Useful_Idiot
Artificially Intelligent
Last time it was the piece of paper that said "How do you keep an Idiot busy for hours? flip over" and the other side said "How do you keep an Idiot busy for...."
Never mind I'm past that now.
I wanted a cube tank for the right aquascaping. I was gonna go 30x30. But I didn't wanna give up the 36'' I was used to on my 40 breeder. Ashley after seeing me buy several things twice because I didn't get exactly what I wanted the first time, she decided for me this was my last aquarium. So I went with the Marineland Deep Dimensions 150, not too small not too big.
So I bought the tank in July, filled the tank almost to the overflow and added a chromis and some liverock to get things going. Switched some water between the 2 tanks a couple times a week. This was a motivator for a bucketless water change setup.
Researched everything that would fit in the stand, which wasn't anything good and came to the conclusion I was gonna need a basement sump. Decided to use my old 75 gallon as a sump instead of keeping my 55 sump due to it restricting my skimmer choices.
Painted the basement floor and walls. Built a floor joist support, sump stand and ran a dedicated electrical circuit.
The dog supervised
After reading Swannys thread I wanted to up my carpentry skills and added the 1" trim around the doors. Kinda regret constantly skipping woodshop for hackysak and other recreational activities.
I went with Waterblaster 10000 return pump. Teed off for carbon reactor, a 29 gallon mantis tank and another line to divert back to the sump. And of course a (future) line to the washsink for water changes. I used both drains in the overflow for a Herbie which is dead silent. I haven't measured but I think I'm in the 3-5 times turnover rate with a lot of the flow diverted. Still need to neaten up and cut the right acrylic covers.
I got the reef octopus sro2000. Coming from a aquac remora what this pulls smells like death. I'm expecting either much better results or starving coral. I'll post more when I upload some photos.
Never mind I'm past that now.
I wanted a cube tank for the right aquascaping. I was gonna go 30x30. But I didn't wanna give up the 36'' I was used to on my 40 breeder. Ashley after seeing me buy several things twice because I didn't get exactly what I wanted the first time, she decided for me this was my last aquarium. So I went with the Marineland Deep Dimensions 150, not too small not too big.
So I bought the tank in July, filled the tank almost to the overflow and added a chromis and some liverock to get things going. Switched some water between the 2 tanks a couple times a week. This was a motivator for a bucketless water change setup.
Researched everything that would fit in the stand, which wasn't anything good and came to the conclusion I was gonna need a basement sump. Decided to use my old 75 gallon as a sump instead of keeping my 55 sump due to it restricting my skimmer choices.
Painted the basement floor and walls. Built a floor joist support, sump stand and ran a dedicated electrical circuit.
The dog supervised
After reading Swannys thread I wanted to up my carpentry skills and added the 1" trim around the doors. Kinda regret constantly skipping woodshop for hackysak and other recreational activities.
I went with Waterblaster 10000 return pump. Teed off for carbon reactor, a 29 gallon mantis tank and another line to divert back to the sump. And of course a (future) line to the washsink for water changes. I used both drains in the overflow for a Herbie which is dead silent. I haven't measured but I think I'm in the 3-5 times turnover rate with a lot of the flow diverted. Still need to neaten up and cut the right acrylic covers.
I got the reef octopus sro2000. Coming from a aquac remora what this pulls smells like death. I'm expecting either much better results or starving coral. I'll post more when I upload some photos.
