Fish Tank maintenance in Queens, New York

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molodets

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I am looking for someone who can maintain my 75 gallon saltwater FISH TANK.
I need someone reliable and REALLY knowlegeble, knows what he is doing.
Let me know if you are one of them.
Need someone ASAP.
I am in Queens New York.
 
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molodets

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Well, I need someone to redesign my Rocks. I am afraid if I will start moving them, my tank could crash or START a new cycle.
Also I don't even know where to start from.
 
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smartorl

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To me, you would just be wasting your money. I really think we could walk you through it very successfully with little effort.
Unless you just simply don't want to mess with it. To me, rock placement is one of the funner parts of setting up a tank.
If you want to post a before photo, we can offer our creative input and technical details and you can go with what suits you.
 
mylady

mylady

Member
I can't tell you how many times hubby has rearranged our rocks. How many times they've come crashing down afterwards too. Hubby does not find it fun LOL. In fact, I try to stay out of the room and keep the kids out of ear shot when he has to do it because of his colorful language. In all the times the rock work has been done, redone, redone again, removed and redone, we haven't had a problem, knock on wood, with a cycle restarting.
 
jdstank

jdstank

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Get some 2-part epoxy sticks when setting up your rocks and you won't have them falling over down the road. It's generally available at any hardware store and cures under water, and is non-toxic so you can apply it to the rock as is. Moving rocks around in a larger tank like a 75 isn't going to crash your tank. I've re-scaped mine several times to get it where I wanted it as new cycled rocks are added. So long as your tank is mature and already gone through it's initial cycle you should be just fine. A lot of people deliberately stir their sand every week to release nutrients into the water column for their coral - moving your rocks is a lot less impact on your tank than stirring sand where all the det. and other fish "fall-out" resides. :) Depending on how much rock you have you'll need several sticks of the epoxy. Just mold the epoxy (after you've thoroughly worked it to ensure it's ready to start curing) into a ball and find a good spot where it will make solid contact with the rock being placed on top or beside it and get to work. Once it cures you'll have a nice solid rockscape. If you're really worried and still hesitant, just prepare a large water change like 30% and do that after you've got your rocks in place.
 
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