My new tank

vlangel · May 5, 2014

zach_discus said:
Wow this is a stunning show piece of rock, very nice!!

I agree! That is a beautiful piece.

Supramike · May 5, 2014

Top down

Side. It have a big cave through it

I balanced it on side and added some other pieces to make it more stable I'm epoxying them so there is no slip or falling

Top down

revhtree · May 6, 2014

Looking good!

Supramike · May 17, 2014

Sand came today yay.

And put 80lbs in and making the water to fill it up. I'll probably put in another 20+ lbs when I get some water in just to settle the sand down.

jason g · May 17, 2014

Getting close, looking good.

inkedsparkster · May 17, 2014

Bring on the flood!

inkedsparkster · May 17, 2014

And by flood I mean water in the tank. You don't want a flood. That would be bad.

Supramike · May 17, 2014

inkedsparkster said:
And by flood I mean water in the tank. You don't want a flood. That would be bad.

Ya lol it's going to take a few days to fill up lol

Supramike · May 18, 2014

About half way there lol.

Supramike · May 20, 2014

Tank is full about 5 more gallons in the sump left.

inkedsparkster · May 20, 2014

Oooo gettin so close!

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vlangel · May 20, 2014

Wow, looks good.

Supramike · May 22, 2014

Thanks. So far I'm up to 46 cups of salt and I haven't broke 1.020. That was all the salt I have left. Looks like it's another trip to the lfs this weekend lol

Supramike · May 25, 2014

Salt is a stable 1.026 now time to start this cycle. I'm going to try the Red Sea program and see where it goes from there.

Also skimmer is in and running. I'll swap this one out for my reef octopus when everything get transferred over to their new home.

falconerr · May 25, 2014

Great looking sump very clean. Will be tagging along. Keep us informed on how the red sea kit goes.

Supramike · May 25, 2014

falconerr said:
Great looking sump very clean. Will be tagging along. Keep us informed on how the red sea kit goes.

Thanks and will do. I had to buy 2 boxes of the mature kit for the volume of water I have. I crunched the numbers and did the whole cycle on paper last night to make sure there is enough supplements to complete this.

vlangel · May 25, 2014

I hadn't heard of the Red Sea Reef mature kit. That's cool. I'll be interested to see how long it takes and how well it works as I am in the midst of cycling a tank too. You would be about a week behind me.

falconerr · May 25, 2014

I am on the tail end of a cycle on my 150dd and would have been nice to know about a product like this.

Supramike · May 27, 2014

Here is a link for the instructions for it. http://cdn.bulkreefsupply.com/media/wysiwyg/PDFs/Red Sea Reef-Mature-Manual.pdf hope it works. If not brs is the place where I found it. Just hit the full detail and then the instruction. So it says it will mature your tank in 21 days to be ready for fish and coral. I'm so far on day 3 and my tank is cloudy I hope that's part of this. I'll snap a pic in a few.