THESTRZA
Active Member
Hey there!
My name is Mike and I very quickly became the owner of a beautiful 66 gallon RedSea 250 all in one tank with some beautiful fish in it yesterday. I sniped it for a crazy deal as it is a pretty clean, fairly new tank (a little over a year old). My father and I spur of the moment transferred the tank to my house last night in a very productive 5 hours.
I reused 85-90% of the original tank water (still have 10 fresh gallons leftover) and fully replaced the sand with 60 lbs of “live sand”. I’m a little worried with some the rock that contacted sand originally is now exposed due to some movement as I added water. All of the fish/snails/shrimp survived the journey and one piece of coral did well. The other two seem a bit sad. I literally preordered a new 75 gallon tank a day before to start my journey with a brand new setup and this appeared very suddenly, virtually out of nowhere. The fish seem very comfortable and were very active today. I’ve been cycling bright lights from 7-5 and night mode from 5pm to 7.
My plan is to go extremely slow and get the tank to 100% before I begin to grow coral. I have so much to learn and am excited to do so!
Do you have any suggestions aside from testing all of my levels in my water?
Thanks and nice to meet you all!
My name is Mike and I very quickly became the owner of a beautiful 66 gallon RedSea 250 all in one tank with some beautiful fish in it yesterday. I sniped it for a crazy deal as it is a pretty clean, fairly new tank (a little over a year old). My father and I spur of the moment transferred the tank to my house last night in a very productive 5 hours.
I reused 85-90% of the original tank water (still have 10 fresh gallons leftover) and fully replaced the sand with 60 lbs of “live sand”. I’m a little worried with some the rock that contacted sand originally is now exposed due to some movement as I added water. All of the fish/snails/shrimp survived the journey and one piece of coral did well. The other two seem a bit sad. I literally preordered a new 75 gallon tank a day before to start my journey with a brand new setup and this appeared very suddenly, virtually out of nowhere. The fish seem very comfortable and were very active today. I’ve been cycling bright lights from 7-5 and night mode from 5pm to 7.
My plan is to go extremely slow and get the tank to 100% before I begin to grow coral. I have so much to learn and am excited to do so!
Do you have any suggestions aside from testing all of my levels in my water?
Thanks and nice to meet you all!
