[fishytime]

Originally Posted by christyf5

I won't give you any advice but I'm glad to hear that your move went well which is a relief (to all of us I think ). I'd be a bit worried about the "fish storage" issue as well but it seems like you're sort of caught between a rock and a a hard place (no pun intended). The 100lbs of uncycled is really sketchy? Thats a lot of rock to be mixing in with your 150lbs, if it was only 40 or 50 I'd say go for it but....

like Laurie said, there is about 100lbs of rock in the 260 atm....all readings were at 0 a week after the rock went in (Ive had this rock sitting in bins waiting for at the very least 2 months (longer for some of it)....the 110g has about 150lbs of rock between the display and sump....this is the rock that Im worried about....I have the means to move all of it with water covering the majority of the rock (I have 10 rubbermaid bins and three cooler that are dedicated for the aquarium) the prodibio start claims that you can add rock from the LFS and fish in the same day and have pretty much no cycle....its a three part procedure that involves a bacteria, food for the bacteria and an ammonia neutralizing product....Im just still nervous about putting my faith in the product....after all these are my babies Im dealing with

Originally Posted by lastlight

It's too late for this now but it's too bad you hadn't found a friend to setup a fish storage tank to keep them a month or two that was cycled and of a suitable size. Sounds a bit scary putting them in the large tank and less scary to keep them at RCE. Glad the sps are doing good so far!

would have been a nice scenario, but that is a lot to ask of someone ya know....its like, heres a 100 gallon tank with thirteen fish for you to take care of for me

Originally Posted by reefwars

I could babysit as many as you needed buddy I have no fish in my tank that would bother them

thanks for the offer mang but the other thing that I worry about with the "keeping the fish at RCE" scenario, is the simple fact that I will then have to move the fish and stress them out twice.....I hate putting a net to a fish....I think we vastly underestimate the stress we put on our fish when we chases it around a tank and net and move it.....game fish are known to die after release from lactic acid build up and I would assume that our aquarium fish experience the same thing....some fish simply will die from the stress of being moved.....so keeping them anywhere else but the 260 is gonna force me to move them twice......