135 tank journal

Well, it seems like everyone has exhausted their congratulatory posts... BUT NOT ME!!! Good grief man, what a deal. That's like right place right time, right temperature, correct sunlight, bird chirps, car passes. And you're doing everything correctly so far as I can see. But I'm just coming back into the hobby. I want to see this tank from start to finish. Pictures of adding the water, the rock, the sand, etc. Very nice buddy. Make it glorious.

 

the custom skimmer i got with the 100 gallons

 

the 100 gallon tank.

 

oopps forgot the pic here is the 100 gallon tank:

 

the t5 lights......just going to sell these there is 4 bulbs:

 

here is the wet dry sump i took out all the bio balls and they are currently in a bucket...i also have 2 5 gallons buckets full of live sand!\

 

here is the live rock that came with the 100, it wasnt 200 pounds i could tell, but havent weighed it yet...will try soonish though.\

 

here are more pics of the rock:

 

and here is a pic of the stand that i painted black with the 135 on it.

 

now here comes the questions......if i take the water and the rock with new sand that i cleaned out a while ago.......the ratu base rock. and like a scoop of my live sand from the 55 gallon, and like 70 or 80 gallons of fresh salt water.....will it only take like 2 or 3 weeks to cycle????

also you have seen my live rock in the current 55 gallon, can i take some rock from there to help???


oh then once everything if out of the 55 i am taking the live sand and cleaning it in water until its all cleaned (prob. will take me like 3 hours!) then let it go through a ro water wash could i put it in the 135 then>????


all comments are helpful!!