22 Gallon Seamless Glass Curved Bowfront Reef

very nice man looking good keep up the good work

 

Well here are some updated shots, showing you the moonlights hung and an idea of how i wired them through the light pennant. I really like it. I would take a picture of the tank under the moonlights but my camera phone just makes the light look way too bright so once i get my moms camera ill snap some shots. Until then, enjoy the fancy, professional look of my new moonlights in place! lol

The 2nd pic is with antinics and moons on, just so you dont think they are so bright and oddly colored ;D

So i guess the next steps for this tank is get the resivior for ro/di set up when the bulkheads arrive along with the float valve and auto shut off system coming, tape (or something) the black background in place, and get my sump plans figured out and ordered! woo hoo! O ya and i have to install the new phosphate reactor i ordered from BRS today!!! (It will arrive on thursday along with the bulkheads and ASO & float valve) Looks like equiptment wise and aesthetics im headed in the right direction! finally, in the 3 years ive been involved with fish...

O and please excuse the salt creep all over in the first pic, i turned the mp10 on a little too high of a wave movement (messing around with it) and water got out ;D Looks like i have some cleaning to do...

As for cycling, Im about 5 weeks into it. Ammonia is down, nitrite is up, nitrate is down. Looks like the next step is nitrite goes down and nitrate goes up a bit and im done and ready to start dosing everything and add a fish!

 

Thanks! And yes, i do for sure stare at it constantly... Imagine trying to do homework! I cant imagine how hard its going to be to stay on focus while studying for finals next week. God!

Thanks bud! Ya, ive been trying to plan everything out but ya know, every now and then things go off coarse.

Thanks, will do man! Appreciate it

 

very nice! im liking the moonlights, im very jealosu

 

Thanks puffer, im glad you appreciate this tank so much.


Well im getting excited, my prediction about the cycle was right. Nitrite is dropping (down to 3.0ppm) and my nitrate is slowly rising (up to 20ppm). I know 20ppm is safe for nitrate, so i guess its a matter of whether it will rise more or stay there and if my nitrite is going to continue to lower. Im really excited to start building my reef, and i think we all know how hard it is to wait out a cycle Well ill definitely keep you guys posted. Hopefully as a little surprise to my mom and dad i can have a fish in there by the time they get back from their cruise. I hope!

 

well params are the same but my rock is really starting to color in, doesnt look as artificial and is starting to look like one big sculpture in stead of a bunch of small rocks zip tied. Thanks algae! Ill take pics later. Sadly im still working out my sump designs so no progress on that yet. Ill continue to keep you in the loop!

 

glad to see some updates, hopefully youll get some fish in there soon

 

Well good news. My nitrite is down to 1.0 finally but still not good enough. My nitrate stayed the same but thats ok. Im going to start adding buffer for ph and alk just to raise that a little bit. Other than that, everythings going awesome! Looks like my first fish is going to be a B&W clown I cant wait. I predict within 1.5 BARE MINIMUM to two weeks ill have the 'reborn' tanks first fish. I will for SURE keep you guys in the loop with this fish and the cycle.

If you guys were wondering, yes i did change the title of the thread ;D thought it was more persuasive in making you click on it

PS: I dont have the sump on order yet still because every time i tell the guy its the one i want and i posted a thread making sure its ok, someone posts a remark thats just enough to make me second guess myself. So what im saying is, no skimmer or phosphate reactor have ran yet. O well, im trying to get it squared away. Id rather have a skimmer going when i get my fish though just to be safe.

Thanks for viewing!