Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

You will be very happy with that skimmer. I have a octopus skimmer(its not a HoB thou) and i LOVE it! Nice pickup!

 

and some more pics, i'm not going to put it together until i'm ready to put fish in the tank, the thick tube doesn't fit in the space of my glass lid but the smaller tube fits fine, but i'll probably have to look into egg crate for a lid because of that.


And i added a piece of raw shrimp to get my cycling going

 

thanks i hope so too

 

Trust me you will love the picture of the raw shrimp lol

 

haha right now that's the most interesting new thing in the tank

 

The shrimp is working! The shrimp is working!

Tests readings are going down!!

Testing Week 2:

Nitrite: .5
Nitrate: 20
Ammonia: .25

I can't wait! maybe 2 more weeks and i'll be able to have fish!!!

I'm also getting coralline everywhere!!! i even noticed a tiny teal spot on one of the bottom rocks! this stuff is pretty cool! i can't wait until it spreads in bigger portions

 

Woohoo...teal...: Haha.

Nice one on the skimmer! Welcome to the ReefOctopus club

And I think your shrimp died...i'm not sure though...he could be sleeping

 

hahah yea, i think he's just a little tired, since he's the only thing in the tank right now, i will call him shrimpy Thanks i can't wait to see how it skimms

 

So today i told my parents that when i move out of the house i refuse to sell this tank for next to nothing on craigslist. I then told them that i will teach them how to take care of everything, and that i should start teaching them now as the tank begins. They didn't say no about them taking care of it so thats good They seem to be taking interest in the tank. Today i showed my parents the possible hitchhiker coral, and they said is it good or bad, and i told them i don't know and that i would have to research about it. I showed my dad all of the coralline and he said that live rock is really neat because it is alive. So i think the tank is here to stay

 

so i think that more white is starting to go over some of the diatoms that i have on my rocks