UPDATE - May 7, 2013 - 53 days since planted - FILLING THE TANK!
That's right! Tank has now been filled! To start with, I started filling it and while it was filling up, I was assembling the clear tubing on the 106 and lily pipes. Brian, you were right!! Took me like an hour to put both tubes over the aqua stops of the 106. But I got it! Much easier on the pipes, though. I got it filled up and it was pearling...
and I started to do the CO2. Well GLA never included any instructions for their newfangled glass CO2 bubble counter, so I just used an old plastic AquaTek one until they email me back with instructions for the thing lol. So I turned on the CO2, which was turned on all the way, and then I heard the bubble counter hissing like a pot on the stove and then it practically blew up and exploded the bubble counter liquid all over the place...
So I cleaned that up and tried again on a
lower setting, so it is working well now lol. So here are some pics.
Filling...
Pearling....
FULL!
I also noticed that vortex from the lily pipes Brian pointed out somewhere lol...Looks pretty cool haha.
I also made a really crappy time lapse of me filling the tank (well, I made my cousin do it
) and It was my first time using that app so its really bad
SO, thanks all for following this!!
EDIT: Hold on i am fixing the links as you read this.. lol