Thank you! I was thinking I should post a fts soon. I'll do that soon.
Thank you, it's starting to come along.

Wow Mindy great job a true labor of love! With the x-mas break right now catching up on tank journals and getting excited to resurrecting the bio cube with mucho modifications. Great job and awesome tank and journal!

looks awesome! What did you end up using for sand?

Thank you for your comments. :) The tank survived my being out of town for 6 days even though the top off chamber ran out of water (surprisingly), and the return pump wasn't really pumping anything anymore.

Funny you ask because a week ago I gave in and added about 4 cups of a random coarse mix I had laying around. The coarse mix is about half crushed coral (a smooth, round type), and half Caribsea Super Reef. I added that to the 3/4" or so of Caribsea Special Grade that's in there (which I found too uniform looking).

The rocks have a bunch of bacteria on them, as if I was overdosing a carbon source, but I'm not dosing anything except Sponge Power. The rocks have had this bacteria bloom for probably 6 weeks now, and it's getting annoying. The water hasn't been super clear in a long time, and the filter pads feel slimy when I change them out. I'm not sure what's causing, but hopefully it will cycle out soon. I'll dose some CoraL Snow tonight and see if that helps.

A few FTS from just now.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...026%202015.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...202015%202.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...202015%204.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...202015%203.jpg

Looks good, but don't let Brad see those frag plugs.

Haha, those aren't glued down. I remove the plugs when I glue them down. My pics aren't very good though, I've never been good at FTS, pics always look washed out.

As do all serious reefers...

Sheesh.

In time, young Jedi, you will learn :)