Tank is finally setup and cycled first livestock re-added.

[ballardjr2000]

Ok the tank is finally cycled and I am able to get my LS back from JOSH who has been kind enough to babysit it all. The rockwork is different of course. We were only able to catch one clown gonna try the other one later tonight. Anyhow figured I would throw up some pics of the tank so far. As I add the rest of the LS I will add more pics of course. ***UPDATE*** since i took the pics and uploaded them the yellow polyps, pallys, zoos, and colt corals have all opened up we are talking 10 minutes. I :heart:my tank

[Europhyllia]

What happened to your tank that you had to move everything out?

[txav8r]

Great start on the new tank!

[ballardjr2000]

We bought a house, and silly me diddn't have the containers to keep the water, I kept the LS, LR, and sand but had to mix NEW saltwater so I let it cycle and am now able to start Slowly adding back to the tank. Lesson here I like to call the 7P's PROPER, PRIOR, PLANNING, PREVENTS, ****, POOR, PERFORMANCE. but all in all its going good.

[Paul28]

Very nice kept nice and clean throgh the cycle :)

[ballardjr2000]

Yeah she is very clean I added some equipment just cause, like a UV sterilizer (it was collecting dust), and I added a air pump with stone in the sump area (not quite sure why) but its there, also took one of the glass covers off and replaced it with eggcrate it was cracked. My buddy brought MOST of my corals today he is still holding some for ransom I think. lol

[ballardjr2000]

so the first pic is a Ric i picked up for a bud and the second is mine. Many awesome rics there today.

[corruption]

Glad all has gone well for you -- but just as a point of contention (its a pet peeve of mine)... you probably worried a lot about nothing :) Precious little of the bacteria is saved in your water -- likely less than a percent of the total available within the aquarium. Your live rock and live sand was likely enough to weather the move -- especially if the tank wasn't broken down for very long. There is very little benefit in using 'cycled' water -- because there's typically nothing to cycle within the water itself :)

-Justin

[ballardjr2000]

Glad to hear I was wondering cause the amonina came up fast the rest followed within a day and then everything balanced out I mean it only took the tank like a week compaired to the first time it took 2 and half months

[corruption]

Absolutely -- because your rock, and to a lesser extent your sandbed, were live with detritivores and beneficial fauna/bacterium... Since your rock/sand has had time to mature, the chances of mass die-off are negated in the event of large scale moves like this :) A bit of a spike is to be expected -- but a day or so to complete the initial nitrogen cycling sounds about right when moving from a mature platform to a new platform with the same supplies... Of course, do note that there is a very high likelihood of the typical algae swings that occur with a new tank here :)

Good luck!

-Justin

[ballardjr2000]

yeah i am dealing with the brown crap now lol and the green is forming already. However my bud got a seahair he bought so if things get too bad he said I can use it. Plus the UV is running but I know in time all will pass.