BeaverHunt
09/07/2006, 08:48 AM
hello all...great site here...came across it and it seems the perfect place with the most knowledgable peeps...so i figured i would ask your opinion...
first off i have a 72bow...i found a place to drill my tank for me (2 holes for only 25 bucks) and i have a couple questions...one how far down should i have them drill the holes? (on the back) what size holes? i was thinking inch and a half...my return pump i think will be an eheim 1262...is this ok?
also i plan on changing out the whole sandbed and kind of starting over because i know much more now then when i first started and would like to start off right...80 lbs of reefer rock is on the way and 100 pounds of black sand is on the way...should be here 2marrow...i already have my 5 fish though...2 chromis (1.5"), 2 perc clowns (1.5"), a lawnmower blenny (3"), and a yellow tang (4")...soo my plan is to buy my tank that i will make the sump out of and put the fish in there for a little while, just until my tank is drilled and cleaned...probably take a couple days...i am going to put a 29 gallon tank as a sump...
then, after the tank is drilled, ill put the new sand and rock in and take a couple nylons full of the old sand and lay it in the back of the tank to prevent another cycle..is my thinking corrrect? i already asked a couple of the LFS's around here if they could "babysit" my fish for me which they promptly said "NO"...so i will have to end up putting all the fish in the main tank with only a protein skimmer running on it for a couple days while i build the sump...probably take me a few days...are they all going to die? i dont really have anything else i can do, at least not that i can think of...my skimmer is a css125...also i have an canister filter that ive been running for the last year or so...i will probably run that while i am building the sump as well...willl all this new sand and rock (none live) create a big cycle?
are there any other sugestions?
thank you all for the great responses in advance...
-Buck-
first off i have a 72bow...i found a place to drill my tank for me (2 holes for only 25 bucks) and i have a couple questions...one how far down should i have them drill the holes? (on the back) what size holes? i was thinking inch and a half...my return pump i think will be an eheim 1262...is this ok?
also i plan on changing out the whole sandbed and kind of starting over because i know much more now then when i first started and would like to start off right...80 lbs of reefer rock is on the way and 100 pounds of black sand is on the way...should be here 2marrow...i already have my 5 fish though...2 chromis (1.5"), 2 perc clowns (1.5"), a lawnmower blenny (3"), and a yellow tang (4")...soo my plan is to buy my tank that i will make the sump out of and put the fish in there for a little while, just until my tank is drilled and cleaned...probably take a couple days...i am going to put a 29 gallon tank as a sump...
then, after the tank is drilled, ill put the new sand and rock in and take a couple nylons full of the old sand and lay it in the back of the tank to prevent another cycle..is my thinking corrrect? i already asked a couple of the LFS's around here if they could "babysit" my fish for me which they promptly said "NO"...so i will have to end up putting all the fish in the main tank with only a protein skimmer running on it for a couple days while i build the sump...probably take me a few days...are they all going to die? i dont really have anything else i can do, at least not that i can think of...my skimmer is a css125...also i have an canister filter that ive been running for the last year or so...i will probably run that while i am building the sump as well...willl all this new sand and rock (none live) create a big cycle?
are there any other sugestions?
thank you all for the great responses in advance...
-Buck-