SpSChief85
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Ok so I tore down my 125 sold off the livestock and coral to local refers and decided to totally start over with a tank I would be happy with not only aesthetically but knowing I restarted clean with the knowledge I've gained through my years as reef keeping. This Saturday I'll be picking up the cube, I have a vertex omega 130, maxspect gyre 150, biotek biocube 20x20x16 sump, and a RKL I'll later replace with a apex system. I had planned on buying all new rock but have decided I'm going to use the Marco out of what I have and chisel my "dreamscape" I'll be using seaklear to leech all phosphate from rock that died after the tear down. I was going to just leech the phosphate in a tote but have bought a few 10 micron filter socks and will just be doing a slow drip solution of the seaklear and water into the 10 micron filter sock, once phosphate are undetectable for a week after stopping the lanthium chloride treatment I'll then start stocking with a tester... I'll also be using microbe lift nite out and special blend on startup to Jumpstart the biological filtration. If anyone can help me figure out why I can't load pictures onto rc from my phone I would appreciate it. More to come any suggestions or tips appreciated, I think I left out I'll be going with a sandbed this time as the 125 was bb. I'm thinking 3 to 4 inches.
I used to have a fairly large, in wall system. Took way too much of my time for maintenance, it was loud, power hungry (3x 400w MH + 8 54w Actinics will have a noticeable impact on your electric bill!)... Had grape calurpa go sexual and contaminate everything. Tore it down years ago.
