So, I am starting over! It has been about four years since I tore my last tank down.
The first thing I did was resurrect the live/dead rock by doing an acid bath..
2 hours in 10% muriatic acid from HD. (all safety precautions taken)
The Treatment/Torture process:
Talk about frothing!
Then I did a bleach bath after making sure all of the acid was gone, R/O water, dry, R/O water..rinse and repeat.
Then I have been cycling the rocks in a Rubbermaid ever since with weekly partial water changes and Rowaphos.
This time it will be a 24x24x20 cube-ish tank from Concepts and a Marineland stand to support it. The tank will be in the corner and viewed mostly from the couch..so I made some adjustments to orientation on the stand. This way you don't see the plumbing all the time.
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More to come..