Decision Time
Posted on Monday, 11 December, 2006 at 2:27 PM by miskairal
Hmm, do I want to keep going with reefkeeping or do I want to cut down? Can I go through this again? Do I want to sell my sailfin tang as he will outgrow my 4 footer?
I didn't know. I took ages to make a decision, well ages considering how everything was stuffed into all sorts of places now and something had to be done soon. I decided that I didn't want such a big tank but I also didn't want to sell Tangy so I went with a 5x2x2. Tangy would just have to put up with it but at the same time I could reach the bottom. I bought both the tank and a new stand which Tone drove all the way to Brisbane and back to get for me.
I have never been sorry for downsizing to the 5 footer. It is more my size, more reachable and manageable but also able to hold all my rock and corals. It was to be the 29th of December before I had the fish in their new home. That was only a 3 week quarantine period but I was fairly confident that if they were going to develop white spot they would have done so with the stress they'd been through. My clowns had fallen in love with the Kingaroy bleached anemone too.
I set the new tank up on the 16th December using 450litres of my precious nsw, almost all my rock and all the sand I had left that hadn't been swept out the door. That gave me a 10cm deep bed in my 5 footer so there was one foot of sand missing as it had been 10cm in my 6 footer too. I never got the rockwork and coral setup as good as last time despite spending several days on it. That has annoyed me ever since and I know that one day I will get in a give it another go.
Edited on: Wednesday, 02 May, 2007 4:00 PMPosted in Tank in general (RSS)