<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Ok…she’s up! Well…kind of. I hope to post a build thread/timeline of my 175 this weekend with some pictures. But for now I am kind of hangin in limbo. </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Need some advice.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Originally I was just going to transfer the livestock/rock/corals and everything from my 75 over to the 175. Do some big water changes and maybe end up with 50% mature water and 50% new. But I then decided I had too many variables and things I wanted to do first before I moved stuff over. I want to take my time with the scaping and make sure I have the temperature and flow through the sump dialed in just right before I start moving things over. I want everything perfect before I move any animals. I also have some rock cured I will be adding to my existing LR in the new tank. Will this cause a cycle? </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I also have sand I will be adding after the rock at some point I got from another member. I cleaned the bejesus out of it. With lots of buckets and a garden hose I strained all the little shells and coral pieces out and rinsed and rinsed until the water did not cloud and there was no smell. I packed it away in buckets until I was ready to use it. Well… I opened the lid on one of the buckets the other day and it smelled pretty funky. My intent was to move it all into a brute saltwater cure for a while before putting it into the tank. Looks like I will be rinsing at all again. This time I will rinse and put directly in the tank…I guess.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Will this cause a cycle?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I have never cycled a tank before. The one I have now started as a fowler and I just used some mature water to start it up.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Do I want a cycle?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Do I want to avoid a cycle?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><u>Can</u> I avoid a cycle?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Need some advice.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Originally I was just going to transfer the livestock/rock/corals and everything from my 75 over to the 175. Do some big water changes and maybe end up with 50% mature water and 50% new. But I then decided I had too many variables and things I wanted to do first before I moved stuff over. I want to take my time with the scaping and make sure I have the temperature and flow through the sump dialed in just right before I start moving things over. I want everything perfect before I move any animals. I also have some rock cured I will be adding to my existing LR in the new tank. Will this cause a cycle? </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I also have sand I will be adding after the rock at some point I got from another member. I cleaned the bejesus out of it. With lots of buckets and a garden hose I strained all the little shells and coral pieces out and rinsed and rinsed until the water did not cloud and there was no smell. I packed it away in buckets until I was ready to use it. Well… I opened the lid on one of the buckets the other day and it smelled pretty funky. My intent was to move it all into a brute saltwater cure for a while before putting it into the tank. Looks like I will be rinsing at all again. This time I will rinse and put directly in the tank…I guess.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Will this cause a cycle?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I have never cycled a tank before. The one I have now started as a fowler and I just used some mature water to start it up.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Do I want a cycle?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Do I want to avoid a cycle?</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><u>Can</u> I avoid a cycle?</span></span>
