dlwn88
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hey guys,
Just wanted to let everyone know that I upgraded my salt water tank to a 75! I’m so glad I did this, it looks incredible. I really wanted to get a 125 but being on the 2nd floor I was a bit worried about weight but mainly I didn't have the means to transport something that big. The 75 BARLEY was able to fit in my car.
Anyways, I just wanted to check to see if I'm doing everything right. I didn't move the sand over from the 40g, but there was a corner of the tank that had gravel from when I started this hobby with my 20g fowlr (seemed like a decent size then, not anymore wow lol). For filtration I was using a wet/dry sump rated for 400gph. This seemed to be more then enough for a 40g breeder and it always looked great. I moved it over to the 75g fairly quickly. Ran into a couple of issues but had it running on the new tank within 20 minutes. I also hooked up a new RENA XP3 canister filter just for added filtration, since I know the wet/dry would probably be only just enough or not quite enough. The canister itself is rated for 175g so I'm sure with both I should be just fine. When running both of these at the same time, the cloudiness from the new aragonite substrate was disappearing a lot quicker, it was completely gone within 3 hours. I did wash it several times before adding though.
I moved all my live rock over of course and the majority of items in the tank, right about 40lbs worth of LR, and even bought nearly 10 more pounds of LR a day later just to help, so I'm probably sitting at 47-50 pounds right now.
I'm worried that moving the wet/dry, the small bag of gravel, and the live rock isn't enough for some reason since I'm starting off with brand new sand. I'm afraid I'll have an ammonia spike. Was curious what you guys experienced if anything during an upgrade?
And as far as doing water changes, I changed 10-15 gallons every week with my 40g with buckets but now I'd like to change the way I do water changes of course. I've heard of people using those heavy duty trash bins, filling them up with water, mixing with salt and using a pump to add it into the aquarium. any other methods you know of to make this easier?
Sorry I don't have a photo, I'm at work right now, but I'll add one soon.
I purchased the 48' Coralife Double Bulb setup as well, and the tank looks amazing. I have an actinic bulb and a 10k daylight bulb.
Thanks!
Dave
Just wanted to let everyone know that I upgraded my salt water tank to a 75! I’m so glad I did this, it looks incredible. I really wanted to get a 125 but being on the 2nd floor I was a bit worried about weight but mainly I didn't have the means to transport something that big. The 75 BARLEY was able to fit in my car.
Anyways, I just wanted to check to see if I'm doing everything right. I didn't move the sand over from the 40g, but there was a corner of the tank that had gravel from when I started this hobby with my 20g fowlr (seemed like a decent size then, not anymore wow lol). For filtration I was using a wet/dry sump rated for 400gph. This seemed to be more then enough for a 40g breeder and it always looked great. I moved it over to the 75g fairly quickly. Ran into a couple of issues but had it running on the new tank within 20 minutes. I also hooked up a new RENA XP3 canister filter just for added filtration, since I know the wet/dry would probably be only just enough or not quite enough. The canister itself is rated for 175g so I'm sure with both I should be just fine. When running both of these at the same time, the cloudiness from the new aragonite substrate was disappearing a lot quicker, it was completely gone within 3 hours. I did wash it several times before adding though.
I moved all my live rock over of course and the majority of items in the tank, right about 40lbs worth of LR, and even bought nearly 10 more pounds of LR a day later just to help, so I'm probably sitting at 47-50 pounds right now.
I'm worried that moving the wet/dry, the small bag of gravel, and the live rock isn't enough for some reason since I'm starting off with brand new sand. I'm afraid I'll have an ammonia spike. Was curious what you guys experienced if anything during an upgrade?
And as far as doing water changes, I changed 10-15 gallons every week with my 40g with buckets but now I'd like to change the way I do water changes of course. I've heard of people using those heavy duty trash bins, filling them up with water, mixing with salt and using a pump to add it into the aquarium. any other methods you know of to make this easier?
Sorry I don't have a photo, I'm at work right now, but I'll add one soon.
I purchased the 48' Coralife Double Bulb setup as well, and the tank looks amazing. I have an actinic bulb and a 10k daylight bulb.
Thanks!
Dave