ok so i said i would get this done on the weekend. i procrastinated a bit.
2 hours of standing on my step ladder bending over my tank and i have rocks in a new pile!
it's not awe inspiring but it looks rather neat in person. i'm not sure why my Iphone insists on making my tank look blue but it's not. I couldn't resist building a bridge on the right side of the tank. my inspiration was the collapsing inside wall of a reef... not sure i got it right but it looks OK and gives me more room to mount corals then my old layout did. i just need to find some baseball sized pieces to put my zoas on and i'll scatter those around the sand bed.
now on to water chemistry. so um being new to the hobby i didn't quite grasp how important water chemistry was. I've had fresh water tanks for years and you can let those suckers go for a long time before you're in trouble. not so for saltwater i find out. i'm currently in the pain staking process of bringing my nitrates in line so i can move all my Euphilia back in the tank and bring home my new elegance coral. i have a very kind friend who's been baby sitting it for me tell my water's in line.
besides Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, Phosphate and KH what else should I be testing for? time to sit down and spend some QT with my coral books.
must keep reminding myself that i have 3 months to tinker with this tank before i'm putting the fish back in.