Refuguim mud question

[Steve1500]

So my 75 G DT is cycled with LR and LS. I just put in three fish and a cleaner shrimp but I have no corals in the DT yet. Corals will go in late April. I am starting a sump refugium (I know a bit late), but all the refugium mud directions say that the mud has to cycle for xx number of weeks before I can put anything in the tank....oops, too late I already have livestock in the tank.

Is there anyway to add the mud to the sump fuge while I have livestock in the DT? Can I add it slowly over a period of time? Or, should I skip the mud and go wtih sand or a bare bottom refugium?

If bare bottom, I will have live rock, cheato, gracillaria and some pods...enough?? Anything missing?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Brew12]

So my 75 G DT is cycled with LR and LS. I just put in three fish and a cleaner shrimp but I have no corals in the DT yet. Corals will go in late April. I am starting a sump refugium (I know a bit late), but all the refugium mud directions say that the mud has to cycle for xx number of weeks before I can put anything in the tank....oops, too late I already have livestock in the tank.

Is there anyway to add the mud to the sump fuge while I have livestock in the DT? Can I add it slowly over a period of time? Or, should I skip the mud and go wtih sand or a bare bottom refugium?

If bare bottom, I will have live rock, cheato, gracillaria and some pods...enough?? Anything missing?

Thanks,
Steve

You can add the mud any time. I didn't add my mud until my tank was running for a month. It was fully stocked with fish at the time.

 

[Dtfnemo]

You can add the mud any time. I didn't add my mud until my tank was running for a month. It was fully stocked with fish at the time.

Pretty much same here, it didn't seem to bother anything in the tank, just made the water a bit cloudy

 

[Steve1500]

You can add the mud any time. I didn't add my mud until my tank was running for a month. It was fully stocked with fish at the time.

Thanks Brew,
BTW, I hope you don't find this too strange but I named my Benghai Cardinal after you. Why? You were the first reefer to really help me out and your answers are always straight forward, speedy, concise and very deliberate. After I bought my cardinal, I could not figure out what to name it. But, I did notice that he was very concise in his/her actions, very speedy especially when it came to food and made deliberate moves. He/she is always seems to swim in a very straight line. So, one thing led to another and now I have a fish named Brew. Oh, and I thought it was a cool name. So when you leave this world you can say some idiotic moron out there who does not know you from Adam, named his fish after you (lol)!

Back to business...do you recc any particular mud when adding after the fact? Did you add all at once or little by little to keep down the cloudiness?

Thanks!!!
Steve

 

[Brew12]

Thanks Brew,
BTW, I hope you don't find this too strange but I named my Benghai Cardinal after you. Why? You were the first reefer to really help me out and your answers are always straight forward, speedy, concise and very deliberate. After I bought my cardinal, I could not figure out what to name it. But, I did notice that he was very concise in his/her actions, very speedy especially when it came to food and made deliberate moves. He/she is always seems to swim in a very straight line. So, one thing led to another and now I have a fish named Brew. Oh, and I thought it was a cool name. So when you leave this world you can say some idiotic moron out there who does not know you from Adam, named his fish after you (lol)!

Back to business...do you recc any particular mud when adding after the fact? Did you add all at once or little by little to keep down the cloudiness?

Thanks!!!
Steve

I'm honored and I absolutely love it!

I use the Walt Smith Fiji Mud. I would turn your skimmer and return pumps off and add it to your sump all at once. Let it sit for around 10 minutes and then start everything back up. Your tank will get cloudy but it won't hurt anything. In a few hours everything should look normal again.

 

[Steve1500]

Perfect. Will do.

 

[Jerzyray]

Heyall, ST how did you make out with the mud?

 

[Steve1500]

I went with marine pure blocks instead. Glad I did because my nitrates got to low and I had to remove them. Mud would have been a little more difficult.