new 75 up and running!

[Serra]

OMG it's hard to post following Brook and Sheri's award winning post. Racking my brain for a joke even...

Travis and I spent the last two days setting up my 75. I don't know how paul did his 600, I am beat from this ordeal. Everything went smoothly after the mishap with the sump...broke it. We went with plan B, 20 sump and 10 wastebasket fug. I don't know what I would have done without Travis. My back and knees are shot this morning. Thanks Trav! Hope he and his family got home safe and sound.

The new sand from the group buy looks great. Thanks again paul t. It didn't cloud up too much so I am hoping it looks good today. We combined the rock and inhabitants from the 35 and the 25. Everyone survived so far. We removed about a 3/4 of the water from the old tanks then just acclimated fish and corals in the tanks with new water. Hopefully it was nothing more than a major water change to them:
fish:

royal gramma,
2 onyx perculas,
red flame hawkfish,
pygmy angel,
Purple firefish.

inverts:
various mushrooms
a couple of COMAS zoo frags
2 varieties of coral that covers rock, what are those again Trav?
BTRA

The tank was rr and I used my old mag 5 with two 1200 maxi's. I have 4 T5's on it so in a month or so, I'm ready to rock and roll. I plan on getting a skimmer as soon after Christmas as possible. Will up the mag after that. Here are some pics that are blurry because my boyfriend needs to buy a new one. I don't have the money for one, I keep fish. Whine, whine.

I still have a big mess to clean up and sand to dump but my tank is up! Have to arrange the rocks today since you can't see how you are putting them in. Will try and get sis's camera for better shot when it clears up.

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I will be selling the 25 tank, with a HOB refugium as soon as I get it cleaned up. It comes with a wrought iron double stand and a 20 on the bottom...some HOB filters too. Will have to sort it all out.

Also a 30 gal and stand with eclipse top as soon as I get fish changed out to the 35. More work. Yikes! Anyone willing to work for above tanks and equip?

Sheryl

 

[papagimp]

AWESOME!!! Can't wait to see non-fuzzy pictures, lol. Great job Sheryl! and if your purple firefish decides he don't like the new home you just let me know,

 

[Serra]

Surprisingly enough, the firefish was one of the first to come out after move. I think he is afraid to go into new hidey holes. He will have to find a new territory. I love my firefish so no hope for you there Adam.

 

[nIx_tank]

Sweet! Looks like you got it going!

I love firefish, I just haven't seemed to be able to keep any alive.

They have not been jumping victims, but just waste away in my tank.

 

[nlknight]

nice tank sheryl, take some more pics when the sand settles :wave:

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8792104#post8792104 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nIx_tank
Sweet! Looks like you got it going!

I love firefish, I just haven't seemed to be able to keep any alive.

They have not been jumping victims, but just waste away in my tank.

Sheryl's firefish is absolutely huge compared to all the ones you see in the store. It's a gorgeous Purple Firefish. Sherly, would you say that it's 3-3.5" from tip of snout to tip of tail?

 

[Serra]

I could measure him...but that seems right. You have to take care to make sure you get some food near his hidy-hole. It means over feeding tank a little. They are pretty shy but he got a big piece of squid this morning in the new tank. His tank mates are pretty easy going too. Hope he does as well in this tank.

I feed twice a day but do 25% water changes a week. I have a little hair algae but I don't mind since my fish are pretty fat and sassy. Actually they are just right. Knock on wood.