Moving rock nems from 10 to 25!

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For the longest time, I’ve wanted to transition the rock nems from their 10 gallon (species specific) to a bigger tank. I purposely put them in the laundry room when we bought our home so that it would motivate me to get a bigger display. A year and a half later, I finally bought the fusion 25 lagoon to make that happen.
The tank and stand were delivered today and boy what a journey that stand was! First we had to take off the wrapping paper…

Which was a hot mess. We learned our lesson with the second side lol

It wasn’t too hard to finish after that, now onto the fun part!

 

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Roughly the layout I’m going for. These are the new dry base rocks and I’ll be transferring all the existing live rock from the 10 over.

 

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Ps. The hubby has a new freshwater tank for his catfish that he’s working on. It’s our aquarium wall now lol

 

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After a small set back from the stock pump dying, I finally got the tank filled up and heat circulating. My LFS brought back so many gorgeous nems from Chicago over the weekend so I HAD to pick some up lol

Then I spent the day transferring everything over from the 10 gallon, equipment cleaned and reset to the 25. Then the rocks, new nems, and Big D (the damsel). Oh and the crabs. Overall, nems got a bit mad but they’re doing well about 30 min later. Found about 15 babies I didn’t know I had lol so that was fun.

 

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Fun fact, baby nems like to be comfy. As evidenced by the shell bro.

 

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Finally took some pictures with the color correction. The tank has a handful of blue leg hermits, a few nerite, a few trochus, and a tiny 6 line, orchid dottyback, and a bigger tail spot blenny.