Today is a busy day. Working on the 125g build. Mostly filled with water to just below weirs. Need 1 pc of plumbing added today then can test. All equipment in and being tested except skimmer. So am happy. won't get electrical done this weekend so will have a snarly mess of cords and cables and boxes.
Picking up my dau's RS e170 (45g) tank today. Setting it up for a coral qt. Not starting a coral qt thread <g>. 2 is enough. Can update it here in one of these threads. Will use old tank water and all rock with coral from the display refugium and prob. some sand. Make it look like a regular tank but corals only. Mainly because I have colts and xenia in the refugium and don't want to just toss them. Will have a ton of snails as there are tons of baby trochus in that tank... Rest of sand and rock with macro algae go to the sump of the new build.
Hex 20 gal, fish qt will come down along with the 10 gal that I tried as a coral qt (didn't work well). Extra powerheads will go into the sump along with the lights. I have the hex lights mounted on a pc of egg crate cut to fit the hex. Thinking of using double stick tape or velcro to stick under stand for lighting.
So going to be fun monkeying around with all these tanks.
Tank update as we near month 14. Will have to get some more pics
The 4 new anthias doing well. 1 purple queen still stays in hiding most of the time, coming out to eat, esp. baby brine shrimp. All the fish go nuts.
Not sure how the coco worm is doing. Not coming out much. Moved it again thinking it wasn't enough flow. Need to go do some more research. Everything else is pretty much the same. Lots of new micromussa babies, the large polyps spreading--too much. Hubbies favorite. Not mine.
Will update corals next post
Picking up my dau's RS e170 (45g) tank today. Setting it up for a coral qt. Not starting a coral qt thread <g>. 2 is enough. Can update it here in one of these threads. Will use old tank water and all rock with coral from the display refugium and prob. some sand. Make it look like a regular tank but corals only. Mainly because I have colts and xenia in the refugium and don't want to just toss them. Will have a ton of snails as there are tons of baby trochus in that tank... Rest of sand and rock with macro algae go to the sump of the new build.
Hex 20 gal, fish qt will come down along with the 10 gal that I tried as a coral qt (didn't work well). Extra powerheads will go into the sump along with the lights. I have the hex lights mounted on a pc of egg crate cut to fit the hex. Thinking of using double stick tape or velcro to stick under stand for lighting.
So going to be fun monkeying around with all these tanks.
Tank update as we near month 14. Will have to get some more pics
The 4 new anthias doing well. 1 purple queen still stays in hiding most of the time, coming out to eat, esp. baby brine shrimp. All the fish go nuts.
Not sure how the coco worm is doing. Not coming out much. Moved it again thinking it wasn't enough flow. Need to go do some more research. Everything else is pretty much the same. Lots of new micromussa babies, the large polyps spreading--too much. Hubbies favorite. Not mine.
Will update corals next post