The LAST big upgrade

[JDigital]

TIBET's getting wet? Yaaaahooo!

[mseepman]

Love to see this finally filling up.

[kien]

That's a lot of salt yo! What does "scientific grade" mean?

[michika]

Originally Posted by kien

That's a lot of salt yo! What does "scientific grade" mean?

Yeah, 4 boxes, plus 2.5 pails...it better be enough. I haven't used Coralife in YEARS, so maybe I'll stick with it, or maybe not; who knows.

I imagine my little grains of salt arriving dressed up in their little lab jackets and googles all ready to get down to being all science-y and such.

[JDigital]

I'm using that same salt on the 180 here at the office. Seems pretty good. Mixes up really quick from what I can tell and mixes fairly clean too, haven't seen much residue left in my water change container, and its CHEAP!

[michika]

I have my final shopping list for turning Tibet on, and I'm hoping I can pick everything up before the holidays so that while I am at home I can be working on the tank, or at least watching her fill up with water.

- HRV (arrived, but requires install)
- Rock - I need another 100lbs, my cooking process is taking forever.
- Sand - need more course aragonite and some crushed coral
- Bulbs - T5 and/or MH
- 1.5" valves (out of stock)
- A celebratory cigar

The question I've been playing around with in my head is how am I going to cycle Tibet. Do I want to help it along, dose, or do nothing?

[Delphinus]

I went with mostly dry rock and some cooked rock in my tank and went with the Zeovit 14-day tank cycle. If memory serves my nitrites took a hair longer than the actual 14 advertised days to hit zero, but it was only a day or two later. I was skeptical but it worked and I started transferring livestock over and there were no nitrite bumps for any of the transfers (I waited up to a week in between transfers for some of the bigger fish.)

Only problem at 280g for me, it was a costly purchase of zeovit products (in my case I didn't mind TOO much as I had intended for the tank to be zeo anyhow) and it will only be that much worse for your tank's volume. But hey it was a 2 week cycle from 0% to 100%. It is a given of course that given more time it will cycle on its own so it comes down to how patient you are in that phase..

[brotherd]

I'm curious about the hrv unit. How expensive is it to buy and have installed? Could you pm me?