54 Gallon Journal Thingy

[N1z]

Finally the time has come and funds are coming in to get my new tank.
Im upgrading from a juwel rio 125 to a rio 240 at a well good price of £276 so my work is only making a fiver on me oh how i love my 25% discount!
Ok but enough of that.
Now im only in the starting stages but i thght id get the post going as i keep going on about it to u lot so about time i showed me doing things.

Here it my tank from today well say 3 hours before my skimmer came in the post

Then my bodge job for now with the new tmc v2 400 skimmer. its really nice! but only bad thing is placing all the silly pumps and boxes!

Now thanks for sfo5 ive got my ro unit to work and have been filling up 25 litre buckets VERY SLOWLY but heres a pic

Then it being in a huge tub, thats being oxygenated. and heated later on

The salt im using is seachem reef salt it does 200 litres for 18 quid which i thght was not bad.

You can also see a sieo m620 pump in there too i will be getting 2 of these to do 20x my total water in movement.

Im getting the tank on sat and starting work on it on sunday.
One question i have if i get same temp, ph and saltyness can i just put the corals and fish in the tank with my water too?

I will be selling my tang but as navarr says its bit unfair to treat such a big fish in a small tank even in my new one, but also my cardinal which i hate (mum bought it by accident) and 2 green chromos as they were used to help cycle my live rock stage.

So in total on my new tank i will be running my:

Ehiem pro 2224 external which later will be filled with live rock, More purigen and phosphate remover.
2 sieo m620 powerheads
t6 lightbulbs (equivilent to t5s but they fit t8 slot), and later on prehaps dill in 2 t5 bulbs onto the hood for extra light
Hoping a UV too depends on cash
I dunno how much live rock ive got at the moment but ill weigh it up later then buy from there.
I dunno how much sand but ive orderd in 2 types of sand to buy 24kg each and see wot they look like then go from there.

If there is anything u wanna query me on id like that and def take into account but if its money u have to see i aint the richest 17yr old But intotal its costing me £540 which is not bad i thght.

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

Sounds pretty cool

I'd say you should acclimatise all your livestock to help them adjust to all the parameters even if they are very close.

You tank is 72 gallons? I thought that is more than enough for a yellow tang but Nav is the master
I do wonder if it would end up in bigger tank than the one your getting though

Look forward to pics of the new tank

 

[N1z]

is it! haha wow i thght it was smaller, despite it saying practicalfishkeeping it was roughly that too. Oh bollocks need another tub for water lmao!
Yer thats wot i thght but i mean if anything i can always get one later on prehaps after have a good edbate over it but for now i think anywway it be good idea, as then only things in the tank will be a clown, pink spotted goby, dwarf angle, cleaner shrimp and a sifting star. tell u whatwhen i get go to work today ill take some pics of the tank then sunday time to start the changing over : well excited although place will look like a bombsite

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

Sounds Good

Do you work in your LFS?

 

[N1z]

Sounds Good

Do you work in your LFS?

Yer i do but only freshwater ohwell makes it more interesting when i come home lol.
Ok here is my tank

Now i dont want the filter in there as its huge and waste of time i think so im cutting it out with a knife, all u need it gutts and a bit of a push with it and it will slice off.

Then use some pads of some sort and scrap the exess off with a knife also and after that u end up with this

Now im going to world of fishes tomoz to sell my fish but also im looking at buying argonite sand 30 quid a packet or sumit rip off but ohwell worth it i suppose they weith like 25lbs so ill need 2 right?

 

[richard t]

I was under the impression the rio 240 had a water volume of 240ltrs.
This converts to 52.8gal not 72gal. And with the water that is displaced by LR tank volume is probably no more than 45-50gal

Are you going to install a sump? If not i would suggest your new tank will be to small to house a Tang long term.

If you have a large flow rate in your tank this may help the Tang fulfil its need to swim (like a tread mill)

I love the new V2 protein skimmer. Great bit of kit for the price.

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

The online volume calculator i use worked it out to be 72 US Gallons or 60 UK Gallons. As pretty much everyone here uses US gallons we could say 72

If people were going to give tangs 125g of swimming space they'd need a 1000 gallon tank to make up for the room taken up by LR.

Niz - I thought we had to be 18 to work with Live animals? I applied for a job down the LFS but they said that

 

[N1z]

Yes i know im taking it back tomoz after 6 months of happyness lol but i dont mind if anything it be easier to then change over the fish into new tank.
Its good the bubble stop aint amazing and i aint very good atm in getting it to skimmer properly as last time i did it it overflowed onto carpet .
Really? im 17, started last year when i was 16 i only work part time but saying that ive been working more to make up funds plus i get cash in hand so no tax .

So is argonite the best sand to have?

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

Most people seem to prefer it over coral sand

 

[N1z]

Ok today i took back my yellow tang, 2 green chromos and a cardinal. got 22 quid credit and bought 60lb of argonite sand. i hope its enough if not another 25 quid

Ill start to change the tank on sunday so more piccers then

Also Just to say sf05 that remeber my ro worries about the psi being too low, well i finally fitted a pressure gauge and guess wot, the minimum is 60psi for the thing to work properly well i tested it in 2 places, one straight from the tap and the line that goes up into the top chamber and the reading was..... 60PSI!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA YAY i dont need to buy a booster!