New 90 gallon: the start
I finally got my act together and uploaded some photos of the tank as it has come together.
It started as a free 90 gallon AGA tank, with stand and canopy, won in the raffle at the WAMAS Reef Symposium.
After a lot of money and time, it's now a tank full of ammonia, nitrite and sand.
Note the stand has already been painted brown to match our earth-tony room.
My wife picked a nice shade of blue for the back:
The freshwater test run went fine:
So I put in ASW, playsand and some dead live rock ("reef bones"), and ran a powerhead and quickfilter:
Now it's sitting with some rotting bits of crab, innoculated with live sand from the 20 gallon.
The current specs are:
90 gallon reef-ready tank with AGAs version of a durso
20 long sump, now in its second redesign
mag 9.5 return pump, going to 3/4" SeaSwirl
[there's also a Euroreef CS 6-2 skimmer that will get added after the cycle]
Next series: modding the canopy for the halides.
I finally got my act together and uploaded some photos of the tank as it has come together.
It started as a free 90 gallon AGA tank, with stand and canopy, won in the raffle at the WAMAS Reef Symposium.
After a lot of money and time, it's now a tank full of ammonia, nitrite and sand.
Note the stand has already been painted brown to match our earth-tony room.
My wife picked a nice shade of blue for the back:
The freshwater test run went fine:
So I put in ASW, playsand and some dead live rock ("reef bones"), and ran a powerhead and quickfilter:
Now it's sitting with some rotting bits of crab, innoculated with live sand from the 20 gallon.
The current specs are:
90 gallon reef-ready tank with AGAs version of a durso
20 long sump, now in its second redesign
mag 9.5 return pump, going to 3/4" SeaSwirl
[there's also a Euroreef CS 6-2 skimmer that will get added after the cycle]
Next series: modding the canopy for the halides.