Cale's SCA 150G Upgrade

[cale0721]

A few updated pictures

 

[keelo]

It’s Marco rock .. I ordered 120 lbs

Even the nice shelf parts too ? I’m digging the scape man! I ordered 120 pounds for mine and 20 pounds of shelf rock so let’s see but it’s the all white version. Any tips for the handling the ugly stage ?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

A few updated pictures

Your tank is looking great!

 

[cale0721]

Even the nice shelf parts too ? I’m digging the scape man! I ordered 120 pounds for mine and 20 pounds of shelf rock so let’s see but it’s the all white version. Any tips for the handling the ugly stage ?

It is. I ordered 4 regular boxes, 1 box hybrid and 1 box shelf then used their mortar mix to build a structure.

My advice for the ugly stage is dose as many different type of bacteria you can.

I used prodibo start up that includes ammonia stop which allowed my to add fish within 24 hours then I started dosing microbactor 7 every day for 2 weeks. Then I started testing nitrate and phosphate everyday, you don’t want either of those numbers to be zero. You want to feed the good bacteria so that it out competes the bad stuff.

I also had some bio spheres from my old tank (about 10) that I seeded into the new tank as well.

 

[cale0721]

Your tank is looking great!

Thank you!

 

[cale0721]

Updated fish stock list

Hippo tang

Bella goby

Blue sided wrasse

Red fin wrasse

Yellow coris wrasse

Naoko’s wrasse

Midas Benny

Purple fire fish X 2

Pink streak Cryptic wrasse

Red Mandarin goby

Bangi cardinal X 2

Clown fish X 2 - snow storm and flurry design

Male pintail fairy wrasse

Copper band butterfly

 

[Rocks reef]

Hi everyone!

I've been in the saltwater hobby for a little over 15 years and the entire time I've had 2 different 75-gallon aquariums. My first 75 was not drilled and I used a canister filter. My next 75-gallon was a Marineland reef ready, which is what I am upgrading from now.

On August 22nd, I ordered an SCA 150-gallon aquarium from SC Aquariums website. I ordered the model drilled for the Synergy Shadow overflow. The last two weeks I've been slowly emptying my Marineland. Today is the day for the delivery of my 150! I plan to post about my task and equipment but wanted to get a thread started to hold me accountable! :)


Picture before break down :

Is that a big colony of blastos growing up the left rear corner?

 

[cale0721]

Is that a big colony of blastos growing up the left rear corner?

No they are mushrooms that started as one on the sand bed then took over the glass lol