28g JBJ HQI

[makana]

Here are some of the inhabitants of the 10g that will be moving over.

The sun coral and clown fish


The bubble coral


The cleaner shrimp


I also have a chromis and assortmant of snails and hermitts that will be moved over. There is a mystery crab in there that I hope I can get rid of in the process.

[makana]

At this point I plan to use a SSB and about 18lbs of hopefully cured live rock. Once the tank has cycled the 12 lbs of live rock will move over from the 10g. I will also move over the K1 because the stock water flow in the JBJ is only 266gph. That seems to be pretty bare minimum to me, correct me if I'm wrong.

Will I have any problems with the bubble coral going from 40w PC lighting at the top of a 10g to 150w MH lighting? Should I be doing something to help the coral adjust to the stronger light?

[karazy]

looks good so far. a nice little mod for extra flow is replace the stock pumps with something a little more powerfull like maxi jets or maybe a rio of some kind.
you should indeed acclimate the coral to the light. the best way i find is to find a shady spot on the sand bed, then every about 2nd day(may take longer for certain corals)move it up a little until it's where you want it to be

[bauder1986]

Wow, this is going to be one heck of a coral producing tank once you have it all set up, I really look forward to seeing the end!

[mseepman]

Any new news on how this tank is doing?

[makana]

Well so far everything is on track. I bought aprox. 18lbs of live rock and it is doing its thing. There has been no noticeable spike an anything yet so I am not sure if there will be an actual cycle. I have the lights on a timer at 4 hrs/day this week. I am following the advice I have received from bauder1986 and increasing the daylight by 2 hrs every week to avoid problem algae.

The live rock came with aptasia that I am trying to kill off. I have also spotted a crab in there that I have to figure out how to catch. Any suggestions?

[bauder1986]

Originally Posted by makana

Well so far everything is on track. I bought aprox. 18lbs of live rock and it is doing its thing. There has been no noticeable spike an anything yet so I am not sure if there will be an actual cycle. I have the lights on a timer at 4 hrs/day this week. I am following the advice I have received from bauder1986 and increasing the daylight by 2 hrs every week to avoid problem algae.

The live rock came with aptasia that I am trying to kill off. I have also spotted a crab in there that I have to figure out how to catch. Any suggestions?

There are a couple of threads on here about bottle trapping. I dont really know what that is about because I got lucky this far and havent had to go and catch any annoying hitchhickers (knock on wood). But yah, search bottle traps/trapping in the forums and read away.