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Originally Posted by Triggz
Pure awesomeness!! Really good job Adam!
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Thanks!
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Originally Posted by fishytime
gimme the keys.....I'll go put salt in the beast for ya  |
hehe, beat you to it. Specific gravity = 1.025
It took a bucket and a third, plus 24 hours to add, dissolve, test, then add some more.
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Originally Posted by gregzz4
It's lookin' great from here. Only thing I'd suggest is, because you haven't drilled the rock, you might consider using epoxy to stave off the risk of rockslides.
That is, once you have your live rock in place and are happy with it.
I used small acrylic rods and epoxy to attach my base rocks to squares of acrylic. I didn't want to cover the tank bottom with eggcrate. In my case, even just 1" of sand will cover what I have done.
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Yah I'm thinking I'm going to do that when i get the live rock. I'm hoping I'm able to open up the structure a bit, and I can banish some of the cycled marco rock to the sump
and speaking of the cycle... It's started! I added enough pure ammonium chloride to get the ammonium up to 2ppm, and I've got 10 cocktail shrimp in a mesh bag in the sump. I then dumped in a 250ml bottle of Dr. Tim's 1 and only live nitrifying bacteria. I'm not convinced it will 'eliminate' the cycle, but I am expecting it to speed it up a little.
Presently:
Ammonia = 2.0
Nitrite = 0
Nitrate = 0
Phosphate = 0.10 (I assume it's leaching from my rock and sand)
I didn't have time to test the other ions except Alk, and the salt mixed up to a dKh of 10.3
Next steps:
1. I need to sort out the remote R/O reservoir and top off system. The float valve for the R/O unit is right in the sump right now. That makes me hella nervous
2. The lights are scheduled for arrival in Calgary on Monday, and I need to get the hanging situation figured out soon.
3. The heaters. I have ordered 3 300 watt heaters, but the more I read about heaters, the less I think that was a good idea. I'm thinking I need a larger titanium heater that's controlled by a controller? Any thoughts? I've got two temporary heaters on the tank right now, a 300W loaner, and a fluval digital (e-series I think I can't remember the wattage) from my 90, but together they can't get the water past 23.5 degrees.
4. I need to set up my skimmer and reactors. The Deltec is sitting on the floor begging to go in the tank and suck out the cloudiness from my sand, but the water in the skimmer chamber is 19.5 inches deep. I have the egg crate and PVC I need to make the stand the skimmer will sit on, but it turns out I have neither the tools, nor the skill to cut 4 pieces of pvc the same length and with flat edges. I also don't have the tools I need to affix the egg crate to the legs.
Does anyone know of a place where I can go to get PVC cut so that the ends are perfectly flat? My hand saw skills have no kung fu.