Opinions please!
We are starting fresh back into SWF after a few years break and are attempting a set up differently from what we are familiar with.
Ultimately the tank will have some community fish and maybe after a year or so a little coral (poly, zoas).
Our set up is a 90 gal with a 20gal 3 stage sump with a sock at the inflow, g1 skimmer in the mid, a little webbing plastic piece in the front of the bubble trap, and a pump in the last section. I can't remember the specifics on the pump but from what I can tell, it's a beast. We are also running a reactor with phosban that feeds from the outflow back to the sock where the overflow box feeds into the sump. All of our hard goods are used and came with the tank which was previously flourishing corals with the last owner.
We added 40lbs of live Caribsea sand mixed with 20lbs of bamia pink sand. We also have placed around 55lbs of rock that was bleached and is completely dead.
Two people at the lfs told us to take a rock from my swf tank at work to seed the rock we bleached and have in our new tank and that we could put the filter from my swf tank at work in our sump (laying on the bottom) to try to cultivate bacteria in our tank since everything is sterile. A third guy from the same lfs told us to not bother putting anything in our tank from my swf at work because he sees it as prolonging the cycling time.
The advice I have gotten is mixed and I am lost. I know from previous experience that swf is nothing to rush. I don't plan on putting corals in this tank for at least a year.
What is your advice on adding fish to the tank. The third guy said that if we don't seed it from the tank at work, that we can add inverts after 2 weeks and fish at 2.5-3 weeks.
Can anyone give advice on the fish and what to expect with cycling this tank that has no current biomatter?
Thanks in advance!
We are starting fresh back into SWF after a few years break and are attempting a set up differently from what we are familiar with.
Ultimately the tank will have some community fish and maybe after a year or so a little coral (poly, zoas).
Our set up is a 90 gal with a 20gal 3 stage sump with a sock at the inflow, g1 skimmer in the mid, a little webbing plastic piece in the front of the bubble trap, and a pump in the last section. I can't remember the specifics on the pump but from what I can tell, it's a beast. We are also running a reactor with phosban that feeds from the outflow back to the sock where the overflow box feeds into the sump. All of our hard goods are used and came with the tank which was previously flourishing corals with the last owner.
We added 40lbs of live Caribsea sand mixed with 20lbs of bamia pink sand. We also have placed around 55lbs of rock that was bleached and is completely dead.
Two people at the lfs told us to take a rock from my swf tank at work to seed the rock we bleached and have in our new tank and that we could put the filter from my swf tank at work in our sump (laying on the bottom) to try to cultivate bacteria in our tank since everything is sterile. A third guy from the same lfs told us to not bother putting anything in our tank from my swf at work because he sees it as prolonging the cycling time.
The advice I have gotten is mixed and I am lost. I know from previous experience that swf is nothing to rush. I don't plan on putting corals in this tank for at least a year.
What is your advice on adding fish to the tank. The third guy said that if we don't seed it from the tank at work, that we can add inverts after 2 weeks and fish at 2.5-3 weeks.
Can anyone give advice on the fish and what to expect with cycling this tank that has no current biomatter?
Thanks in advance!
