Marc11 50 Gallon Cube Build/Restart

[Marc11]

Painted fixture white with krylon fusion and bolted it to conduit. Had to temporarily throw up the radion for this pic.

The cord will be hidden behind conduit when I put T5's up.
This bring me up to date with my build. Had shoulder surgery last week so it's been a little slow going. I plan on getting T5's and cords hidden today or tomorrow depending how much football I watch today.

As for the tank my ammonia is still high. I have been dosing bacteria I got from a LFS but it's still slow going. Plan on ordering some Microbacter7 today to try and speed things up.

 

[Masedaddy]

Looks great Mark! This tank is going to be a real gem! I can't wait to see it first hand. Keep up the good work!!!

 

[Marc11]

Thanks Mason. If I can get my corals to look half as nice as yours then I'll be happy.

 

[Aslam Abraham]

Well thought build, tagging.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Looking very good!

 

[MermaidTail]

Awesome!!!

 

[Marc11]

I plan on doing more this week. Unfortunately not only am i recuperating from my surgery but I apparently have shingles. Perfect timing for the Holidays!

 

[Marc11]

Thank you to everyone tagging along. I too am excited about this build.

 

[CHEF]

love the tank

 

[kazikage42]

That lighting rack looks awesome

 

[Big B]

Verdy Nice!

 

[Useful_Idiot]

Great attention to detail. Nice neat and clean . Did you look any more into possible CO2 from your well eating up the DI?

 

[Marc11]

Thanks. I have not looked into CO2 yet. For now I guess ill just go through a lot of resin. Just got PH probe up and running. PH is between 8.17 and 8.22.

 

[Marc11]

Ammonia is gone but cant seem to get Nitrite down. Do people still ghost feed during Nitrite phase of cycling or no?

 

[truepercs]

I would try to get some type of life going in the tank... Seed live rock, copods,etc...

 

[Marc11]

I have a piece of liverock. Algae just started to go nuts, so hopefully it is speeding up.

 

[Marc11]

Nitrites still through the roof, going to give it till the weekend then Pick up another test kit to make sure mine is working fine.

 

[Chrisfish]

Really nice thread, tank , stand and rock scape are awesome. Will be following.

 

[Marc11]

Apparently my tank does not want to follow the rules of nature and will not cycle. My ammonia is at 0 but my nitrites are high and will not come down. I added some live rock as well as microbater 7, and even tried special blend. Added two chromis to see if that will help. Its been over 3 weeks and it wont come down. I kept and eye on PH and it never dropped below 8.15 so not sure what stalled the cycle.

 

[nchin]

Very nice build.