put it into your tank/sup for about 3-4 days. It will gather bacteria. Use as much of your equipment that you can spare in this tub to provide alot of biological filtration, use your rocks too, maybe a few scoops of sand. Put the fish from the 180 and whatever else is still alive in there into the tub. Use display tank water. This creates an instant environment for them. Make sure there is a heater and keep this tank stable. You can even put the lights from the 180 over this tub to give the anemone enough light. You can have this tub anywhere in the house that it needs to be in before you bring the 180 home. Just be sure to properly acclimate them into the clean environment. It will take longer because they are not used to it so clean. (I mean that, you will have to take like 4-5hrs for them to get used to the clean)
I purchased the tank already, it was a good deal regardless of the fish, but she is including them. I am not able to pick up the tank for about 4 weeks because we are changing carpet before setting it up. So she still has it. I forgot to mention, she even has an anenome in it. I know it sounds bad, but it was a good deal. I just need to figure out how to get the conditions at least liveable, then I will work on making them good. I have a 55 and planned on moving her more aggressive fish like the tang to my 55 and moving some of mine over to hers and slowly reintroducing hers. But that was before I took a sample of water home and tested it. That's why I was wondering if a 75% water change would be possible without causing a crash. I need to get the trates down to a liveable condition before adding anything, especially the fish that I've carefully raised the past year. I would love to get the coral out immediately, but she is doing me a favor by keeping the tank until I get carpet, and I doubt she will be willing to do much to improve the conditions during this time. The other option I thought of, is taking all of her fish to a pet store for either store credit or if they won't do this, just give them to the store. Then I could set the tank up at my house, change out the cc to sand. Leave my tank as is, and after I get hers to acceptable levels make the change.
I really liked the tang and hoped on keeping it, but I think this might be the best alternative.
I forgot to add, she also has an anenome. She must have some tough corals and fish to still be alive.
I have better idea. Buy a large rubbermaid tub. In the mean time, get a sponge filter (it hooks up to a regular fresh water air pump) put it into your tank/sup for about 3-4 days. It will gather bacteria. Use as much of your equipment that you can spare in this tub to provide alot of biological filtration, use your rocks too, maybe a few scoops of sand. Put the fish from the 180 and whatever else is still alive in there into the tub. Use display tank water. This creates an instant environment for them. Make sure there is a heater and keep this tank stable. You can even put the lights from the 180 over this tub to give the anemone enough light. You can have this tub anywhere in the house that it needs to be in before you bring the 180 home. Just be sure to properly acclimate them into the clean environment. It will take longer because they are not used to it so clean. (I mean that, you will have to take like 4-5hrs for them to get used to the clean)
