Disney's 75G Tank Journal

skabooya · #1 06-07-2011, 05:37 PM

Im excited for this one. Cant wait.

DisneyCoralReef · #2 06-28-2011, 02:51 PM

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 · #3 06-28-2011, 04:40 PM

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 · #4 07-02-2011, 03:04 PM

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.

fishytime · #5 07-02-2011, 03:56 PM

hey, good to see your almost there Girly.....have you got your rock yet?

dave_C · #6 07-02-2011, 04:02 PM

Sump in full work for the first time

Looking good

:, but do want to point out a couple little issues i see that you may run into in the future.

1) the output of the skimmer is really close to your return pump, not a 100% sure but i would bet you will have micro bubble issues in the display tank from this.

2) i didn't think the drains from the tank should be mounted that way, i almost think they should go in the black cylinder to the left of the filter socks. Here is my reasoning on this, the filter socks looks like they may be hard to take out and clean. From what i can see the drains should go in to the black cylinder, water fills up and than overflows into the socks. This will help in two area's, number one it should make the sump much quieter, number two there will be nothing in the way of pulling out the filter socks for cleaning.

thanks Dave

DisneyCoralReef · #7 07-02-2011, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishytime

hey, good to see your almost there Girly.....have you got your rock yet?

No rocks yet my darling! I have the sand to add in (HOPEFULLY) later this evening assuming my tank has cleared up. I'm in no rush to add it yet, tho I was told to add all the rock at once? instead of adding 20 lbs there, and 15 lbs there and so on. Thoughts?

One of the guys here on the forum has been absolutely amazing in guiding me and helping me set this tank up.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dave@conceptaquatics

...i didn't think the drains from the tank should be mounted that way, i almost think they should go in the black cylinder to the left of the filter socks. Here is my reasoning on this, the filter socks looks like they may be hard to take out and clean. From what i can see the drains should go in to the black cylinder, water fills up and than overflows into the socks. This will help in two area's, number one it should make the sump much quieter, number two there will be nothing in the way of pulling out the filter socks for cleaning.
thanks Dave

Removing the socks for cleaning is actually very easy. There is a great connection, which isn't visible in the picture that allows me to disconnect the PVC that connects to the socks.

fishoholic · #8 07-03-2011, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisneyCoralReef

No rocks yet my darling! I have the sand to add in (HOPEFULLY) later this evening assuming my tank has cleared up. I'm in no rush to add it yet, tho I was told to add all the rock at once? instead of adding 20 lbs there, and 15 lbs there and so on.

Darling hummmm I'm the only one allowed to call him that

When you're first starting a tank it's better to add all the rock at once and have it all cycle at the same time instead of adding a bit at a time and have it cause new cycles as you go along. After the intial cycle is done and the tank has been running for awhile then it's better to slowly add more rock over prolonged periods of time if you want to, that way you adviod spikes in an established system.

The tank looks good, exciting to see water in it