First of all I would like to thank everyone for their advice and tips on this forum, I has proven to be an invaluable resource. Some of you may have browsed over my post a few days ago regarding be killing my tank. I wont go into details here but here is the post.
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98034
Needless to say I couldn't just sit here with an empty tank in my living room so I am starting to rebuild today. I am following everyones advise and have sorted through the vast amount of information on the internet this time, I should have done it that was the first time. Lessons learned I guess.
I want to document this process as much as possible so that someone may learn from the mistakes that I have made and to share this new setup with everyone.
Yesterday I called my LFS and informed him of the situation and advised him that I would be by today and needed a few things and to please add them to his shipment so they would be available. Sure enough, when the LFS opened up he had everything that I needed. The list is as follows:
80LBS of CaribSea Aragonite
40LBS of CaribSea AragAlive Live Sand
1 Case - 150 Gallons of Instant Ocean
1 AquaMaxx RO/DI unit 100GPD
The only thing that we are having trouble locating is the lamps for my hood. The hood has 46.5" VHO bulbs, and we have phone calls into all of his suppliers to locate the space saver bulbs. What we are looking for are X2 10,000K and X2 03 Actinic blubs. My LFS believe it or not is a good guy, unlike most, and has helped me out a lot in the past. I am usually down there every weekend to check out what he has got in for his tanks. He pretty much specializes on only S/W and is reasonable with everything he has. There is another place in town that does S/W but they cater to the people who are willing to spend tons of money for whatever the LFS says they need. I don't really like it there.
I think that the RO/DI is going to make my life much easier, and I want to configure this tank for a reef so lets do it right. Anyway, I'm going to go continue making RO water, so I'll post some pics and keep everyone abreast on the progress. Until later.
PS. the last pic is Ace my GSD who is mad because he has no tank to look at.
Shawn
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98034
Needless to say I couldn't just sit here with an empty tank in my living room so I am starting to rebuild today. I am following everyones advise and have sorted through the vast amount of information on the internet this time, I should have done it that was the first time. Lessons learned I guess.
I want to document this process as much as possible so that someone may learn from the mistakes that I have made and to share this new setup with everyone.
Yesterday I called my LFS and informed him of the situation and advised him that I would be by today and needed a few things and to please add them to his shipment so they would be available. Sure enough, when the LFS opened up he had everything that I needed. The list is as follows:
80LBS of CaribSea Aragonite
40LBS of CaribSea AragAlive Live Sand
1 Case - 150 Gallons of Instant Ocean
1 AquaMaxx RO/DI unit 100GPD
The only thing that we are having trouble locating is the lamps for my hood. The hood has 46.5" VHO bulbs, and we have phone calls into all of his suppliers to locate the space saver bulbs. What we are looking for are X2 10,000K and X2 03 Actinic blubs. My LFS believe it or not is a good guy, unlike most, and has helped me out a lot in the past. I am usually down there every weekend to check out what he has got in for his tanks. He pretty much specializes on only S/W and is reasonable with everything he has. There is another place in town that does S/W but they cater to the people who are willing to spend tons of money for whatever the LFS says they need. I don't really like it there.
I think that the RO/DI is going to make my life much easier, and I want to configure this tank for a reef so lets do it right. Anyway, I'm going to go continue making RO water, so I'll post some pics and keep everyone abreast on the progress. Until later.
PS. the last pic is Ace my GSD who is mad because he has no tank to look at.
Shawn
