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05/16/2004, 11:17 AM
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my tank!
This morning my large miniatus grouper craked my 180 gal on the bottom of the tank its an absaluty big crak water every ware so i called a few friends to come help me out to get fish in buckets clean water up ect. im rushing out in about 15 mins to buy another 180 or possibly 220 gal but my question im not going to have time to cycle this tank because the fish will have to be put in asap...is this safe my current fish are
picasso trigger miniatusgrouper snowflake moray and a porc puffer will they all live thrue the cycle thx |
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#2
05/16/2004, 11:59 AM
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Have you been able to get all the rock and such into buckets with water?
If so, then it would probably be OK. If you do this, I would feed lightly, and very closely monitor your water quality. A better option would be to get an LFS or friends to hold onto them for you, so you can be sure. Of course, for this you have to have a pretty good relationship with an LFS in your area (or friends who are in the hobby and can fit the fish. Since you have 4 fish that make a lot of waste, this would probably be safer overall. I would definitely do it this way if your rock has all been exposed this whole time, since you'll have a lot of die-off there. How did the grouper crack the tank? Dave |
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#3
05/16/2004, 12:09 PM
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it was during feeding time he got a little excited because i had some squid his favorite then he started darting around the tank hit some rock work and that went boom and all fell over
sadly i dont trust ne of my lfs with my fish and one my friends has a reef so its not fit for my fish so im gonna for adding them in a few hours the new tan is at home know i went for the 220 all my fish live rock and sand or in buckets with powerheads going so i shouldent have much die off is there a way to keep my nitrates at a minimal and ammonia while my fish are in there during the cycle? thx i hope this works out |
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#4
05/16/2004, 12:22 PM
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Quote:
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#5
05/16/2004, 12:24 PM
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OMG, I am so sorry to here that!
Do you have a bare bottom tank? You have a 230 + 180 + 55 reef? That would keep anyone busy????? I would watch your ammon. everyday, and do several water changes. Probably getting a trash can dedicated to fish water and have it ready in a wink would be a good idea as well. Keep us posted on how everyone is doing? |
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#6
05/16/2004, 12:29 PM
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thx again dave in the tank is being filled now the fish should out of there pales in about 2 hours
p.s all fish are under the 3 inch mark so i realy dont see waste products being an issue for such a large tank |
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#7
05/16/2004, 02:17 PM
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well very ones in the tank all doing well so far im girl friend just went out to but some high end water testkits hopfuly i get some good ones ne ways lets hope none die
so far so good thx again |
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05/16/2004, 05:59 PM
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OK now im getting scaredeveryones not active in the new tank or do u think i should suspect this for a few days thx for ur time
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#10
05/16/2004, 06:05 PM
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If you dont get quick answers on this thread, maybe try the disease thread for sick fish. Maybe someone there can help as well. I wish I could add something, but in all honesty I cant.
hope everything turns out! |
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05/17/2004, 03:12 AM
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I was going to suggest that maybe your friend with the reef could do a water change, and you take his water since it will already have the bacteria in it. I'm not sure how good of an idea this is, maybe someone could verify. Hopefully he's got good filtration and his Amm and Nitrite are zero. I would imagine that would help the cycling process.
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#13
05/17/2004, 07:30 AM
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It's no good using established water, it has to be the filter media that is populated with the right bacteria, did you manage to SAVE any of your filtration, if not you can borrow substrate or a filter from an established system that would give you a head start.
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05/17/2004, 11:25 AM
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Ah, well his media is all the same, so hopefully most of it is still alive.
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05/17/2004, 07:56 PM
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if you kept all of the rocks and most of the sand, you should be ok. the fish are probably freaked out because of what happened: wouldn't you?!
heh heres a good luck, anywhos
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#17
06/11/2004, 03:06 PM
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rhomknight..r u lying
as far as i can tell, rhomknight is lying...i dont think you really have that many tanks or that big of tanks..WAIT...as a matter of fact..the biggest tank you have is a 90 gal...and what is this about ur girlfirend going out to buy water test kits...i dont think you have a grifriend either...are u a chronic liar?? just wondering....
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