Planning for my tank

Matt Miller · Dec 9, 2016

Tank and stand up, need lotsa cleaning still. Small snag on base, the doors don't fit right with the hinges I got so I need to find a dif type now. Baffles are ready to put in sump.

Hopefully a week or two I can pick up the other tank and transfer.

Matt Miller · Dec 19, 2016

After the move and levelling scare, thanks r2r for the fast responses and help recovering, everything seems to be levelling off and settling in.

Somehow the temp rose about 30+ degrees out of single digits for the day of the move. Not even 2hours of tear down, it guy I bought from,had 1/3 out when we got there. The whole move went nicely, all the fish settled into my 10g qt tank nicely.

Long story short, here's the tank all setup and everything seems to be adjusting well. Salinity is a little low but I'll get that up with next water change.

I am dosing with special blend bacteria, didn't keep much of the old sand it was very dirty.

Already seeing things pop up that I couldn't see through the algae before the move. If the crabs snails, mini brittle and urchin don't seem to trim up the hair algae I will add some more cleaners in a couple weeks.

Matt Miller · Jan 24, 2017

Most recent fts and 2 newest additions to my tank.

Matt Miller · Jan 24, 2017

Also got a few extra tiny snails and extra critters, I can't get good pics but the orange guy seems to have little tiny legs all around it

Matt Miller · Jan 26, 2017

Deepwater pipe organ opened up nicely already.

bios · Jan 26, 2017

Its a nice tank...
But I will try to place up the power heads as from pics
Not a good oxygenation of the water

Annabellam · Jan 26, 2017

Good stuff going on. I cannot wait to see the progress on this one!

saltnewb · Jan 26, 2017

nice build so far and great progress. can't wait to see this tank age.

Matt Miller · Jan 26, 2017

Thx, and I have been moving the powerheads around to find the right spot still.

Matt Miller · Jan 26, 2017

Hoping for the uglies to go away soon lol. Anxious to get my first couple nems in here.

I think I still need to beef up my cuc a little, there's still some hair algae that won't quite go away. Also debating a sand sifting star, my cucumber doesn't seem to want to come out into rhe main sandbar still.