My 75g Tank

Thank you for the kind words everyone

 

Very nice, I like your sump set up.

 

Nice! Did you glue your LR together? Love the way it looks! Kas

 

Now the really hard part Just set back and wait.. Life will start and in a few weeks more can be added just go slow ad allow it all to take root and to catch up. Its all going through some vary large and real changes now .. Just get the water parameters solid and stable.. And avoid that pitfall.

 

Ditto

Learn to Live With It ​

Adam Blundell M.S. ​

"...As surprising as it may seem your tank will look ugly at first. This happens to all new marine aquariums as they cycle through their initial filtration phase. Your tank may go brown, and then green, and then red, and then just look junky. It happens. Consequently the one coral you really want to keep may not live. You may struggle to raise the prize fish you originally intended to acquire. It's okay; just learn to love whatever is working for you. Remember, not only is this a hobby, but we are keeping living ecosystems. Special efforts should be put forth to enjoy and appreciate what we are keeping, whatever it may be. It takes time and patience to turn a glass box full of rock into a beautiful, thriving reef tank..."

Good Luck!


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Nice tank, your on the right start, especially adding the fuge in the beggining of setup unlike some of us,*me*, did.

 

Yeah, waiting is hard but worth it in the end I'm sure! I do other small things to keep myself busy, for example I got a few light timers today and I mounted my surge protectors up on my stand to allow for drip cords. Cleaning the glass sometimes keeps me busy too, like I said its the small things Oh and I do water tests a lot, I dunno I think they're fun

And Kas, nope no glue on the live rock... It took me over 2 hours to get the rock like that lol! I had a few good structures before but they'd collapse, finally focused more on stability rather then looks and ended up with this. I'm happy with it, it's not what I had originally planned but things rarely play out like we plan them . It's stable though, and thats all that counts!

Again thanks for the kind words everyone!

 

We're still waiting on some more pics....

 

Latest water test, 02-20-08

Water Temp = 79
Salinity = 1.025
pH = 8.1

DKH = 12.25
Ca = 340 mg/l
Mg = 1440 mg/l

More pictures coming soon!

 

You need to try and keep that Ca around 450 all others look great!