dericcanderson
In Memoriam
Ok they say the 3rd time is the charm!!!!!!!!! This time i will not respond to any rude or just plain negative post. I will update about my 250 gallon tank and my 250 gallon tank only. I am gonna add lots of pics here today to show where i started when i got the tank til now. For anyone who was here when i first started the tank they would know all the info but if you didnt hear about it well here we go. About two months ago I was looking on CL and i found a 250 Gallon fish tank a woman was trying to get rid of. She said it was too big and she couldnt move it. I bought it for $200!!!!!!!!! I was stunned she gave me a knockout deal. I then had a 100 gallon tank and four others (BUT I WILL SKIP THAT DONT WANT TO START ANYMORE PROBLEMS!!!!!!) it took me and 3 other friends to get the tank in my backroom/office at home. Over the course of these two months I had been changing and adding things with this tank. When i recieved the tank it was plain jane lol. A oak color that i hated. I made plans to paint the tank black and add other things such as skimmer ....etc. The person who had this tank had to be confused building it LOl. Its a custom built tank but it was drilled for two big overflows. well i dont know what happened but the person no longer wanted to use the overflows and then just sealed them off at the top =( Then as i got home i began to notice the stand was just plain weird. I had plans for a 55 gallon sump but due to how small the doors are i couldnt fit one under there. I was hot. at first i just put a 10 gallon underneath it was easy to move around and setup my plumbing but then i said the heck with this and got a 20g long. Im still looking for a 40 long but until then this 20 will have to do. Since all this i have been slowly adding DIY Live rock and adding fish. I cycled my tank in a week due to the fact i sued the 100 gallons of water from my old tanka nd added a new 150 gallons to the tank. As of now i have 8 fish and about 9 corals/frags. I added clowns first and waited two weeks before i added anything else. I then bought the yellow tang and blue hippo the same day and the next day i got a purple goby. I have a sand starfish and a blue fiji starfish. I also have a lunar wrasse a Naso tang with streamers and a blue jaw trigger fish. I admit i got kinda fish happy once my water cycled but i did pretty good maintaing the levels. Nitites went up a tad bit after adding the naso but i didnt panic. I added a little prime not alot but just a little and let the tank relax for a week everything went back to normal. since i have done a 15 gallon water change and water levels are still perfect. I had a metal halide pendant that i was using for a short bit of time but i sold it and bought other things for my tank. i coukdnt just use the one pendant i am gonnna save up for a fixture that will cover the whole tank.. Right now I have 4 t5 bulbs going and 2 power compacts I am running a mixture of actinics 10,000ks and 18,000ks. Everything is sprouting and doing good except for my flowerpot coral which has been stressed since the move from my other tank. I will keep everyone posted if you have any questions and arent rude i will respond timely and to my best of knowledge. oh and btw i have tons of snails and small blue leg herits to keep ank clean aside from sand being sturred up from time to time tank is staying really clean. =)
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