Nice photos! You have an amazing eye for aethestic details. I know you were all trying to sound manly before and not know a thing about the pheasant balls but I no longer believe you. Those things are totally yours aren't they, not your wife's! If nerddom doesn't work out for you you could consider a career in interior design, reef style. No seriously, the way you make an empty tank photograph so nice is quite frankly .. kind of disgusting, and I'm thinking I should just hire you to take every picture I want to post of my own stuff from now on.. I bet I can't afford you though now that you're all famous and stuff.

I really like how you have hung your light that is very classy. Where did you get the idea? You must have a ton of patience.....this will be an amazing tank.

Holy crap, that's quite the system you have going there now. I wish I had wiring skillz like that!!

I totally LOL'd when I read Tony's reply. Too funny.

Outstanding setup! You do very nice work.

Looking forward to watching you stock it.

Pretty much what Tony said LMAO


Lookin great tho, :D And I am thinking of copying your light lifter :D Also the switch panel's where did you find them??

Everything's so new, and clean, and shiny, and organized, and well-planned, and artistic. I'm thinking you should drain the water out and leave it as is: corals and fish would just ruin it. :mrgreen:

Tony you're makin' me blush dangit! I'm no photographer I just mostly point and shoot lol. Thanks for the comments guys.

A question for you guys:

How long does it take for me to see an ammonia spike? Since I've had the thing running I measure around 0.25 and it's held steady. Although the smell in the house has risen a lot today. So much so that I turned the house ventilation on for a few hours. Maybe tonight It will have risen. I was starting to think my rock was pretty clean but now the stink and my skimmate has darkened...

What sort of peak can I expect? The kit maxes at ">2".

Be sure to do water changes to keep ammonia down to prevent the ammonia from killing the life on and in the rock. I think my tanks all seem to peak ammonia at about day 10 or so...? Been awhile since I cycled a tank with uncured rock though.

Just tested again (Salifert) and it's simply a milky white colour. Which means it's still less than 0.25 as the actual scale moves from colourless to shades of yellow. I see no yellow at all so far.

Planning a waterchange on my one week anniversary. Skimmate is getting nastier looking daily.

Thanks.

EDIT: Guess miracles *don't* happen. I'm topping my freshwater reservoir up right now and indeed without the DI I'm getting a reading of 4. Which actually makes me happy because zero seemed unreasonable to me before and I questioned the meter. Also when I fired up the unit It read about 170 and dropped to 4 in about 30 seconds. So TDS creep is also real I'll have to run that water elsewhere for 30 seconds in the future with a diverter valve.

The plot thickens:

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