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[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looking good and congrats!

 

[mjr]

Got the Marco rocks. Really happy with the selection.

 

[mjr]

Playing with rocks-scaping. Sand is on the way.

 

[mjr]

Light arrived. 36" odyssea t5 fixture.
I have a couple led textures I will add to the setup, but they would not have been enough on their own.

 

[mjr]

Fish room / utility room construction has begun

The wall has come down and I started to construct the tank shelf. More updates on the way... I hope to have the stand and new walls completed in the next week or so.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Cool! Like the rock!

 

[mjr]

Thanks. I have got some new livestock, too. Can't wait to have this tank running.

 

[mjr]

Fish room utility room has a door

 

[mjr]

Sump and refugium planning. Advice please!

I was planing on using a 20 long I have as the sump, but decided to pick up a 29 gallon as well. I'd like to use the 29 as a fuge and put a few fish and cleaner shrimp in there. My idea is to drain into the 29 with a filter sock, and have the 29 gravity feed to the 20 long where I will have the skimmer, return pump, ato and reactors.

Any thoughts on this approach? I am on the fence and am tempted to just setup without a refugium. I am still deciding whether I should order the additional bulkheads and drill the 29.

 

[mjr]

Working out the sump design in this thread:

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/do...f-sump-refugium-advise-29-gallon-20-long.html

 

[mjr]

Rockscaping

Decided to go with as much height as possible with the dry rock since I can epoxy everything in place. I have few live rocks in my other tanks that I will stack up around the Marco rock formations and add some mass to the towers.

 

[mjr]

Rockscaping coming together. The sand is only 1.5 inches deep so I ordered another 40# of Marco sand and a few more rocks.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

I like it!

 

[mjr]

 

[chefb_5]

O ya bring on the Progress!

 

[J062682l]

The elusive and territorial Regal Damoiselle (or whatever it is called. I just liked it when a saw it in the store)




The clownfish before he was evicted from the tank for trying to host in and eating ricordia.


Nina chasing a goby.

Did you place this tank in a wall!!

 

[mjr]

Yep. Tank will be pretty much flush with the wall. Walls are framed out, but I have not gotten a chance to put the paneling up yet. I should get to that this weekend. I'll post pics soon.

 

[J062682l]

I mean this little tank the cat is fixated on ?

 

[mjr]

Did you place this tank in a wall!!

If you are referring to the tank with the cat in front of it. No.

That tank is only 4.5 inches deep. A real PITA to maintain, but it looks great.

 

[mjr]

Added another batch of Marco sand. I did not clean it as much as the last batch, and you can tell the difference. Looked like this for a day or two.