Tank Entry

Wooo, long weekend!!!

The tank has been cycling for about two months, and Ive been using ammonia chloride to do a fishless cycle. I decided yesterday that it was ready to go. Here are a few pics.

Plumbing for the carbon and biopellet reactors, close to being finished.


The brittle stars that I tried to save from the previous tank. A little difficult since I used ...

Just a little update. Im sort of slow on getting this done.

Got the LR from BRS. I am impressed with the rock, and the sizes they gave me. The piece of shelf that they gave me is more then I expected... im not complaining, i just got to figure out what to do with it. The pukani is really light stuff.

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Fiance told me that she woke up to see them laying eggs on the front glass. She didnt get any pictures of the act, but she did send me some of the egg patch. Hopefully at least a few make it out of this.

Thought I would share...

Its going to be slow. I am in and out of travel to Israel, but I am trying to move through this as fast as possible.

The tank before I started on the rock background and after I had been tinkering with it a little.


The sand I will be using, all 160lbs of it. I think this will be nice and not fly all over the place like the sugar grain stuff I currently have in my 75. ...

I think this is my first blog post here on Reef Addicts.Today I've been trying to make some changes to my rock work, namely removing a lot of it, because of it catching food and other undesirables. I also went through a major scrub down on some hair algae about two months ago, and added 6 mithrax crabs that have destroyed the bubble algae. As much as I think they are jerks, I have to contend that they do a good job.

Its a 75 gallon with 2 Koralia 3 power heads, a mag5 & mag7 for ...