bought a new tank dont no what to do?

barola87

barola87

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i have an existing 110 gallon tall last night i went and bought a 150 gallon long i know the rite thing to do would use the existing live rock and water from the old tank and put it in the new tank and just replace the 40 gallons with ro water and more live rock . but heres the problem about 1 month ago i had treated the tank with copper safe i no bad thing to do. but i didnt no this at the time.so heres the question should i use new water in the new tank along with new live rock?right now its only live rock and fish but i might want to do a reef tank in the future.
 
theappe

theappe

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Well first of all you cant use make up the extra 40 gal with RO because it will lower you salinity. You need to make new saltwater. If you used copper I would use brand new water. I dont know about the rocks and the sand though?
 
scsinet

scsinet

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Originally Posted by barola87
i have an existing 110 gallon tall last night i went and bought a 150 gallon long i know the rite thing to do would use the existing live rock and water from the old tank and put it in the new tank and just replace the 40 gallons with ro water and more live rock . but heres the problem about 1 month ago i had treated the tank with copper safe i no bad thing to do. but i didnt no this at the time.so heres the question should i use new water in the new tank along with new live rock?right now its only live rock and fish but i might want to do a reef tank in the future.

How far into the future? Copper is removable with enough time. If you are looking to move to a reef in say... a year or so, then you have plenty of time to get rid of the copper.
If you have enough time, then transfer everything over, including all of the system water, and make up the difference with newly mixed, aged saltwater.
Then, run activated carbon and polyfilters in your filtration system for the next year. When a polyfilter turns green, replace it, and keep doing this until they stop turning green. Once they stop turning green, add a few cheap inverts, such as blueleg hermits, a condy anemone, perhaps a brittle star.
If those things live for at least a few months, then you are good to go!
 
team2jndd

team2jndd

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Originally Posted by renogaw
ok, from what i gather, you used copper in your old tank with your old live rock?
i can't remember what's wrong with it, but that rock will have the copper in it forever and you cannot use it with certain fish or corals. so you should probably just end up junking it.
Thats not true.
"How far into the future? Copper is removable with enough time. If you are looking to move to a reef in say... a year or so, then you have plenty of time to get rid of the copper.
If you have enough time, then transfer everything over, including all of the system water, and make up the difference with newly mixed, aged saltwater.
Then, run activated carbon and polyfilters in your filtration system for the next year. When a polyfilter turns green, replace it, and keep doing this until they stop turning green. Once they stop turning green, add a few cheap inverts, such as blueleg hermits, a condy anemone, perhaps a brittle star.
If those things live for at least a few months, then you are good to go!"
Thats more like it.
 
ejensen

ejensen

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I used copper in my tank around 8 months ago and switched to a reef tank in 2 months ago with no problems. The only real problem is it killed all the life in my LR.
 
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