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You don't realize how much has happened on your journey until you go to write it out. I started my tank 5 years ago and a lot has happened in that time.
My tank sat in my living room for anost 3 months with nothing in it as I bought the equipment needed, carefully and thoughtfully picked out what fish and corals I wanted. You know what they say about making plans..lo
Finally I put water in my tank, let the power heads and filter work on the converted tap water for a week, then added a very deep sandbed ( if only I had known ). My tank is 50 or 55 gal glass tank not drilled and I gave it a 6inch deep sandbed and under the sand a thin layer of pebble rock ( to somehow make my structures more sturdy before I knew how much the rock weighed). 5 years later I am still picking those pebbles out of the sand when they surface ( eye roll). Then I added my live rock slowly over the next month from various shops in order to get different colored rocks ( another eye roll ) . Because I added rock over time and then seeded it with extra beneficial bacteria and then copepods I let the tank cycle almost another 2 months before putting anything in it. I started with invertebrates and thej worked my way up to fish. Started with Bengaii and Pajama Cardinals. Then clowns, a foxface, etc. More to come...
My tank sat in my living room for anost 3 months with nothing in it as I bought the equipment needed, carefully and thoughtfully picked out what fish and corals I wanted. You know what they say about making plans..lo
Finally I put water in my tank, let the power heads and filter work on the converted tap water for a week, then added a very deep sandbed ( if only I had known ). My tank is 50 or 55 gal glass tank not drilled and I gave it a 6inch deep sandbed and under the sand a thin layer of pebble rock ( to somehow make my structures more sturdy before I knew how much the rock weighed). 5 years later I am still picking those pebbles out of the sand when they surface ( eye roll). Then I added my live rock slowly over the next month from various shops in order to get different colored rocks ( another eye roll ) . Because I added rock over time and then seeded it with extra beneficial bacteria and then copepods I let the tank cycle almost another 2 months before putting anything in it. I started with invertebrates and thej worked my way up to fish. Started with Bengaii and Pajama Cardinals. Then clowns, a foxface, etc. More to come...