Tested the water today. First checked the salinity and oddly it was high (1.030) when it should of been low since I added extra top off water for the weekend. Got it down to 1.025, and checking the calibration on my refractometer when I get home.

Happy to report the crab and rock feather duster survived the weekend. Tested the parameters and ammonia is at 0 nitrite 0 and nitrate 10 :biggrin:

Reading through this thread is encouraging - great to hear how folks in the Edm area are coming together to do something like this - great job! Looking forward to seeing it full of lifestock.

Thanks I plan on adding clownfish soon, although I admit its pretty cool to see how excited the kids get just over the tank and rock. A 16 month old (today) kept running to the tank, looked in it, then squealed in excitement and then ran away. Super cute to watch.

I was able to get someone to cover me at work today so I went to Red Coral and got 2 clownfish for the tank :mrgreen: Thank-you Steve for the donation :mrgreen:

The clowns also got names, the darker orange one (at the top of the pic) is nemo (surprise surprise :lol:) and the lighter orange one (below the other one) is Tang, because he looks similar to the colour of Tang orange juice. I admit I had a chuckle to myself at the irony of thinking I have a "tang" in my 8g biocube :lol:

My co-worker Josalynn got a decent pic, which she posted to her Facebook page, and I used the pic for here :biggrin:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/2B24C9FA.jpg

This build is going fairly quickly and I just wanted to clarify that normally you wouldn't be able to move as fast as I am with additions. The only reason I can get away with it is because I started with fully cured, well established, live rock that I transferred from my house to the daycare (which is 20 mins away) and I moved the rock fully submerged in water so that there was little to no die off. Similar to doing a tank transfer.

Got some new additions and took more tank pic's so you can see the aquascape better. All pic's are taken with my iPhone, so not the best quality, but not to bad.

The front of the tank (you can see plastic needle point mesh covering the top overflow because Tang got partly stuck in it his first night in the tank)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/FF50C61E.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/28C23F66.jpg

left side
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/0D809C53.jpg

right side
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/AA7165D9.jpg

Nemo
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/1162DAC6.jpg

Tang
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/9325EABC.jpg

peppermint shrimp (here's hoping he likes aiptasa since I see several in there already :twised:)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...309F70F7-1.jpg

Green clown goby who we named "Hulk" :lol:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...E2F79DA7-1.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/66C873D4.jpg

Grizz came to my work today with awesome LED lights :cheer2:

Thank-you Grizz for donating one strip, and installing them, and thank-you Martin at Modular LED http://www.modularled.ca/ for donating the other strip :biggrin:

Grizz hard at work installing them
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...AC59E445-1.jpg

Much improved light & colour :mrgreen: (the iPhone throws the colour off a bit, but it is way nicer then before)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/FB149981.jpg

That tank needs some coral!!
Ive got a nice green devils hand and some zoas for you Laurie

Agreed! I plan on adding sps so I'll have to pass on the devils hand. In a little tank leather corals would fight to much with the sps and would also take up a fair amount of space. With an anemone going in, there won't be to much space to work with. However I do want to add zoas, they're easy to squeeze in :biggrin: Are you going to the reef meet this Sunday? If you are feel free to bring zoa frags with you and I'll bring them to my work on Monday :mrgreen:

In that case in got pink with blue polyp birdsnest and some red Monti cap

Sweet :biggrin: