Making Sure This Sounds Good

[gatorman543]

I am preparing to hopefully fingers crossed set up my 15 gallon marine tank will weekend if the tank decides to show up

My question is does this timeline sound good


Last weekend- Sump installed, Live rock ruble put into the refiguim to being cycling.

Friday- Pick up tank drill it, and refiguium install over flow

Saturday- Set the plumbing up for the tank

Sunday- Fill with live water from a friends 75 and put in the sand

Monday- Put in live rock from my existing tank, and transfer biowheel.

Next Saturday and Sunday, begin acclimating the corals

Add two corals a day until all are in the new tank.

Sound Good

 

[Mr Miagi]

It sounds fine. If you test your water the time line on when you can start acclimating your corals will represent the best conditions you can start acclimating them too, rather than just a random guess, going by days of the week. Other than that, goodluck. Id be very impressed if you keep to that tight deadline.

 

[gatorman543]

Hey i have another quick questions, i have a glass overflow internal box, does anyone see any downfalls in that

 

[SkiFletch]

Hey i have another quick questions, i have a glass overflow internal box, does anyone see any downfalls in that

Does it have a Durso standpipe?

 

[gatorman543]

? I dont know what a durso standpipe is, please explain

 

[SkiFletch]

? I dont know what a durso standpipe is, please explain

If the tank is drilled, a durso stand pipe is often used... This points the mouth of the pipe that goes to the sump to face the bottom of the tank. Thereby preventing air from siphoning down the tube and making loud annoying gurgling sounds.

 

[gatorman543]

yeah my freinds was able to explain it to me, as or right now i am just putting my PVC that goes to my sump about 8 inchs into the tank. If a massive amount of noise is created by doing this i will installa silencer on it

 

[gatorman543]

Just thought that i would give everyone an update, the tank is now up and running, i will have pictures up in a bit hopefully, but here is my next question, my corals are all located in my friends tank which is down the street, but i dont know which ones to acclimate first most likely in two weeks

Here is the list

Sun Polyps
Small Finger Leather
Torch
Candy Cane
Brown Zoos
Orange Zoos
Blue Zoos
Purple Zoos
Open Brain
Plate Coral
Red Pimple Mushrooms
Striped Mushrooms
Another colored torch
Pilipora
Digatata
Xenia
Green Star Polpys

 

[crazyelece]

If you just set the tank up are you sure it is cycled? If it is, it is usually not a good idea to add corals for at least a month so the tank has time to settle. Also make sure the used ("live") water is really good. The water doesn't contain a very large portion of bacteria (if any at all) but it will contain the wastes of the other tank. It also will not have any nutrients that the livestock of the other tank removed.

 

[gatorman543]

the sump has been running by it self, with live rock and media for two weeks, so the cycling process will beginning, and i am going out of town so by the time i get back it will be almost a month. The live water i great, and it is the water that my corals are sitting in now since i had to break down my 5 in order to make room for the new system. But i plan on checking the levels when i get back to see if the tank has cycled and then add my corals back over one at a time. I was just trying to see in advance which corals would be better to add first

 

[gatorman543]

Hey i have a new question. The water in my main tank is very high, right at the black lip that stick out of the top, like 1/2" from the very bottom of the tank. My question is how can i lower the level, because i i just take water out of the system, it will still be the same height bceause hte sump will just fill it up again. Would cutting more teeth in my overflow do the trick maybe?

 

[SkiFletch]

Hey i have a new question. The water in my main tank is very high, right at the black lip that stick out of the top, like 1/2" from the very bottom of the tank. My question is how can i lower the level, because i i just take water out of the system, it will still be the same height bceause hte sump will just fill it up again. Would cutting more teeth in my overflow do the trick maybe?

Tough to say without pics and some insight into your design. Did you use a Durso? Did you drill the tank? And if so, how far down the wall did you drill? If you used a Durso and the level of the drilled hole is still below the current water line, then yes, reaming the teeth out deeper will lower the water in the display tank. We really need pics though to tell you for sure how to go about lowering your display level.

As for corals... Id go mushrooms, xenia, gsp, leather. Every other day. Then if things are still going ok, zoos, sun coral, and candycane. If things are still doing good, add the LPS (torch and brain), and finish off with the SPS. Even though the water in your tank came from the water in your friends tank, by the time you get corals in there, the chemistry between the two will have changed and you will need to acclimate slowly to not hurt the corals.

Edit: Also please remember that thats a high coral load and you'll need to monitor calc and alk and keep them in acceptable ranges especially for the SPS

 

[gatorman543]

Okay that sounds good, i have a calcium test kit coming with calcium if i need to add any.

The tank is drilled in the bottom right corner, with a overflow box coming to the level of the surface
THe teeth are drilled out probaly 1 - 1.5 inchs deep.

 

[gatorman543]

I cant get these dumb pictures to attach so they are on photobucket.

Here is the link tot he pictures http/s76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/wsherrill543/

 

[SkiFletch]

I think I understand, although cant exactly login to your album without the password . The trick with photobucket is to just copy and paste the line of text underneath the picture into your post as you're typing it and you'll have no troubles .

If your tank is drilled on the floor and you have an inner box, as long as your standpipe inlet is below your teeth, then you can ream the teeth deeper and lower the level in the display tank. Do you use a standpipe at all?