New Set up ?????????

[nyfireman3097]

Ok i upgraded from my 55g to my 125g in Dec 2004 when i did this everything survived and did great the LR is 2 yrs old with TONS of life in it. My question is im upgrading to 180g today im NOT gonna put anything in it yet since i have to knock a wall down frame the wall up again set the tank up then plumb it and biuld the sump once all thats done that is my goal for today then next week my starboard will be here and i can get everything up and goin then ................................. after saying that i wanted to know a couple of things
1. Will Starting off withlik 100g of fresh saltwater shock anything with a mixture of the water in my 125g ?

2. How do you cook rock ?

3. (BOB) gonna have like 150 lbs of LR goin BB again DO NOT KNOW SUMP SIZE im custom building it sump will be 24 inches high, 4 feet long (2 feet of the 4 feet will be 1 foot wide and the other 2 feet will be 2 feet wide) this is so i can fit it in my fish room and have room to walk ........What should i dose at ??????? i use bak/food/AA/flour/start1 gonna start spur2 and iron soon maybe macro elements also soon after them

4. My current dosing on zeo is 1 1/2 bags of zeovit which is 2 weeks old do i just use that till the 6 weeks is up ??? or do i just add more to it ?????

TIA
Nick

[nyfireman3097]

Anybody ?????????
Nick

[Aged Salt]

Hi Nick, your new tank will be great--plenty of room for your corals to grow.
The only concern with a big water change would be your pH change & it's effect on your fish. Try to match salinity & KH levels to your old water. If you can run the new water with your carbon & zeo-filter[zeolites] for 24hrs before adding your fish, this then would not present stress to the fish. Your corals should have no problems. I would not change the zeolites until the time-frame is 6wks. then, increase the quanity based on your new net vol. Same for the flow rate of the zeo-filter. The new zeo-dosing will correlate, of course, to your net water vol. Maybe you can give us your current zeo-dosing amounts with your current net vol. & give us the new net vol. for adjustment of your zeo-doses. Bob