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06-28-2006, 05:01 AM
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rebuilding the reef.
Well Saturday I finally got off my lazy a$$ and tore the tank down, scraped the coralline off the glass and drained it.. scraped more coralline and siphoned the crud out of the bottom, after putting 5 gal of calurpa in my compost.
anyways once it was cleaned up I filled it dumped 2 gal of bleach in it and turned it on. tonight I neutralized the bleach and drained the tank, filled it, ran for 10 min and drained it again now I am filling it once more. if it runs clear I will be putting 5 gal of vinegar in it and running it while I am camping. more to come. Steve
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06-28-2006, 06:09 AM
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Why bleach it, is the tank pretty grody? So no tank currently setup right now?
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06-28-2006, 11:06 AM
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Steve
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*everything said above is just my opinion, and may or may not reflect the views of this BBS, its Operators, and its Members. If cornered on any “opinion” I post I will totally deny having ever said this in a Court of Law…Unless I am the right one*Some strive to be perfect.... I just strive.
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07-09-2006, 11:07 PM
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well cleaning process is over, 4 days running 100 gal system with 2 gal of bleach, the 8 water changes after neutralizing the bleach. 10 day of running with 5 gal of vinegar, and 4 water changes and on the last one I ran it for 24 hours with a double dose of tap water conditioner to make sure I got all the chemicals out.
now I am filling it with RO. I am going to fill it completely then mix the salt. as I add rock I will have to remove water but I will use that water to do a water change on my old rock I have cooking in the garage. Steve
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*everything said above is just my opinion, and may or may not reflect the views of this BBS, its Operators, and its Members. If cornered on any “opinion” I post I will totally deny having ever said this in a Court of Law…Unless I am the right one*Some strive to be perfect.... I just strive.
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07-18-2006, 12:38 PM
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well, salinity is at 1.022, going to adjust it up a little more maybe after I check it tonight as that was with a high water level so I let it evaporate down to normal. I am not putting any rock in yet as I am painting out the front room as we speak. for thoes that are interested cloverdale paints makes a new one that has absolutly no smell (painted two coats of two walls on sunday night and then went for coffee... came home and you could not smell the new paint whats so ever)
looks like the rock survived the fresh water garage reef, lots of coraline still on it and snails and crabs still running around, so maybe by next weekend I will be ready to move stuff over... but I have to finnish painting first  Steve
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