Disney's 75G Tank Journal

[Leah]

Congrats on becoming a reefer Girly!

Sucks to get only so far when it comes to us Girly's and plumbing.
Hopefully you will get it up and running soon.

[DisneyCoralReef]

Nice to see someone who totally understands where I'm coming from We're very lucky to have some great local reefers tho, who've taken the time to give me some advice and helped with it all.

[Steve'o]

can't wait to see more
looking good
Steve'o

[skabooya]

Im excited for this one. Cant wait.

[DisneyCoralReef]

Thanks to one of the many amazing forum members, the plumbing is now finished on the tank and is ready to accept water! I was having some troubles with the RO unit over the weekend and thought I would have to call someone in again, but ended up being able to get it working. I left it on, scared the crap out of myself this morning after forgetting I had it left turned on over night and voila!

Sorry for the quality of the photo. It was taken seconds after I got out of bed from my cell. Better photos to come later.


I have someone going in later this afternoon to turn it on again for me, so that by the time I get home it should be 1/2-3/4 full. Hoping to have enough in there by tomorrow morning to add the salt, start up the power heads, get the skimmer going(still need to figure out how to make it work) and start adding live rock!

[DisneyCoralReef]

Hey thank you, appreciate the compliment. I'm learning regardless how much reading you do, you never feel ready to start the big steps of putting the actual tank together. If it weren't for the help of a couple specific people, I wouldn't have made it to where I am today.

You make a good point to make sure everything is running before adding any salt. Keeping fingers crossed!

[DisneyCoralReef]

Here we are. Turned everything on in the tank for the first time yesterday morning July 1st! let it run to make sure we didn't have any leaks, and now the salt has been added and waiting for it to clear up. These photos are from last night, so the tank is a bit clearer now than it was.

When the tank water was turned and accepting water for the first time, when we started filling






Tank finally full enough to overflow into the corner of the tank, and into the sump




Sump in full work for the first time




Initial salt mixing


15 mins later





I no longer have mini dunes of sand, it's just cloudy now.