New Wife, New Life, and The tank I've always wanted! - Part 1

[Siderjan]

This weekend has been a busy one. Thursday I picked up my new return pump and plumbing for it.

New pump;


Here's the plumbing finished. (friday night)




I bought a new Maxi-Jet 1200 to add more flow.


I needed to cover my overflow with something to keep the live stock in the tank so I took a piece of pet proof screen from work and fastened it in place with a wire tie.


Refuguim/Sump is full of water and getting ready to put live rock, cheato, and heaters in it.


Say goodbye to the old tank. Saturday it is getting drained & moved.


Here's my wife, Kim, helping me wash the substrate. Smile Honey!!



She did a good job cleaning it.


Starting the move. I forgot to make a stand for my skimmer so I hung it using string.




Here's a pic of the mess Kim has been begging me to clean up, and the last picture of the old tank.


While taking the LR out, I came across 4 new majanos anemones. Grrr!




I was told there was 50 lbs of LR with the old setup, but there was 41 lbs. I put half a pound in the refugium. I took 7 snails, 3 blue legged hermit crabs, my urchin, hawkfish & maroon clown to the babysitter for him to watch til my tank's temperature stablizes.

The water transfer begins.


Half full....or half empty. Not sure which. Half done sounds good.


Time to put the rock back in and Aquascape it.



Return pump is running and adjusting the flows.



Finished except for adding livestock back in.


Here's a short video of my Aquascaping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFML6inUoy8