135 tank journal

oh ok cool!

 

I can't see it being a problem, but you will still get a cycle of some description. Any new live rock will get some die off, so your levels will fluctuate, but in your situation I doubt it will be that much.

 

yeah well 60 or so pounds of it have been dried for a long time so thats all good i can just put that in.....but.....like 75-80 pounds are from another tank, and like 80 pounds or so are from my tank. so i will make sure everything stays in water, so i hope i will be ok, i will make sure thing are stable for at least a week.

 

does my journal suck?

 

ok so i got the 60 lbs of ratu base rock today, and i weighed it and i really got 72.5 pounds

 

ok....so any comments about what i should do?

 

when I set up my 75 gallon, I had 45 pounds of live rock cured in a rubbermaid container and had a 29 gallon with 18 pounds that had been running for 3 months. I put all new sand in the 75 along with probably 15 pounds from the 29 gallon and all new water and the 45 pounds of rock. I let that run for 3 weeks with two penguin 350 filters and my sump running with no protein skimmer, no lights. With one lonely green spotted puffer. It cycled rather quickly after two weeks ammonia and nitrite and nitrate were all at 0. I waited another week and took out about 30 gallons of water out of the 75 and put in the 18 pounds from the 29 and probably another 15 pounds of sand from the 29 and then the tank inhabitants of the 29, and then finally almost all of the water from the 29 and transferred it to the 75. No casualties and the 75 continued to test at 0 for everything, I also tested both of tanks parameters to see how far they are within each other, and tried to match each others parameters.

 

hhm....thats very interesting....i will take pics of the rock in a second....and show you how much their is, and see if i could do the same.

 

ok so here is the so called 60 pounds of ratu base rock. but its acctually 72.5 pounds so i was excited to get more! its all dead and dry and has been for a long time....i am planning on just watering it down, and then putting it in the tank right away.....let me know if i should do something different.

 

here is the chiller that i got with that 100 gallon tank i was talking about