Wizzard~Of~Ozz
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Got my tank filled with water, got the sump cleaned out today, Got the plumbing mostly done today (looks like abstract art you'd complain about on someones front yard, might have to touch it up a bit, but it should function as intended.)
SG is just a hair under 1.026 (Refractometer, Used 53ms(1.026) fluid to calibrate it) Want 1.025
PH of just the water is 8.2 (IO salt)
Picked up AP test kits (Saltwater Master & Reef)
Because I'm stubborn, I won't be getting the LR until the end of January/beginning of February. I asked for the 130lbs of rock to be uncured (right off the boat so to speak) rather then getting partially cured rock that just has to be cured again. Of course I had already started mixing the water when I found out about the date. At least the water will be mature.
My tank has so far been the water mixing vessel, next it will be a LR curing vessel. 120Gal is a lot to work with, I don't know how people with 200Gal + cope.
Sorry for any delay in the pictures loading, Fedora 7 & Apache aren't playing well together, or I'm just having hardware issues.
This was my tank before the Val took over and smothered most of the other plants.
This is what it looks like now (the wires, heaters etc. will be moved to the sump later, when the rock is going in, don't want to overflow the sump with displacement, so I've left it dry for now). The tank doesn't have that haze to it, the camera I have mounted looking at it doesn't like the actinic light (only 1, 40w 50/50 bulb on at the moment, no point running the 4x65w bulbs on a tank full of water.)
Still deciding on Substrate, pretty sure I'll be going with Seachem Meridian.
Haven't taken any other real readings because there is little point ATM, the substrate and rock will alter the calcium and most other levels.
I'm certain I'll have questions as time goes on.
SG is just a hair under 1.026 (Refractometer, Used 53ms(1.026) fluid to calibrate it) Want 1.025
PH of just the water is 8.2 (IO salt)
Picked up AP test kits (Saltwater Master & Reef)
Because I'm stubborn, I won't be getting the LR until the end of January/beginning of February. I asked for the 130lbs of rock to be uncured (right off the boat so to speak) rather then getting partially cured rock that just has to be cured again. Of course I had already started mixing the water when I found out about the date. At least the water will be mature.
My tank has so far been the water mixing vessel, next it will be a LR curing vessel. 120Gal is a lot to work with, I don't know how people with 200Gal + cope.
Sorry for any delay in the pictures loading, Fedora 7 & Apache aren't playing well together, or I'm just having hardware issues.
This was my tank before the Val took over and smothered most of the other plants.
This is what it looks like now (the wires, heaters etc. will be moved to the sump later, when the rock is going in, don't want to overflow the sump with displacement, so I've left it dry for now). The tank doesn't have that haze to it, the camera I have mounted looking at it doesn't like the actinic light (only 1, 40w 50/50 bulb on at the moment, no point running the 4x65w bulbs on a tank full of water.)
Still deciding on Substrate, pretty sure I'll be going with Seachem Meridian.
Haven't taken any other real readings because there is little point ATM, the substrate and rock will alter the calcium and most other levels.
I'm certain I'll have questions as time goes on.