Water Changes

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
I was going to say something similar. And in all honesty, you could probably start by mixing salt in to your tap water regardless (though I'm sure others will say otherwise). Mix it all up, add live rock, treat it, and let it cycle before adding anything such as fish or inverts, and you should be ok. In all honesty, that's what I did to start my system and everything turned out just fine. Just watch everything and don't feel like you have to jump into fish immediately and you'll be fine.

This is great to know, and I greatly appreciate that info. The thing is, in this situation, I'm moving a SW tank from a guy who already has it setup... fish and all... who lives two hours away from me... to my house, and setting it up there. So the fish are already a part of the equation, and I'm trying to make sure I do this in the least-likely-to-kill-the-fish way as possible!

-Rich
 
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