First I want to say hello to everybody because I haven't posted in forever.
Our aquarium has been maturing along nicely. It's been pretty easy to care for with so little livestock added since upgrading to a reef system in 2006 from the FO w/ (very little)LR I bought used a year earlier. Building on it was delayed because we knew we wanted to move for a long time. When we did a year ago, a relative renting our house has been caring for it until we had a permanent address. All water tests were perfect and it looked great and with every visit with the exception of recent Majorium outbreak.
We finally bought a house and moved our 55g aquarium just last night. It had great sand, lots of LR with some zoanthid and polyps among other "good" hitch hikers, a few hermits, snails, and one very cool orangish black brittle starfish. We used about 8 lidded 5g buckets with our water covering the LR, moving each piece fast to expose the least amount of air (if any). We left the sand in tank also covered by several inches our water. But our move wasn't local so with the long drive and assembling some upgrades, so we didn't get to start adding to our new 75g system until late afternoon/early evening.
Regardless of how careful we were and no exposed air, with all those stagnet, at times unheated, hours, what kind of cycle am I looking at? Our sand didn't smell too happy going in...
RondaGP
Our aquarium has been maturing along nicely. It's been pretty easy to care for with so little livestock added since upgrading to a reef system in 2006 from the FO w/ (very little)LR I bought used a year earlier. Building on it was delayed because we knew we wanted to move for a long time. When we did a year ago, a relative renting our house has been caring for it until we had a permanent address. All water tests were perfect and it looked great and with every visit with the exception of recent Majorium outbreak.
We finally bought a house and moved our 55g aquarium just last night. It had great sand, lots of LR with some zoanthid and polyps among other "good" hitch hikers, a few hermits, snails, and one very cool orangish black brittle starfish. We used about 8 lidded 5g buckets with our water covering the LR, moving each piece fast to expose the least amount of air (if any). We left the sand in tank also covered by several inches our water. But our move wasn't local so with the long drive and assembling some upgrades, so we didn't get to start adding to our new 75g system until late afternoon/early evening.
Regardless of how careful we were and no exposed air, with all those stagnet, at times unheated, hours, what kind of cycle am I looking at? Our sand didn't smell too happy going in...
RondaGP
as I am not an optimist like the Maid of the Sea.
