125 G Stocking

[mantisman51]

I have gone to a "fish calculator" and I know I'm alright, for now, with the fish I have: 1-7" lined puffer, 1-4" yellow tang, 1-3" spotted hawkfish, 1-3" false perc and 1 lawn mower blenny. I have a Fluval 404 and a 50 gal fluval in tank aerating filter. I am not having any issues (two months since I added the tang and clown) with water quality. Here's the question: I have ordered a 3-4" vagabond butterfly, a royal gramma, another clown and a flame cardinal. I am officially over stocked when the new SWF.com shipment arrives. I am going to add a 50 gal refugium. I think a skimmer is mandatory now, also. My eyes were bigger than my tank. Do you think that my extra filtering will be enough? I do have a torn down 55 gal salt tank in my living room that I was planning on setting up as a QT tank. Any ideas would be great. FWIW I have a coral banded shrimp(huge 6" head to tail), 12 blue and scarlet hermits and that's it. Cleaner clams, nassarius and turbo snails all died within 24 hours of getting in my tank. I don't think SWF.com stock was to blame, but all water parameters were perfect and I did a 3 hour drip acclimation on them(oh yeah the cucumber was dead w/in 24 hours also).

 

[kjr_trig]

I have seen more overstocked tanks, but you definately need a skimmer ASAP! Will you have to do a hang on skimmer or will you be able to do it in your sump when you add it? How much live rock if any do you have? Where do you keep your specific gravity at? All inverts do better with it around 1.025. I'm really surprised that your puffer would allow any inverts to be in the tank.

 

[mantisman51]

Thanks. I have a Jebo 182 that will be here tomorrow. I know it's a cheapo, but after checking the LFS, all of them are made in China, so what the hay? My order with SWF.com is pending to be sent out tomorrow, so I'm in good shape. The sg is 1.024 on the button. The lined puffer mainly grazes algae and eats flakes. I've had him over a year and a half and he rarely eats the frozen food I feed the fish. He seems to be almost a vegetarian. Also, one quick question: I have restarted my 55 gal sw tank for a quarintine tank. I am using a 6 month old underwater 50 gal filter and I put 35 gal of water from my 125 gal tank. I shouldn't have to worry about recycling the tank since I have an established filter and used mostly water from the already cycled 125 gal tank, do I? I did a 50 gal water change on the 125 about 10 days ago and all params were 0 , except the nitrate was barely registering, not even 10.

 

[mantisman51]

The Jebo is a HOT. The sump is not set up. I am having an issue with figuring out how to get the water flow evened out. I have to research more, because what I have is a 35 gal rubbermaid tub and I put a power head in the tank and a power head in the tub. I think I'm doing this wrong, because even though they are both 360gph, They are not pumping the same and I am having the tank/sump filling and draining at different speeds. I have the sump empty and am frustrated at my lack of knowledge. I am probably doing this ALL wrong, but this is my first stab and what I thought made sense has turned into a really funny comedy, of sorts.

 

[mantisman51]

Also, I have 75 lbs of live rock.I keep the tank light on most of the time so the puffer, Tang and lawn mower blenny have plenty of grazing. It's probably over-kill, but they eat the algae about as fast as it grows.

 

[mantisman51]

One last clarifier: that is one 3-4" butterfly, not three 4" butterflies. If the stock calculator is correct, I'm over by 3", so I'm a little less concerned. I read the -- link you had on the other thread. That is complicated. I see that my main issue is getting an automatic on/off switch for the powerhead in the sump/refugium thing. That makes much more sense now.

 

[bioneck47]

Originally Posted by mantisman51
http:///forum/post/2717811
The Jebo is a HOT. The sump is not set up. I am having an issue with figuring out how to get the water flow evened out. I have to research more, because what I have is a 35 gal rubbermaid tub and I put a power head in the tank and a power head in the tub. I think I'm doing this wrong, because even though they are both 360gph, They are not pumping the same and I am having the tank/sump filling and draining at different speeds. I have the sump empty and am frustrated at my lack of knowledge. I am probably doing this ALL wrong, but this is my first stab and what I thought made sense has turned into a really funny comedy, of sorts.
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