My lil' 75 project

[Johnnyboy]

Here's a thread to show you all what will soon be my lil' piece of ocean. This is a 75g that has been out of service for 4 years and was used for 2 years prior to that. The tank furniture was bought premade and all I had to do was stain it to my liking and I also added handles to the doors. It actually became storage as you can see after so much time of not being used

Lighting consists of 10k daylight and actinic PC's.

The project officially started August 1st, 2008

Before starting:

 

[Johnnyboy]

Here are the handles I added:

Painting the background:

Decided to do PVC instead of flex hose. These are the pictures of the original idea. I had a 10g that I was planning on using as a Refugium along with the Wet/dry but that was scratched as it was a pain to get the water from the Refugium to the wet/dry:

 

[Johnnyboy]

Added water an salt to my mini ocean along with 80/lb of Arogonite and finished running wiring for the PC's:

Shots of the new and final plan with the setup. Decided to use HD Rubbermaid tote (27 Quarts) and transferred water from there via bulkhead and hose. I went this route because no glass shops or LFS shops around here wanted to drill into my 10g tank

Still have to add the Protein skimmer in my wet/dry, get a good bulb for the Refugium light and have some tidying up to do:

 

[Johnnyboy]

Yesterday I got 4 really nice pieces that were from a 3 year old tank that was tore down. Going to use it to seed my base rock

Under the light

FTS

 

[Johnnyboy]

And more

UPS dropped by for a visit today with a gift in hand......what can it be?

ALRIGHT!! It's my base rock. Here's one half of the load

Here she is loaded. Still have more to add but the pieces are too big. Time for a hammer

That's where it stands right now. More coming soon!

 

[ahayes13]

are you keeping the bio balls in? i had tons of probs with them being a nitrate absorber. i took all mine out and now have a filter bag in place, they went from being like 80-100 to now 10. something you may want to consider.......

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

yeah i agree get rid of the bio balls asap same problem with the trates lol mine are close to 0 after a month or so of getting them lower but any ways love the look of you 75 i have a 75 as well but i just picked up a 125 so ill be starting a build thread very soon

 

[dfurbee]

I agree, dump the bio balls!!