Backreefing
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This weekend I finally got my 37 gal to a 90 gal upgrade done . It’s been a couple days and everything seams well .
the aquarium is a mostly SPS tank . It’s got a few acropora and Several montipora, and two birdsnest corals . Oddly my bird of paradise looks happier then it did in the old aquarium.
Some of the preparations I did was to add gravel to the old aquarium to make it 3-4” deep . ( my thinking was to have a lot of cycled gravel for the upgrade) also over the past few water changes ( monthly) I vacuumed the gravel one third at a time so it wouldn’t be filthy.
another preparation was mixing more then enough to water in brute cans , and pre washing new crushed coral gravel in advance .
mine other thing I think was important that I had done is I put all the filter media into the new canister filter. Tomorrow I will check parameters, but because the new water matched almost perfectly and everything seams happy. I would bet that nothing is wrong.
the aquarium is a mostly SPS tank . It’s got a few acropora and Several montipora, and two birdsnest corals . Oddly my bird of paradise looks happier then it did in the old aquarium.
Some of the preparations I did was to add gravel to the old aquarium to make it 3-4” deep . ( my thinking was to have a lot of cycled gravel for the upgrade) also over the past few water changes ( monthly) I vacuumed the gravel one third at a time so it wouldn’t be filthy.
another preparation was mixing more then enough to water in brute cans , and pre washing new crushed coral gravel in advance .
mine other thing I think was important that I had done is I put all the filter media into the new canister filter. Tomorrow I will check parameters, but because the new water matched almost perfectly and everything seams happy. I would bet that nothing is wrong.
