
05-22-2008, 07:04 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Posts: 137
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Quote:
Originally Posted by telboy
ian, if you put in say the 14kg of LR + let the tank mature/cycle so that all readings are close as perfect as ya can get them, then add more live rock, youll get param spikes due to any dieoff on the LR might be small, might be big, but youll get em, also everytime you add live stock youll get the same,if it were me, id add as much LR as i could afford[dont buy fish], leave it for a week or so then start testing + do waterchanges, after 4 weeks maybe add some CUC[clean up crew] then wait another week or 2, all the while testing + doing WC, once levels are good start to add fish slowly, as i said its hard when ya see all those nice fish etc but if ya dont go to any fish shops, ya wont see all those nice fish so ya wont be tempted as easy,patience is the best way mate, being too eager can lead to probs + maybe the death of ya livestock
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yeah that is the problem i have, i just cant afford to get all my liverock in one go...i need a good 60-80kg minimum ideally (from what i have been told) and i just dont have that kind of money available in one lump...so unfortunately i am going to have to just keep adding as and when i have the money....so yeah i am avoiding fish shops for now to avoid any temptation lol...i may phone my local one though and see if they will maye board the fish i have in the nano as it is going to be a loooooong wait i think until i can add any livestock and need the filter from that to add to the 5ft set up 
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Fish
5ft fish only marine tank
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Reptiles
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1.0 salmon hypo het kahl strain albino Boa constrictor
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1.0 tiger reticulated python
1.2 eastern indigo snakes
1.1 brazilian rainbow boas
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 albino bull snakes
0.1 wild type bull snake
1.1 crimson corns
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1.0 blue tongued skink
0.1 tiger salamander
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