60 shallow reef
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My wife wants the garage back 
At the moment there's a 120, 60 frag, 30im nuvo, 20L w the rock cycling, 40b that has baffles now, multiple 10s sitting around, a 2x250 fixture and a 4 bulb t5 fixture that are in different stages of gutting and reassembling, lots of boxes with equipment, a few buckets of sand and another couple of buckets with more rock that I'll cycle once the 60 is setup that will go in the nuvo tank. Have been working on the stands for the 60 L and nuvo for a few weeks now.
I've been testing to see where the rock is at cycling wise and its thru the nitrate and on the backside of the nitrites, just started phosphate which is when this crept in. Gonna wait it out a little longer before i do anything.
Found a few apaistea (spelling?) yesterday that I quickly smothered in kalk. Boo!
At the moment there's a 120, 60 frag, 30im nuvo, 20L w the rock cycling, 40b that has baffles now, multiple 10s sitting around, a 2x250 fixture and a 4 bulb t5 fixture that are in different stages of gutting and reassembling, lots of boxes with equipment, a few buckets of sand and another couple of buckets with more rock that I'll cycle once the 60 is setup that will go in the nuvo tank. Have been working on the stands for the 60 L and nuvo for a few weeks now.
I've been testing to see where the rock is at cycling wise and its thru the nitrate and on the backside of the nitrites, just started phosphate which is when this crept in. Gonna wait it out a little longer before i do anything.
Found a few apaistea (spelling?) yesterday that I quickly smothered in kalk. Boo!
Multi Tank Syndrome: 60F, 3x20L, 30L, 20H, 40B, 10
Finally made progress on the stand, contacted the manufacturer of the tank and needed to add extra bracing.
Have two sides skinned with plywood, doors cut, and one side that's drying as I had to add the trim to it first.
The hardest part so far is making the stand so that the top, sides, and front all come apart and can reassemble at the house.
The plywood at the front is for the doors, going to have two front and one side doors.
Finally made progress on the stand, contacted the manufacturer of the tank and needed to add extra bracing.
Have two sides skinned with plywood, doors cut, and one side that's drying as I had to add the trim to it first.
The hardest part so far is making the stand so that the top, sides, and front all come apart and can reassemble at the house.
The plywood at the front is for the doors, going to have two front and one side doors.
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Questions:
Here's my timeline I'm thinking of, however I don't want to go too fast so please let me know if this is too much at once.
I have rock cycling now with macros. I'm going to have the stand finished next week and hoping for water in tank by Friday next. At that time I'll just be transferring the rock from a. 20L to the 60 and moving the macros to a refugium. I'll also be adding large amounts of bactiv 8. The rock was "live" when I got it but has had a few small mini cycles this past week.
I'm making a trip mid July to Denver to pickup a cuc, about 20 zoa frags, a rainbow nem, and close to 30 monti frags. These will all go onto frag racks in the tank. Only fish I will add will b clownfish and a wrasse.
Will be getting more zoas and sps later this summer.
Is this moving too fast for a bare bottom tank or should I postpone the trip to later this summer and try to spread out the coral buys?
Here's my timeline I'm thinking of, however I don't want to go too fast so please let me know if this is too much at once.
I have rock cycling now with macros. I'm going to have the stand finished next week and hoping for water in tank by Friday next. At that time I'll just be transferring the rock from a. 20L to the 60 and moving the macros to a refugium. I'll also be adding large amounts of bactiv 8. The rock was "live" when I got it but has had a few small mini cycles this past week.
I'm making a trip mid July to Denver to pickup a cuc, about 20 zoa frags, a rainbow nem, and close to 30 monti frags. These will all go onto frag racks in the tank. Only fish I will add will b clownfish and a wrasse.
Will be getting more zoas and sps later this summer.
Is this moving too fast for a bare bottom tank or should I postpone the trip to later this summer and try to spread out the coral buys?
Multi Tank Syndrome: 60F, 3x20L, 30L, 20H, 40B, 10
Wife wants her garage space back:
Tanks that are currently waiting to be setup:
120, 20H, 2x10, 30 nuvo, 60 frag, 40B sump, 20L refugium (currently cycling rock).
In the background: 4 bulb t5 fixture; 2x250 metal halide fixture; 2 bulb PC fixture; and random garage stuff.
Wife wants her garage space back:
Tanks that are currently waiting to be setup:
120, 20H, 2x10, 30 nuvo, 60 frag, 40B sump, 20L refugium (currently cycling rock).
In the background: 4 bulb t5 fixture; 2x250 metal halide fixture; 2 bulb PC fixture; and random garage stuff.
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Multi Tank Syndrome: 60F, 3x20L, 30L, 20H, 40B, 10
Today's progress:
Ended up being a lot bigger project than I thought. Definitely overbuilt this one but it's coming along well now
All I have left now is to sand some more, paint the inside white, and the exciting part will be finishing the outside. Will post pics on the finish as it involves a blowtorch.
Today's progress:
Ended up being a lot bigger project than I thought. Definitely overbuilt this one but it's coming along well now
All I have left now is to sand some more, paint the inside white, and the exciting part will be finishing the outside. Will post pics on the finish as it involves a blowtorch.
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Yea, he's about 15 miles outside of town. Has every tool imaginable, the picture shows half of it, just finished making the paint studio to the right of the pic and going to be installing a vent system for it next week. Been working out there 3 days a week making furniture for a table and chair company we started a few months back.
Beefing up floor support:
So after completing the stand and it weighing in at almost 100lbs, adding a 40b refugium, and the 60 gallons dt thinking that's close to 1K lbs now and knowing that will sit in 3 beams parallel to tank, thinking of adding a single post under where the tank would sit. Unfortunately the floor underneath sits ontop of a crawl space. Any one know how to sister joists together?
So after completing the stand and it weighing in at almost 100lbs, adding a 40b refugium, and the 60 gallons dt thinking that's close to 1K lbs now and knowing that will sit in 3 beams parallel to tank, thinking of adding a single post under where the tank would sit. Unfortunately the floor underneath sits ontop of a crawl space. Any one know how to sister joists together?