How do new stores do it?

[Digicop]

I am curious. I see online videos of a new store with all brand new tanks fully stocked with high end coral and wonder how they avoid all the setup time to get a stable enough tank to risk such inventory? Same goes for these trade shows. I would think just the move would stress the corals to adversely effect appearance.

 

[robbyg]

Using rocks and sand from established tanks.
Plus matching back all the parameters from the original tank before they introduce the corals.

 

[ScottR]

Cycling a tank is actually quite easy. I’ve seen tanks set up in an hour and house lots of livestock.

 

[SPR1968]

Stabilising the water parameters is relatively simple, and as Scott says you can cycle a tank immediately with bacteria.

My new system had 5 bottles of ATM Colony added followed an hour later by 30 fish, so it’s fairly easy to do, and the same adding the corals.

 

[Digicop]

Why do some places tell us to wait 6 months or more to add fish no mater if you use bottled bacteria?

 

[andrewkw]

Why do some places tell us to wait 6 months or more to add fish no mater if you use bottled bacteria?

There is a huge difference between starting from scratch and moving an existing tank.

If I move tomorrow the tank will get moved too. Holding my livestock in say bins vs putting it in a new glass box makes no difference other then I can enjoy it in the tank.

 

[RCS82]

Why do some places tell us to wait 6 months or more to add fish no mater if you use bottled bacteria?

Any place, or LFS, that told me you had to wait 6 months to add a fish to the tank would not get any of my business. Time to find a new place.
With enough established rock from another system you can almost do anything you want as far as setting up new systems and transferring stock. Granted, these stores and coral vendors that are setting up and moving stores, I'd bet are still cycling and making sure parameters match for a good length of time.

 

[cvrle1]

Any place, or LFS, that told me you had to wait 6 months to add a fish to the tank would not get any of my business. Time to find a new place.
With enough established rock from another system you can almost do anything you want as far as setting up new systems and transferring stock. Granted, these stores and coral vendors that are setting up and moving stores, I'd bet are still cycling and making sure parameters match for a good length of time.

This is part of the story only. Yes if you have access to established rocks from another tank (yours or someone else) then yes it can be done fast. But if you dont, then you need to give it time. There is reason everyone says patience is virtue in this hobby, and you need a lot of it. Nothing is done fast, unless you want to fail, or at least risk having a lot of issues. I would rather deal with LFS that says take 6 months before you put 1st fish in than some LFS Joe Blow that says buy these fish and cycle tank with them. If LFS told me wait 6 months, it means they are not out just to make $, but actually do care about me succeeding and their livestock surviving. Point me in the direction of such LFS and they have my business.

 

[RCS82]

This is part of the story only. Yes if you have access to established rocks from another tank (yours or someone else) then yes it can be done fast. But if you dont, then you need to give it time. There is reason everyone says patience is virtue in this hobby, and you need a lot of it. Nothing is done fast, unless you want to fail, or at least risk having a lot of issues. I would rather deal with LFS that says take 6 months before you put 1st fish in than some LFS Joe Blow that says buy these fish and cycle tank with them. If LFS told me wait 6 months, it means they are not out just to make $, but actually do care about me succeeding and their livestock surviving. Point me in the direction of such LFS and they have my business.

I wouldn't buy from either of those LFS'. And I didn't mention once that using fish to cycle a tank was the solution. I mentioned that I would surely bet that any new LFS or a moving LFS would have plenty of established rock going into their new system. That's pretty simple. If a new store has a new system or a new 900 gallon tank going up. It's pretty easy to assume they aren't filling it with 500 pounds of dry Pukani one day and then filling it with high end Acro's the next.