Just reestablished a 75 gal acrylic that was shut down during a protracted divorce. It's built into the wall and really makes the house (it's a small house in the mountains, it's definitely off the beaten path up here).
This is the third time I've operated this tank, and the three big things I'm doing right off the bat: 1. big new hob skimmer, 2. new ro/di with tdp meters, 3. new T5's.
I had crap water for a long time last time. Bad me. No more. I'd rather spend money making the tank work right then put new animals in. Hard lesson learned, patience.
This time around I found a guy on cl that was breaking down his tank in 4 days, so I was in a hurry, emptied the freshwater from my tank I used to test for leaks, and spent a long long evening moving his rock/polyps/mushrooms/xenia/sand into my tank. It all went to heck in a handbasket as I wound up 25 gal short on water and had to wait until the next day to get a hydrometer and water.
I lost some of the xenia but that'll come back, and everything else seems to be happy. Might I add I moved all this livestock in a blizzard? Crazy!
