so your "cooking" the rock, not baking it then..

Sorry I'd never heard that term before. I'd heard curing, cycling but never cooking. and with so many people "Baking" there rock these days I thought it was the lates thing to do ;)

J

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cooking..baking...same thing to me @ least...sorry if i confused some of you.

well picked up my tank tonight, looks pretty good!!! debating about the sandbed now tho, i dont want to be fighting the coraline all over my faux bed, or permantly gluing my bulkheads in, thats just asking for trouble...and since i'm not really a big fan of the BB look. 'm thinking i might just go with a thin layer of sand and hopefully my flow doesnt blow the sand everywhere...starting the build on my stand tonight or tomorrow so hopefully I'll have it running by the end of the weekend, i'll post some pics later on tonight if i got time.

just an update on the current progress....made my terrible looking stand yesterday, hahaha, oh well... plumbed it all up and filled with a bit of water to test my cannister filters... and sure enough the rena starts spewing water everywhere...looks like it might be a little while longer till i get it all set up... ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh well, i need to make more ro/di water anyways to finish filling it up..and my replacement MH ballest wont be in till next week anyways...

well. i got the rena to not leak...@ least for now...just filled up the tank and got both the cannister filters going...but i'm not really happy with my flow... i figured 2, 300 gph cannister filters would be enough...but i guess not...can anyone recommend a pretty decent small powerhead?


still trying to get my camera 2 upload to my computer, but it seems to be having some problems...i'll post some up as soon as i get it to work.

the littlest zoo media powersweep is ok, alternating flow..or oscillatting flow i should say

can you aim it down @ all??

okay, well heres 2 crappy pics i just snapped with my cell phone,

it has a little plastic diffuser thingy that allows the water to go somewhat down..more like a 45 degree angle or so