erock412
Member
here's what's been done so far, i'll post pics later today:
I had a 55g that was up and running for a year or so, but never had anything in it but a little bit of LR. I finally put in 2 clowns and then started posting on SWF. I realized that 55g wasnt going to be big enough for me, so i figured i'd upgrade before spending dough on the 55g. so i ordered a 125 AGA, with a perfecto stand. to expidite the process, i emptied the water from the 55DT into a spare 55 i had a baby alligator in before. i moved all the LR i had and the few hermits and fish into that tank. i kept all the sand in the old 55DT and added 60 more lbs. i filled it up and stirred the sand bed up daily for 3 days to release any detritus, ammonia, trites, trates, that may have settled in the sand. while i was waiting for the 125g to come to the LFS (it was on back-order from the manufacturer) i got a bunch of beautiful LR from a fellow SWF.com member, along with a blue hippo tang and chromis. it was a long drive home, and the tang was on her way out when we got here after spending 3+ hrs in a bucket. i put all the new LR in the tank w/ sand in case there was a cycle, which there was. the tang and chromis made it through the ordeal just fine. i'll update later with everything i did throughout the day, and post pics.
I had a 55g that was up and running for a year or so, but never had anything in it but a little bit of LR. I finally put in 2 clowns and then started posting on SWF. I realized that 55g wasnt going to be big enough for me, so i figured i'd upgrade before spending dough on the 55g. so i ordered a 125 AGA, with a perfecto stand. to expidite the process, i emptied the water from the 55DT into a spare 55 i had a baby alligator in before. i moved all the LR i had and the few hermits and fish into that tank. i kept all the sand in the old 55DT and added 60 more lbs. i filled it up and stirred the sand bed up daily for 3 days to release any detritus, ammonia, trites, trates, that may have settled in the sand. while i was waiting for the 125g to come to the LFS (it was on back-order from the manufacturer) i got a bunch of beautiful LR from a fellow SWF.com member, along with a blue hippo tang and chromis. it was a long drive home, and the tang was on her way out when we got here after spending 3+ hrs in a bucket. i put all the new LR in the tank w/ sand in case there was a cycle, which there was. the tang and chromis made it through the ordeal just fine. i'll update later with everything i did throughout the day, and post pics.