265 - 300 gallon build

[bullit67]

So I last left off with the plumbing finished. Now the fun starts we added 160lbs of live sand then to help keep the sand from getting stirred up we cut up the sand bags and layed them on the sand then we put a bowl on the sand to catch the water. We started by pumping the water back from the 44 gallon brute bins it was a slow process as we decided to do a fresh water dip on all the rock to get rid of any nasty critters in the rock we got a hand full of crabs and some bristle worms but no mantis like we thought.







As you can see the plastic sand bags realy helped keep the water clear not completely but it sure helped