Just excited w/no one to talk to

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So I am at work, will be leaving in about 45 min. and am expecting a shipment of 90lbs of live rock today and there is no one here to tell how fired up I am.

So I guess I am just looking for a little bit of enthusiasm.

I currently have a little 37g FOW(small amts. of)LR. For the past 9 mos. I have been planning, saving, and building my new tank. So I now have a 65g breeder (36x24x18) w/ overflow on a custom built stand w/matching custom built canopy w/ a 250w mh and 2 36" vho actinics, and 29g sump w/all the trimmin's. Just filled it with water 2 days ago, and the live rock should be on the porch when I get home. :thm:

Another point that you all may find interesting is that this ENTIRE project has been financed using my own blood. That's right folks, I have been donating plasma for 9 months saving up money for this tank. I never donated plasma before this and have not used any plasma money for anything other than this tank. So you could say that I am excited, or maybe crazy. I say dedicated. And maybe a little crazy.

So, anyway, I just want somebody to be excited with me while I wait out these last 35min at work alone.
 
AWESOME!!!!!! :bday: :bday:

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

get some pics when you get it all in.
 
holy moly

That is totally hardcore. I just financed my tank's start-up costs with credit cards and denial.
 
lol, that's what I do to cpyne! Postion your rock in the tank,"I hope you have a sand bed and not crused coral!". Then keep your ammoina below 1ppm and you'll be golden. That way all the littel crittes that survived shipping won't get nuked by the ammonia.
hth
chris
 
Keeping ammonia below 1ppm is not an easy task when your tank is cycling, IMO let the tank take its path, there is no point interupting the cycle with water changes etc in the first week. Most of the Fauna will live and what ever die off you have will most likely return after the cycle with good water conditions.
 
that sounds awesome. I really want to get a marine tank set up, but I will have to wait until I move again...::sigh::
 
Thanks for all the comments. I will get pictures up as soon as possible. After I got all of the rock in there, I just stared at it for hours, even though it was still pretty cloudy from stirring up the sand. It is exactly what I wanted (the tank and rock and everything else) and it was worth the wait.

Oh, and no crushed coral, I managed to locate a member of my local aquarium society that still had 2 50lb bags of southdown laying around and he sold them to me for $20. SCORE!

Now its time to sit back, relax, break out the test kits, and see what crawls out of my rock. :clap:
 
lol, Mysis it's not that hard. Just do a large water change in the am and another in the pm when you get home. Just make sure it goes to like .5 ppm and when you get home test your water again. I've found that unless you have some major critters rotting on your live rock it usually takes several hours for the ammonia levels to go back up.
hth
 
what is the point though?

You are stoppin minimal die off, why not let the tank run it's course of cycle?

What ever does die off will come back, all you trying to save is pods and worms etc. I can tell you if you let the tank run it's course you will have no problem, and when it has finished cycles it will take 2 weeks or so for all the microfauna to return.
 
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