Sk8r
03/27/2007, 02:26 AM
So here's my situation: tank on the main floor, sump in the basement. I'm about to go through setup....[I'm in process of moving, and hopefully my sump arrives tomorrow and my tank arrives Thursday. I'm in process of moving my rock tomorrow, will have new sand, new water, and will board out my fish and corals at the lfs.]
I have fifty gal of water ready to fill the sump tomorrow [30g sump, granted it gets here!] I'll be running more ro/di once the sump is full, and will have enough water for my 54g. I'll connect the hoses for the cleaned and dried 54g as soon as it gets here on Thursday.
My plan---I feel like an episode of Pinky and the Brain---is to use the Iwaki pump to lift the water to the main floor and fill the dry tank with mixed salt water from the sump. This will save me 10 trips upstairs with five gallon buckets on legs that have already done far too much move-in stair-climbing.
Rock and sand will be in place upstairs in the usual way, rock set in from buckets where it has resided overnight. I'll have a heater going in the big tub, where I'll be mixing in salt tomorrow.
Am I nuts? Can the water part be this easy?
I have fifty gal of water ready to fill the sump tomorrow [30g sump, granted it gets here!] I'll be running more ro/di once the sump is full, and will have enough water for my 54g. I'll connect the hoses for the cleaned and dried 54g as soon as it gets here on Thursday.
My plan---I feel like an episode of Pinky and the Brain---is to use the Iwaki pump to lift the water to the main floor and fill the dry tank with mixed salt water from the sump. This will save me 10 trips upstairs with five gallon buckets on legs that have already done far too much move-in stair-climbing.
Rock and sand will be in place upstairs in the usual way, rock set in from buckets where it has resided overnight. I'll have a heater going in the big tub, where I'll be mixing in salt tomorrow.
Am I nuts? Can the water part be this easy?