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revhtree · Nov 29, 2013

Looking good and congrats!

mjr · Dec 3, 2013

Got the Marco rocks. Really happy with the selection.

mjr · Dec 18, 2013

Playing with rocks-scaping. Sand is on the way.

mjr · Dec 18, 2013

Light arrived. 36" odyssea t5 fixture.
I have a couple led textures I will add to the setup, but they would not have been enough on their own.

mjr · Dec 26, 2013

Fish room / utility room construction has begun

The wall has come down and I started to construct the tank shelf. More updates on the way... I hope to have the stand and new walls completed in the next week or so.

revhtree · Dec 26, 2013

Cool! Like the rock!

mjr · Dec 27, 2013

Thanks. I have got some new livestock, too. Can't wait to have this tank running.

mjr · Jan 3, 2014

Fish room utility room has a door

mjr · Jan 3, 2014

Sump and refugium planning. Advice please!

I was planing on using a 20 long I have as the sump, but decided to pick up a 29 gallon as well. I'd like to use the 29 as a fuge and put a few fish and cleaner shrimp in there. My idea is to drain into the 29 with a filter sock, and have the 29 gravity feed to the 20 long where I will have the skimmer, return pump, ato and reactors.

Any thoughts on this approach? I am on the fence and am tempted to just setup without a refugium. I am still deciding whether I should order the additional bulkheads and drill the 29.

mjr · Jan 4, 2014

Working out the sump design in this thread:

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/do...f-sump-refugium-advise-29-gallon-20-long.html

mjr · Jan 10, 2014

Rockscaping

Decided to go with as much height as possible with the dry rock since I can epoxy everything in place. I have few live rocks in my other tanks that I will stack up around the Marco rock formations and add some mass to the towers.

mjr · Jan 15, 2014

Rockscaping coming together. The sand is only 1.5 inches deep so I ordered another 40# of Marco sand and a few more rocks.

revhtree · Jan 16, 2014

I like it!

mjr · Jan 21, 2014

chefb_5 · Jan 21, 2014

O ya bring on the Progress!

J062682l · Jan 21, 2014

mjr said:
The elusive and territorial Regal Damoiselle (or whatever it is called. I just liked it when a saw it in the store)

The clownfish before he was evicted from the tank for trying to host in and eating ricordia.

Nina chasing a goby.

Did you place this tank in a wall!!

mjr · Jan 21, 2014

Yep. Tank will be pretty much flush with the wall. Walls are framed out, but I have not gotten a chance to put the paneling up yet. I should get to that this weekend. I'll post pics soon.