The Great Fish Tank Rescue!

[CoraltheClownfish]

Well today I had to rescue the 55 Gallon SW Tank at my school. It was overgrown with cyanobacteria!
It looked horrible and didn't smell any better than it looked.
So since I'm on break and that I have the keys to my school I spent the whole day cleaning and "pimpin" this tank!

This is what it looked like before

The "sand"

The HOB Filter (Hasn't been cleaned in months)

The fish that were rescued
Two damsels and a Coral Beauty Angel

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

More
Emptying the tank

Removing the sand

Old tank gone New 55 now!

Added 30 pounds of Aragonite Sand and 30 or 40 pounds of Reef Rock (not live)

 

[skratchiechan]

nice goodluck with that!

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

Final product as of now only has one 7 pound live rock, and some reef rock and a T-5 light
I will be adding more to this tank as time goes by

 

[belfourisbetter]

It already looks a million times better!

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

I definitely agree there!

 

[HN1]

Great work!

 

[trackfast]

Nice work.

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

Thanks everyone! Went to check on it today and it cleared up pretty nice
I'm still waiting on getting an Actinic Bulb to join the white one
In other news the Coral Beauty is doing great in my 125. She is enjoying having a ton of live rock to graze on

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

All Clear! I forgot my good Nikon so I had to take this with my phone

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

Since this tank is Cycling at the moment, I would like to throw out stock suggestions out here

Ideas so far:
-Small school of Green Chromis (3 of them?)
-Pair of clowns (True Percs preferred)
- Some inverts (Clean Up Crew) I don't want to get corals maybe later on if they take good care of the tank later on
- Dwarf Angel? (The Coral Beauty isn't going back she is too happy now lol)

Anyone have suggestions?

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

Well I had no luck on finding a 48" Actinic Bulb, So I just got another Power-Glo bulb. Hopefully putting that in tomorrow as well as taking pics if I remember lol.

 

[0o.Kelsey.o0]

Hey did you clean it all by yourself?! looks great! Any updates?? what did you end putting in for fish??

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

Me and My mom Cleaned the entire tank. and the tank so far has about 50 pounds of base rock and only a few pounds of live rock. No fish as of yet (but the tank is ready for some!)

 

[Dylan5359]

This looks wonderful! What fish are yo going to add?

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

I'm not 100% sure on what fish to put in yet but I'm thinking of a few chromis, a pair of true percula clowns, and maybe some other reef safe fish as this is going to be a reef community

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

I ordered a dual 3200 gph powerhead for this tank and my 125 at home I also rearranged the rocks pics later

 

[Gti_Leo]

aahh you parted way with the AC, maybe turb it into a refugium to suck out some nitrates, and may i suggest gettign rid of the AC power head. mine took t he life of a turbo snail and almost took my other ones life. i only use it to mix up my PWC now

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

Yeah I did get rid of both the AC and the pwerhead (I ordered a new and also better powerhead) My Friend and I actually set up a 29 gallon tank on the lab table right next to the tank to serve as an experimental refugium. It isn't plumbed or set up yet.

 

[CoraltheClownfish]

This is the most current photo as of now. I know it needs some water and a good cleaning, but this was taken right after the rocks were rearranged. The tank on the far right is going to be an experimental refugium for this tank.