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BiGGiePauls33
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Yes, bare bottom again
BiGGiePauls33 Dream Build | Assembling the System
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Mike Lemming
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I had a temporary tank setup for like 6 months that was bare bottom and it was great, but I can't get over how nice a clean sandbed looks!
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BiGGiePauls33
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Don't get me wrong, sandbed do look nice and I even almost ordered 160lbs of sand the other day, but I want high flow for mainly sticks
Mike Lemming
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I get it..I'm sure I'll be there eventually!
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BiGGiePauls33
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I made roughly 75 gallons of new saltwater yesterday and pumped into the day, debating whether I start bringing some of the old tank water in today or not. Waiting on some diamond cutoff discs from Amazon to try and cut under encrusted corals and utilize those rocks as a base for the Australian rock.
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BiGGiePauls33
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So not looking forward to setting all the electronic stuff up tbh.
TPhan
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This tank looks amazing! This is the exact size im hoping to upgrade to someday but the one i want is the ext 210.
Edward
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As someone who has been putting this off for months I get it haha. No judgement here!
it is doable, I tried adjusting flow patterns and ended up getting most of the sand to stay covering the bottom. My diamond goby and tiger conch do a good job of redistributing the sand over bare areas
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BiGGiePauls33
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Made the call last night at midnight, heater were no longer cutting it in the temp garage pond, down to 71.7 fish and some remaining corals seemed to love the transition to the new tank, now I can really take my time aquascaping in the coming weeks.
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BiGGiePauls33
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Cpage101
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lots of losses
Reefried
In need of Reefhab
I know he lost some coral. Hopefully the fish are ok.lots of losses
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BiGGiePauls33
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All fish are loving the added swimming room except for a blue/green chromie (sp?) Saw it the next day in the almost frozen temp tank. My kids were cathing the fish and inverts. My 19 year old did find the lone peppermint, on the floor where we put the rock and noticed it, not sure if it became the triggers snack or not.
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BiGGiePauls33
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Copied from the GHL FB group so I didn't have to type this out again. Picked up a horizontal cabinet from Ikea with swing up glass door. Long way to go with setting up and configuring equipment, wire and cord management but I did get the GHL equipment cabinet hung this afternoon. I may get another and mount it vertically for the Geo 8-18 CaRX. The best part is I can probably now skip the Kamoer FX-Stp and just use one of the Maxi heads for the calcium reactor and the other for pulling top off from my garage. Little by slow, I'll have this reef rocking again. Have roughly 60 pounds of Australian live rock goin in as well.
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BiGGiePauls33
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No real update here, just trying to clean up wires and get everything happy. Did a 50 gallon water change this past week and will do another this upcoming week. CaRX has to be hooked up along with ATO stuff, maxi doser and kh director. Trying to come up with a solution for the 1/2" returns to attach the 3/4" eductors to really turn up the flow. I may go buy a 3D printer this weekend and see if I can print something for that. One can readily buy a 3/4" to 1/2" loc line adaptor but not in reverse, so we shall see.
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BiGGiePauls33
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Nothing good happens fast in this hobby, right? Slowest build of my life...
Lots of wire management still, aqua scaping needs to be done, CaRX, KHD, Maxi doser for ATO, soffit for lighting etc, the list goes on and on as usual.
Lots of wire management still, aqua scaping needs to be done, CaRX, KHD, Maxi doser for ATO, soffit for lighting etc, the list goes on and on as usual.
FishieBusiness
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Looking sweet Paul
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BiGGiePauls33
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Pulled the sump last night and moved it externally, so much better to be able to do anything with it not under the stand. My daughter's leaving early in the morning for a trip so hoping I can bang out the remainder of things when she leaves.
