This is really cool, those kids are very lucky.
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Place the brutte on the roller made for it and it will be a much easier chore. A MJ 1200 power head with about 5-6 feet of aquarium hose connected to it make water changes a lot easier and less risky. A cabinet in the class room dedicated to the aquarium equipment will probably be very helpful down the road. check out the water change stations threads on here and on RC.He helped set up the RODI to the trash cans, but he didn't know about the pumps I now have in them(until last night). He was just talking to me yesterday about how easy it would be to put a pump and a water line coming out of the garbage cans instead of using buckets, but I don't really have room to store that much pipe or hose without it being an eye-sore, and I don't want to have it permanently running across my room. The area the cans are in is a storage area shared by 6 other science teachers, and I'm already taking up a ton of room with my new stuff ;Sorry.
Place the brutte on the roller made for it and it will be a much easier chore. A MJ 1200 power head with about 5-6 feet of aquarium hose connected to it make water changes a lot easier and less risky. A cabinet in the class room dedicated to the aquarium equipment will probably be very helpful down the road. check out the water change stations threads on here and on RC.
That sounds like a decent system. Can you post pictures of the set up? You can begin running the skimmer when the cycle is complete. Some folks start them right away, but I have found there is no need until you have heavier biological activity going on in the tank.That's what I currently have for my salt water can, but the fresh water can (I have a 75g planted freshwater tank in my room as well) is not on wheels because it is directly hooked to my RODI & has a float on it. I'm nervous to have that one on wheels and have something mess up the float or the RODI line & flood the room (I'm on the 3rd floor and that wouldn't go over well!) I'm carry 3g buckets for the freshwater to top off my ATO and to do water changes in the 75g tank.
I do, however, have a 37g storage tote that I use to take waste water out of both tanks to dispose of. It's on a cart so that I can just wheel it to where it needs to be.
I'll have a cabinet in the room for all the maintenance stuff & salt, but the back room currently has things like lights and whatnot that I haven't had a minute to hook up yet. Hopefully they'll go up this weekend, even though I probably won't turn them on until the cycle finishes. On a side note, I do have my skimmer hooked up but currently off. When should I start running that?
A display refugium would be fantastic.I've been considering adding on a "visible" refugium down the road to talk about all of that. Going to gage it on how the kids do with the tank this year - that tank wouldn't have a canopy over it and I don't want things to be able to "accidentally" fall into the tank. For now, we can just open up the stand to see it and to get some of the pods & algae out to look at under scopes when we talk about ecology.
Do you use ro di water in the fresh tank? Or do you use additives first? Post a full tank shot of your fresh water tank too please!
That sounds like a decent system. Can you post pictures of the set up? You can begin running the skimmer when the cycle is complete. Some folks start them right away, but I have found there is no need until you have heavier biological activity going on in the tank.
These are some earlier pictures of the tank to give you an idea... now there is a wooden frame that goes over the fuge where I hang a Mars Hydro light and it’s full of chaeto.
Very nice looking tank. I like the idea of the visible refugium - so much happens in there that people don't really pay attention to due to it not being "pretty." What are the kids' favorite things in the tank? I'm still finalizing my fish list, and would love to hear what's working!