Unfinished Tanked Show Aquarium

[An Octopus Garden]

We just started working on an aquarium built by the tanked guys. It's about 80% complete but has been sitting for a long while. The sand had expiration dates of 2017. More pics to come soon

 

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I like the western/steampunk look.

 

[An Octopus Garden]

Water going in for the test fill.

 

[An Octopus Garden]

Details on this coral insert are fantastic.

 

[An Octopus Garden]

Pictures of the sump room. It's a very clean build. Still missing a few parts we have to replace and need to clean up the electrical.

 

[An Octopus Garden]

Two small leaks but nothing major. One is a 90 fitting, so I added a little glue. Hopefully that fixes it and I don't have to cut and replace.

 

[An Octopus Garden]

All leaks fixed and cycle is complete. We've been slowly adding fish and bumping up the bio-load. Currently we have our 2 pajama cardinals who were the test pilots. After that we added a foxface and tomini tang to help on the algae. And a week after that we added 20 chromis and then after another week we added a small school on anthias. Going great so far with zero deaths.
In one of the pics, you can see the foxface squaring up with K. He really does not like her and tries to start a fight every time.