So after a few months in procrastinating and collecting bits and pieces for it I finally got my new tank up and running over the past week finally cumulating in it starting its cycling today
This was my first setup with the rock I had initially
I then acquired several more pieces of rock last week and ended up putting over 200 pounds in the tank and filling it with 80 gallons of water keeping it circulating and heated as half was live rock while I was at work didn't want to fully commission tank till I was on my 4 days off. I also went and put on the left hand of the tank Crushed Coral and the right half of the tank Course sand to an inch in depth wanted to try something and put 2 types of medium in the tank.
Due to budget constraints I am currently using 2 tanks for my sump system and had to do some redneck tinkering
And the return sump
I am using a Hydor controller and a Coralife power center to run everything and seems to be doing a great job
I did a simulated power outage and I keep everything contained but barely working on an 8 hr UPS but that is still a ways off and still have to add the live rock from my existing 33 gallon and associated critters but I am off to a good start hopefully shouldn't take too long to cycle used 35 gallons of water from water changes in my 33 gallon tank along with about 70 gallons of premade salt water