Well, I've been sitting on a frag tank that I bought from my friend @seand for too long and I've finally started to set it up. It's replacing one of the to 55g tanks I have in the basement. The 55 was originally a habitat for my snowflake eel but since he's no longer with us, I started using it as a catch-all. Eventually I upgraded a few light and started keeping frags in it and we all know that a 55g is not ideal for keeping SPS frags. So I bought some plumbing parts and went to work. I bought the tank and the stand so there's nothing I can post about producing sawdust.
Here's the starting point.
At this point I had everything (corals, live rock, fish, inverts) all in buckets and old tanks. While my friend and I were working on the basic plumbing, this little bugger climbed up some live rock and managed to escape (he's fine now).
Yesterday I met my goal of getting the tank itself set up and all of the live stuff transferred. I used almost all of the water I could from the 55g (40 gallons) and slowly added 15g of new freshly made saltwater. I didn't want to shock anything so I did this 5g at a time with 6 hours of separation.
There's still a lot to be done but the move has been made and everything is starting to open up. My first goal is to add more saltwater and get the sump running. I'm going to use the 55g that I've taken offline as a sump and I'll update as that progresses. Right now everything's pretty basic. Frag tank, lights, small sump and I'm shopping for a used skimmer.
Here's the starting point.
At this point I had everything (corals, live rock, fish, inverts) all in buckets and old tanks. While my friend and I were working on the basic plumbing, this little bugger climbed up some live rock and managed to escape (he's fine now).
Yesterday I met my goal of getting the tank itself set up and all of the live stuff transferred. I used almost all of the water I could from the 55g (40 gallons) and slowly added 15g of new freshly made saltwater. I didn't want to shock anything so I did this 5g at a time with 6 hours of separation.
There's still a lot to be done but the move has been made and everything is starting to open up. My first goal is to add more saltwater and get the sump running. I'm going to use the 55g that I've taken offline as a sump and I'll update as that progresses. Right now everything's pretty basic. Frag tank, lights, small sump and I'm shopping for a used skimmer.
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