My 175G bowfront

[WarDog]

Looks like a great start to me, keep us posted!

[Bblinks]

Welcome back. That's a great size tank to start with. I am just not a huge fan of that cpr overflow, I woke up to cpr raining saltwater all over my face and my bed. It was definitely not a good wet dream. Just make sure you have a lifter pump to start the siphon. Looking forward for more updates!

[rsisvixen]

Yes I got the lifter pump with the CPR, I also got the hubby to drill a small hole in the return pipe just at the water lvl so I break the back siphon in case of a power out.

[mohammadali]

get a water detector from ebay or the home depot

[Dearth]

I feel for your frustrations as I think we all can relate in some way.

Keep moving forward and looking forward to your tank build never be afraid to ask questions even if you think it's stupid the only stupid questions are the ones that are not asked.

[rsisvixen]

Sand has settled.
Got myself a second heater while I wait for the first to be replaced-guess it pays to have a backup
Let the cycling begin
Already noticed brown spots on some of my rocks, assume its some form of algae from the real reef rock pieces.

On a side note my curse has now moved to the house's plumbing and I have 3 leaks that decided to happen simultaneously in the ceiling.
What a way to end 2014.

[rsisvixen]

Well update, the worst of the diatoms have been taken care of by the ceriths, just a bit left on the glass.
Ceriths have been laying eggs so I'm assuming between the baby ceriths and the copepods my glass should be clean in a week-they seem to be eating roughly 2 square inches a day.
Added a red grape macro algae and a Coral Banded shrimp ( not the easiest to get a pic of as he hides during the day ) Just moulted last night as well.
Also have a few blue leg hermits, hard to keep track of them-they seem to change shells everyday ( must be females )
Got my first batch of fish in QT, 5 vanderbuilt chromis, although depressingly lost 4 overnight the first night-not sure why as all my parameters are perfect, did a proper acclimatisation and they were all fine just before lights out. So I have no idea what happened. Last one is fat, eats like a pig and swims about just fine. My theory is either there was something already troubling those 4 and the change to a new place was enough to kill them or the big one chased the others till they died during the night. ( Probably the most fish I've ever lost overnight in all my years of fish keeping)