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I'm happy to report that after three weeks of planning, two phone calls and about 40 emails, my next tank - my dream tank - has been ordered. I'm going to walk around like this for the next six weeks.



This is a custom-built Marineland 400g, built to my exacting specifications. You saw my drawings a few weeks ago, and the guys at Marineland did the math to make ...

Take a deep breath, & relax...

This weekend, I received some blueprints of the new tank. It states on them that I can't share them without their express permission, so I'll ask. It looks like we are very close to getting the tank ordered, which is the first step of many.

The LR barrel has been running on auto pilot. It's just a bunch of rock, water, and a Mag pump. I had a second barrel of rock that was cycling due to the Leather's demise (I'm assuming it is dead by now, and haven't heard back yet). I've been ...

I've been ignoring how the pendants were hanging at an angle over the SPS vat, but it bugged me. I wanted to direct the light down into the vat and get them level, so I thought about various options.

The easiest solution was to use one of the spare Vortech magnets I use when building sumps to keep the two pendants straight. Simple, free, and it works.



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Today is the 25th day since the reef was taken down... the livestock has been in vats and I've done my best to maintain stable water parameters.

Within the first few days, alkalinity shot up to 15dKH, and it took a week to let that burn off to 9 again. Currently, the water measures 10 dKH and the calcium reactor seems to be dialed in for the current set up.

Within the first few days, PO4 was .03ppm. Amazed and impressed, I was happy to not have to worry about that number. ...