start from scratch and add fish coral and all in a day.

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Originally Posted by subman

I may have been guilty of peeing in my tank to get things going lol

Note to self: never put my hands into Jason's tank.

Originally Posted by Titus99

Haha. If I tried I'm sure company would walk in. Ill stick to peeing in the shower

Yuck!

I have done fast tank set ups before, but they would be more similar to a tank transfer then a new tank set up. Because I have over 1000g of saltwater in my house (I have 5 tanks) and Doug (my boyfriend has 1) I have extra live rock to choose from (mostly in Doug's sump). I used some of his rock (fully cured rock that has been in his newest tank for a year now, that he's had for several years now) to quickly (or instantly) cycle the newly set up tank.

Basically I set up the new tank with new sand and newly made saltwater. Then I take the rock from mine or Doug's tanks and move the fully cured live rock over (completely submerged in saltwater to avoid die off during the move) and add the rock to the new tank. Then I've added (figured it couldn't hurt) either prodibio start up http://www.prodibio.com/start-quickl...cal-filtration to help with the cycle or Seachem Stability http://www.seachem.com/Products/prod...Stability.html Usually I wait 2-3 days test everything and usually everything is good to go.

Now even I (who admittedly, is impatient as hell) still wait a full week before adding anything and then only add a few things here and there per week after. Still a lot faster then usual, but I've only been able to get away with it because of starting with fully cured established live rock.