Heathd
Community Member
A move to the east coast and then back to Texas has left me without a saltwater tank for about 2 years. I setup this 75 gallon up once I got moved into my house in Florida and ultimately it became a poorly managed planted freshwater tank. I drilled it an installed a threejole glass holes overflow. I think he has gone out of business, unfortunately.
Reef2reef had the sizzling summer sale and ordered 100lbs of live rock and other items during when liveaquaria offered 20% off.
Its caribsea's moani dry rock, and it was a pretty good deal at 20% off. Came in good manageable sizes with out too much rubble and wasn't terrible dirty either. A couple of pieces had obviously been cut up, and I'm pretty sure this stuff is exactly the same as BRS reef saver or Marco rocks. Its in a brute trash can cycling away
Had to get a new RO unit while I was at it. Decided to get a boosted 150gpd unit and I consider myself spoiled now. It pushes out water incredibly fast and I no longer have to worry about being able to get enough water output.
The stand is sound but was poorly painted by me the first time around. I figured it would be a good time to refinish it and the little electrical cabinet I built to hand next to it.
I also have a QT system now. Its in a closet, and I had to drop power to it, but I think this will totally be worth it. I've never quarantined any of my fish, and if I'm being honest, I've been rather poor about dipping and observing new coral additions in the past. That will change with this tank. Now that I have this completed, fish will be in the house in a couple of weeks. I have some copper power, general cure, etc for the upcoming additions. I haven't quite nailed down what the stocking list will be though.
And finally, I had an issue with letting ammonia go past 5 ppm per the test kit I have. The two raw shrimp I added was an uncontrolled method of introducing ammonia and obviously too much. I had to do a large water change on the trash can and introduce more bacteria to get it to start up. For two weeks it did practically nothing.
Reef2reef had the sizzling summer sale and ordered 100lbs of live rock and other items during when liveaquaria offered 20% off.
Its caribsea's moani dry rock, and it was a pretty good deal at 20% off. Came in good manageable sizes with out too much rubble and wasn't terrible dirty either. A couple of pieces had obviously been cut up, and I'm pretty sure this stuff is exactly the same as BRS reef saver or Marco rocks. Its in a brute trash can cycling away
Had to get a new RO unit while I was at it. Decided to get a boosted 150gpd unit and I consider myself spoiled now. It pushes out water incredibly fast and I no longer have to worry about being able to get enough water output.
The stand is sound but was poorly painted by me the first time around. I figured it would be a good time to refinish it and the little electrical cabinet I built to hand next to it.
I also have a QT system now. Its in a closet, and I had to drop power to it, but I think this will totally be worth it. I've never quarantined any of my fish, and if I'm being honest, I've been rather poor about dipping and observing new coral additions in the past. That will change with this tank. Now that I have this completed, fish will be in the house in a couple of weeks. I have some copper power, general cure, etc for the upcoming additions. I haven't quite nailed down what the stocking list will be though.
And finally, I had an issue with letting ammonia go past 5 ppm per the test kit I have. The two raw shrimp I added was an uncontrolled method of introducing ammonia and obviously too much. I had to do a large water change on the trash can and introduce more bacteria to get it to start up. For two weeks it did practically nothing.
