Well, I made the BIG move last night. It took almost 3 hours with all of the drip acclimation, but I moved the contents of the BioCube into the main tank!
First, I drained some of the water and put it in a Tupperware container. Then I took out the corals that were not fully attached to my main rock. I let them drip acclimate for 45 minutes and then placed them in the tank.
Then, I drained much more of the water and pulled out the rock (it was one large piece). I used a razor to scrape off all of the bubble algae and placed it in a larger tub. That rock had the following on it:
- 6-7 ricordeas
- 1 bubble-tip anemone
- a blue zoa colony with about 18 heads
I also removed the fish and put them in the same container which I drip acclimated for another 45 minutes and then did some minor aquascaping to make room and put everything in the new tank!
So far, all looks okay.
The anemone is on the move trying to hide a little more. The fish are all a little skittish.
I put the trumpets too high I think and the branching frogspawn in the direct path of too much flow, so I will have to move them, but otherwise, all looks stable.
The leather looks great and my ultra crocea clam looks better than ever!
I am running the halides on a shorter schedule to help them acclimate since they were all previously under 48w of power compact lighting.
Once I get my camera out of my wife's purse, I will upload some pictures.
Which brings up another point. What do I do with the BioCube? My wife bought it for me for Christmas last year. It is now empty (and I have to clean it out). I don't want to sell it because she gave it to me. I think she might be upset too.
Maybe I can convince her to make it a sea horse tank!!! lol... not likely...
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