135 tank journal

I would go to home Depot/Lowe's and get some play sand, you can find a number of brands that are safe to use by doing a little research online. Then use your current live sand to seed it. Depending on how old your current sand bed is you can turn up some nasty stuff when you starting digging down to the bottom of that. A 50lb bag of play sand will usually run 12 bucks or so last i checked.

 

The reef gods are looking out for YOU for sure! Gadzooks I thought my 125gal with a stand for $300 was a pretty good deal....:

 

ok, um well the sand bed is really old like 2 years, but when i bought it i took the sand out and sifted through the whole thing, and that was in janurary (SP?) and i have stirred is many times by either rough powerheads or over pouring water. so i would say its pretty new all of it looks perfectly white

 

ok so i filled all the holes that were naturally in the wood. and the holes made by screws and nails.
then i sanded everything so it was nice and smooth. and then i put 2 1/4 round peices of molding on the top and the bottom of the stand to make a nice looking molding. unfortunatly painting has to wait another day : /
pics coming soon.

 

ok so i filled all the holes in and sanded them. and put on molding.

here is a pic of all the holes i had to fill : / and this is jsut the top, there were like 10 times that many

 

top molding:



bottom molding:



more top:

 

ok so i just took like a 1,00000000000 pics of my 55 set up right now, and they will be coming soon!

 

I think it's coming along nicely.

 

so the following pics are not so great, i couldnt figure out how to take the flash off, so the color of everything is not as bright and brilliant as it would be in person or w/o the flash lol.

 

cleaner shrimp pics: