New 5g Pico tank

Well this is the way it happened, wife works for kindercare and they had this fish tank. Wifey told me hey im goign to bring this home so you can look at it and tell me if we can use it. Me- im thinking a 10g little tank or something, well she walks thru the door with a 5g pico, I was like heck no thats staying here and ill give you guys a 35g bowfront. Lol thru more research its a hawkeye international tank and came with a biowheel/media filter, 50/50 15w bulb, hood. So I had some extra rubble laying around and decided today was the day to set it up. Plan is to have a softie tank like zoos and some shrooms and a cleaner shrimp since there pretty cool. I took some pics of the process and still deciding if im goign to go with sand or leave as is, prolly sand and since I have alot in my fuge I may just get 2 cups and throw it in there but scared as it may stir up some nitrates in my tank. Let me know what you guys would do and think.

 

wow i realy like the rock work

 

ty, made some spots for plugs to sit. lol the things we can do with spare parts laying around. I want to get a small powerhead and place underneath the middle rock for current all over. prolly gonna fill with water today but idk bout sand right now

 

you should go with the black sand that way the greens and reds on the zoas will pop like crazy jmo everyone has there own taste

 

ummmm yummy cheezit and pepsi lol did u get hungrey from working to hard?

 

lol ya and eating a chimichanga right now!

With the black sand I never thought of that and sounds like a good idea, i have the indo pacific in my tank now and like it alot.

 

So I moved it to my desk and took some pics, wife said it wouldnt fit but you know us guys we always gotta prove them wrong, just had to pull desk out a lil and bam here it is. Also a local reefer is hooking me up with some sand for the tank in exchange for the crazy amount of cheato I have. Hope you enjoy and I cant wait to get this thing up and running!





heres a side shot showing still have plenty of room

 

its guna be hard to do water changes ect without get the computer wet and also the salt will evaporate and get on everything

 

lol nah thought about the wc and not gonna have salt evaporate on anything besides inside, never had probs with my big one. The wc ill just move to front of desk and do that.

 

ok good idea

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