Murdoch's 160G Tank Build

[doch]

When I got home this morning I did A LOT of work in the tank. I scraped the back wall with a fish net, scooped up all of the hair algae that I could and flushed it. I missed a few spots though... oops. Then, I took out one of my frag racks, sprayed it down in the bath tub and got rid of all of the hair algae on it. I'm going to do the other one tomorrow when I ge home from work at 7am!! Then, I took my skimmer and zeo reactor out, cleaned the skimmer from top to bottom, and emptied the zeo reactor. Once emptied, I set the flow of the pump to ~250gph as per the recommendations of the Zeo forums. The skimmer is now back in the sump, and the zeo reactor is awaiting the new zeolites that will be arriving tonight via delivery from RCE (Thanks Steve!). When I get home, I'll scrape the rest of the gunk off of the back wall, set up the zeo reactor with the right amount of zeolites, flow and proper dosing to get things started right.

I also ran a few water tests... PO4 is sitting a little higher than before at 0.04 compared to the 0.00 that I had it down to... oh well, still better than the 0.20 that it crept up to. Ca is at 442 on the Hanna... judging from the tests that I've made, I'll call that ~400ppm. Alk/kH is down to a whopping 168ppm/9.99dKh. Getting there... slowly but surely!

As frustrated as I am right now, I'm starting to feel better about this. A few more days of work, and she should A-OK!