Fellows 70 Gallon Tank Journal

[Fellow]

Starting this Journal just to share my progress.

I got thrown unwilling into reefing when we bought our house last year with an 90 gallon in wall system.

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It was poorly constructed and maintained. When i first tested the tank water Nitrates were over 100 and Phosphate was around 4. I lost a lot of live stock the first few months, hair algae was out of control and I had no idea what I had gotten myself into.

Over the next year I read, read and read some more. I solved all of my water quality issues (for the time being) and got totally hooked on keeping a box full of salt water.

So i decided to start from scratch and do it right.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/FellowPhoto/IMG_0019.jpg


Below some random pictures of setting my new tank up from September until present.

New system thanks to Marine Aquaria.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/FellowPhoto/IMG_0711.jpg


Everything transferred over to new but the water is still cloudy.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/FellowPhoto/IMG_0002.jpg

Random pictures from September start up till present

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i'll keep it updated as i go.

Future Changes:

- Different 6 bulb T5 combo I would like a cooler (bluer) Daytime light setup.

- Get rid of most of the softies (except for the acans) as I would like to do a monti dominate reef.

-Clean up the rats nest of cables and mount my electronics.

- Find a silent alternative to my MP40

Thanks for Looking!

[Joe Reefer]

Tank looks great.

I have all the KZ bulbs instock right now and a couple really nice monti's. :wink:

[Madreefer]

Looks nice. As for your noisey MP40 there is a thread on here that may help in silencing it. If it's the dry side. Thats if your brave enough to try it. I'm going to once warranty runs out on mine.

[Fellow]

Found about 20 baby red banded turbos in my tank this weekend.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/FellowPhoto/IMG_0089.jpg