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tarball

Member
Nice sandstorm there wildman, looks like you're off to a good start..

Its going to take a couple days before sand settles down. You might want to set a separate container up with fresh saltwater in it & pull the LR out of DT & add them to container until sand bed becomes stable. If you have a skimmer or filter running shut them off also. But leave power heads running in tank.
welcome to the fun...

What size of tank is it?
 

tarball

Member
Originally Posted by Ketill
thanx for tips of filters / skimmer, just curious why turn off the Pskimer? it is a 65G.
The skimmer has nothing to lift & the sand is to heavy. All you are doing is running sand thru the skimmer pump. No need for it running. The best thing for now is for the sand bed to settle down so it can become stablized. This will take at least 3 or 4 days.
 

tarball

Member
I would also shut the sump down while sand bed stabilizes.
No need to have a bunch of sand all over the equipment in the sump. The only thing i would leave running is the power heads in the DT.
 

cprdnick

Active Member
Is that the one you had to SHOVE into your backseat? lol. That's gonna be way better than the 55G you were looking at.
 

srfisher17

Active Member
Originally Posted by Tarball
The skimmer has nothing to lift & the sand is to heavy. All you are doing is running sand thru the skimmer pump. No need for it running. The best thing for now is for the sand bed to settle down so it can become stablized. This will take at least 3 or 4 days.
Yeah, you can't skim protein when there's no protein to skim.
 

ketill

Member
yeah, thats, the one I had to fit into my hyundai accent, day two picture of tank coming up in a few minutes.
 

ketill

Member
All that rock is about 3 years old, dunno if that helped clear it up or not. on the Rock I have a few pieces of LR picked out , big chunks that had corals migrate to them, so gunna wait until everything stabalises to put them in. Will see if next time I go to my LFS if they will let me take a picture to post.
 
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