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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 10, 2016 20:11:51 GMT -5
Little update, fish are in and lights are on! |
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Post by spotfin on Mar 11, 2016 6:01:56 GMT -5
Looking good.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 11, 2016 18:27:58 GMT -5
It's far from perfect but it's a whole lot better to look at than before.
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Post by spotfin on Mar 11, 2016 21:20:09 GMT -5
Will corals be added?
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 11, 2016 21:51:35 GMT -5
Yup, going to keep it basic with colorful and easy soft corals.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 17, 2016 20:10:23 GMT -5
Went back to check out the tank today and sit down with the owner to pick out livestock. $2000 later lol, we will have three boxes of inverts, fish and corals coming in Tuesday. Adding 8 new fish. A royal gramma, tail spot blennie, carpenters flasher wrasse, coral beauty angel, majestic angel, blue hippo tang, Caribbean blue tang and a majestic fox face. She wanted more but this will be enough of a jump in bioload to handle on a fairly new tank. Lol plenty of job security for me now. Also got a good sized cleanup crew and a bunch of soft corals going in this week. I added the first corals today which were some orange oxides, green nepthea and some neon rhodiactis mushrooms. Pics to come soon.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 17, 2016 21:58:40 GMT -5
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Post by spotfin on Mar 18, 2016 16:26:52 GMT -5
Went back to check out the tank today and sit down with the owner to pick out livestock. $2000 later lol, we will have three boxes of inverts, fish and corals coming in Tuesday. Adding 8 new fish. A royal gramma, tail spot blennie, carpenters flasher wrasse, coral beauty angel, majestic angel, blue hippo tang, Caribbean blue tang and a majestic fox face. She wanted more but this will be enough of a jump in bioload to handle on a fairly new tank. Lol plenty of job security for me now. Also got a good sized cleanup crew and a bunch of soft corals going in this week. I added the first corals today which were some orange oxides, green nepthea and some neon rhodiactis mushrooms. Pics to come soon. Wow! That's quite a bioload for a new tank. Hope all goes well. |
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 18, 2016 19:22:09 GMT -5
Yes that's what I thought too lol. It will be a challenge
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Post by spotfin on Mar 19, 2016 7:30:05 GMT -5
You can do it!
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Apr 2, 2016 16:35:30 GMT -5
So everything went well with that gigantic livestock shipment. We had a couple fish die the second day and had some DOA's with snails shrimp and urchins but everything else has done great. The tank is stable and corals are opening up, fish seem happy as well. I had discovered one major flaw in the installation from the guys who set it up. Tell me what you guys see wrong with this picture? Lol Attachments:
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Apr 2, 2016 16:40:20 GMT -5
Just to give you guys a before and after comparison. Attachments:
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Post by spotfin on Apr 2, 2016 19:54:59 GMT -5
Quite a transformation. Nice work!
Looks like the union fitting wasn't glued?
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Apr 2, 2016 20:40:41 GMT -5
Yup, that was a union for the main pump and it didn't have a spec of PVC cement on it. This whole setup never ceases to amaze me with the amount of stupidity shown in how everything was done. Oh and thanks for the compliment!
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Post by jasonandsarah on Apr 3, 2016 21:08:55 GMT -5
Beautiful start! Can't wait to see this thing mature. Great job Ryan
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