Good Afternoon all!
First time in 10 years rushing into something with the hobby (had to learn that lesson the hard way) and I am a little nervous:
Last July I sold my house, and moved to a temporary house for a year. When selling the house, I sold my 200G tank.
In the mean time I've been housing my fish in an old 75 gallon my LFS had. Got everything moved over (rocks and fish). About a week ago I noticed there was very little silicon left, so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the new tank, a cade reef 1200 s2... it gets here tomorrow.
Now the issue, last night I was testing all the parameters of the water with my Hannah checkers, and noticed there's about .2-.3 PPM of Copper in the water. Not sure how it got in there, but, it's in there.
SO : I am going to start fresh, new sand, new rocks, new water. I have very few corals that made it through the move, only Zoas left. (possibly due to the copper) and the following live stock : Purple tang, orange shoulder, white tail bristle tooth, mandarin goby, hawkfish, rabbit fish, marine beta, and 2 clowns. With "live sand" (from CaribSea), dry rocks, and a bottle of Turbo Start, do you all think I should be alright as long as I monitor the Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate levels? I will be taking a week off work to be able to be around the tank to make sure everything goes smooth. But wanted some more opinions.
Sadly I can not safely keep the old tank up, as I will not have room, and I am just nervous with the small amount of silicon left.
Thanks,
iinux
First time in 10 years rushing into something with the hobby (had to learn that lesson the hard way) and I am a little nervous:
Last July I sold my house, and moved to a temporary house for a year. When selling the house, I sold my 200G tank.
In the mean time I've been housing my fish in an old 75 gallon my LFS had. Got everything moved over (rocks and fish). About a week ago I noticed there was very little silicon left, so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the new tank, a cade reef 1200 s2... it gets here tomorrow.
Now the issue, last night I was testing all the parameters of the water with my Hannah checkers, and noticed there's about .2-.3 PPM of Copper in the water. Not sure how it got in there, but, it's in there.
SO : I am going to start fresh, new sand, new rocks, new water. I have very few corals that made it through the move, only Zoas left. (possibly due to the copper) and the following live stock : Purple tang, orange shoulder, white tail bristle tooth, mandarin goby, hawkfish, rabbit fish, marine beta, and 2 clowns. With "live sand" (from CaribSea), dry rocks, and a bottle of Turbo Start, do you all think I should be alright as long as I monitor the Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate levels? I will be taking a week off work to be able to be around the tank to make sure everything goes smooth. But wanted some more opinions.
Sadly I can not safely keep the old tank up, as I will not have room, and I am just nervous with the small amount of silicon left.
Thanks,
iinux
