I found a decent table for my tank, and it just barely fits the filter.
The plumbing was finished today, so I'm testing the filter, flow, and heater.
The DIY rock is still a long way from being cured, it turns out, so I'll be doing a fishless cycle on the biomedia and substrate in a separate tank. Hopefully this concurrent activity will save me a lot of time.
I just need to finish the canopy and lower trim, and the hard work is done. Then it's just a matter of the rock curing and the media cycling before I can add livestock...
(Fortunately, I have a few freshwater tanks to play with in the meantime.)
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