Digital Aquatics

Here's a little video of my new Tang. I really like the color and structure of the Atlantic Blue Tang. He'll do great in the tank (while he's still small.) He'll be my excuse to upgrade to a 120 some day in about a year or two.

By the way, ignore the PJ cardinal in the tank everyone else does... There's a story behind him and I will have him until he dies because of it! Unlike a certain damsel fish (who will remain nameless,) as he picks on EVERYONE in the 20g tank... ...

Well after a weekend of work on the new tank here's my "Zoo-City" as I've dubbed it. I've places all my zoos in the same area of tank and I'm hoping for all of them to grow together into a mosaic of zoos over the next year. I wasn't going to move this much over this soon but the water quality was where I wanted to see it and everything is rocking and rolling so why not!



Another ...

20k MH mounted over the tank now... I like enough I'm going to keep it - kind of. I'm going to drop down to a 14k and then add a couple 2' T5 actinics.



I restacked the rock, much better now as I have some great ledges for coral (might not be clear in the picture.) I also have plenty of room for the rock from the old tank that I'll start moving over in a week or two.

Still a bit cloudy but I'm OK with that!!! I'll be filtering/cleaning for another week or so then I'll start adding some stuff as long as my levels check out. Until then it's on to my lighting and setting up the controller!

The cool thing is I'm going to do a video of all the stages of the controller setup and we'll have those on YouTube also.

I'm going to use an RKL for now and I'll show an upgrade to an RKE later this year. It'll ...

1) Drain water
2) Wash sand (hope it's enough)
3) Add RO water
4) Start adding salt
5) Check water and wonder why the salinity is sooooo high??? (Did they give me mixed water at the store? -I need to get my RO/DI unit set up.)
6) Water looks better, now we'll see how it does in the morning.
7) 9pm and I'm heading home...