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Also should I clean the bio balls?
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Also should I clean the bio balls? Or did they just clean themselves with my full tank of fresh water?
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Didn't mean to post that whole thing again
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Correct. You likely stirred up a lot of nutrients when doing your swap over. You can change out filter pads every couple of weeks plus do water changes regularly while your skimmer breaks in. As long as ammonia and nitrites are 0, and the salinity is within 1.024 & 1.026 you should have no problem acclimating the fish so long as the temp and pH are in line.
Poly pads are also great IME at sucking up excess nutrients.
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You can make a sump out of an old aquarium and some glass from home depot. I made my first one out of a 30G I bought for $30. You can get glass cut to the size you need and use aquarium grade silicon to put in the baffles. It's not hard at all. Just make sure you round the edges of the new cut glass. I didn't and cut myself pretty good a few times. I'm not a fan of the wet dry and it could very well be your source of nitrates. do a search in the DIY section for sumps. You will also want to save up for your own RO/DI filter, buy this before you buy any other fish or corals.
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I just saw poly pads at my lfs yesterday and almost grabbed one but instead I just got some chemi-pure. I will probably look into making a simp in the near future and a RO/DI filter is a must after all the water I've hauled this past week. I did about a 50% wc last night and got the nitrates down to 20. The skimmer is in the sump and running now too. I might try adding a fish or 2 tonight if the parameters are still good
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Just an FYI, my local home depot and Lowe's only sold 1/8" thick glass which is not sufficient for anything aquarium related.
However I was able to find a local glass shop that cut me 5 plates of 1/4" for sump baffles and eased the edges on them for about $50.
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Thanks for the info mondo. I was also wondering if it matters if there's an order I introduce the fish to the new tank and what time frame. I have 2 damsels, 2 clowns, 3 chromis and a blenny, along with a blood shrimp and blue leg hermit crab. The one blue damsel is about 3" big and cranky, it picks on everyone except the clowns. So idk if there's an order I should do this so no one tries to claim the whole tank as their territory
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Generally speaking: the more aggressive the fish, the later it should be introduced.
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That's what I was thinking. Thanks
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Do you guys maintain the level in your sump by adding water directly to it? If I slow down my return and let the sump fill up when I open the return again it just drops. I don't understand it
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