triggerman- i am so glad i took your advice, had i done it any other way, would have just been a set up for failure....
for this i must say thank you (from me and from livestock!!!)
today began with the skimmer pouring water onto the floor! wonderful thing at 7am!!
the reason for the sudden...
so just an update....
made the move. everyone who left arrived alive and acclimated happily, nearly done with aqua-scaping i couldnt do it all in one fell swoop cause i have a lot of live rock and my clownfish is being quite territorial... and he's a biter!!!!
pics will come soon, just gotta...
100%..I like it- seems like that's the way to go... Mightjust use the old water to do a quick vacuum so I get some of the dormant couple year old crud out...("bottom water", if you will) While I do a qwick scape. I'll have all live stuff acclimating in my trashcan I use as part of my sump...
100 percent new water, interesting approach... wouldn't that shock the system? and then wouldn't i get all kinds of diatoms and algal blooms from a re cycle period?
perhaps i am over thinking it a bit...
oh and did i mention the last water change was done in September........oh with the...
SORRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! thats waaay too big.... ill keep them up for now, but will be replaced with scaled down sizes...
gosh they came from a mobile phone too... why they so huge?????
sorry sorry sorry sorry!!!! i really hope no one is on dialup......
so it all started something like this...
then this showed up
then many moons later things started looking like this...
well then this happened...
its been many moons since these pics... but more recent ones to follow... providing these all work.... i fear they may be kinda big...
cheers for the responses!!
so i've since written out a few lists and calmed the panic slightly.. gotta find a good, cheap place to get R/O and salt locally which google has been somewhat informative with but could definitely use an insider scoop(pm me if necessary)... oh yeah and frozen food...
not sure if this is where i'm meant to post this kind of stuff but here goes...
i'd like to say hello to everyone on here since this is my first post... hello!!!!
now that that's out of the way... here's the situation...
So i moved to Brooklyn in October and well, i've kinda been slacking on...