Heathd

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 ...

Managed to get enough plumbing done today to do a leak test on the tank. I still have some more to go for my reactors, but thats not necessarily a priority right now. So far, so good on leaks, which is surprising. I think I am going to work on my storage cabinet next, and it will house my CO2 bottle, dj power station, and ATO container.


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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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Well, after wondering what has been eating snails eggs, hermits, snails, and coral... I finally found out what it was. Fiancee called me while I was at work to let me know that one my my mithrax crabs looked really funny and was eating a snail. I followed up with a series of questions and figured I had a gorilla crab.

Its not a gorilla crab, but none the less, a nasty one that needed to be removed. He put up a good fight, and now he resided in my sump. Its beyond me how he got in my ...

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...