Bignoses' 90G sps reef

[bignose]

Originally Posted by kien

wow, that looks so neat and tidy, love it :-)

Thanks kien I'm really happy it turned out that way. It looks good for not knowing what I was doing.

I raised the salinity to 1.025 and the temperature to 79F. Next I will rinse and add sand. I'm going with 40 pounds of sugar sand. The last time I used 40pnds sugar and 20 pounds crushed argonite which was too much.

[bignose]

It was 3 weeks ago but here is a picture of me and my gf adding sand.


2 weeks ago I added about 40 pnds of base LR, I put half of it in my sump. Last week I added 10 hermit crabs and 8 narcissus snails.

Yesterday I put in my yellow tang. Here is a picture I took today.


I still have around 60 pnds of LR to go in yet but it's going in when I transfer my coral.

[cuz]

nice work!! not gonna paint the back of your tank?

[rstar]

Looking great! +1 to the "Plans for the back of the tank". I WISH my plumbing was that neat and tidy!

[bignose]

Originally Posted by cuz

nice work!! not gonna paint the back of your tank?

I'm letting coraline algae paint the back for me.

Originally Posted by rstar

Looking great! +1 to the "Plans for the back of the tank". I WISH my plumbing was that neat and tidy!

Thanks rstar the plumbing turned out very nice but I'm still trying to figure out why my return pump sounds so loud. I hear a constant humming through the wall.

[BlueAbyss]

Acoustical batting would help with that noise through the wall.

[rstar]

Originally Posted by bignose

Thanks rstar the plumbing turned out very nice but I'm still trying to figure out why my return pump sounds so loud. I hear a constant humming through the wall.

I know it seems simple, but is the pump sitting directly on the sump glass? i put a sheet of foam insulation under my sump, then the rubber legs on the pump and you can hardly hear it anymore.

[bignose]

I have a piece of pvc pipe holding the pump up right now. Would a piece of styrofoam leach any chemicals into the water?