Soooo been awhile since the last update on the tank...I have a couple of videos up on youtube;
http://youtu.be/gHmotiBbVv0
and
http://youtu.be/gjrKbOo7Pus
(sorry for the background noise, I'm not really great at the video editing!)
But it gives you an idea of how the tank was looking.....did you catch that "was"? The tank had a leak.....and a fairly bad one...so last Sunday we ripped it down, transferred all contents to my 150g (luckily it hadn't sold yet) and some of our store tanks, and cleaned it out
A company from Victoria came to our store, cleaned the old silicone off and resealed it all....and found there was not only 1 leak but 3!!!!! So, now we go into rebuild mode.....to look on the bright side, we won't have to do it again, and we were able to change some of the plumbing that we weren't happy with...and we put a better base under it with some underlay to help cushion it. The rebuild has started...we did save all our sand, cleaned a good portion of it and put that in.....all our water was saved, and all our rock is still perfect. We put the sand back in yesterday, and added some water to start circulating again, and start skimming again, so it's circulating through the sump now, and we added a truckload of Hagen Cycle. Going to check some levels over the next week to see what kind of die off we still had/have in the sand...hoping to get it up in a week...but we'll see. FAIRLY excited to get it back up and running as it really is missed by customers and staff alike! Will try to update it when we put stuff back in and get another video up. Wish us luck, we're going to need it!