thank you

[tattoooedlex]

so on and off over the past year i have been saving and planning a upgrade from my 90 to a 125. A lot of you helped out with great advice and i wanted to say thank you. The swap took place this past weekend on Sunday. It was an all weekend affair. almost 12 hours worth of mixing up fresh rodi salt water. next morning, rinsing 120 lbs of dry sand for 3.5 hours. then the swap took @6-7 hours. I am completely happy to say there were 0 casualties. Although I did not have much to swap in regard to live stock. I never once had any ammonia or nitrite or nitrate spikes. Even my anenome moved with out once even cracking his mouth open. Although i discovered a small pin hole leak in one of my drain hosed ( which will be replace ), there were absolutely no issuses.
So a big thank you for all the advise you guys provided. I truely appreciate it. Please check out the pics of the new tan and let me know what yah all think.
PS I will be seperating the giant rock wall into two seperate islands when I do the first water change.
Thanks Again

 

[tattoooedlex]

here is a link to video of tank on youtube if you are interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUszIW7Yfvc

 

[Martini5788]

Looks great!

 

[JammyBirch]

Frigg'n awesome. Are you rocking a ghost overflow on a drilled tank? Great looking tank. I love these posts, where you let everyone see what you have done and have learned.

 

[tattoooedlex]

Just a standard CPR overflow, luckily the new tank went on a wall with a closet on the other side. So filtration is all hidden in there.

 

[ZeeSparrow]

That looks fantastic! Glad to hear everything went well with your upgrade.

 

[monkeysee1]

Good job! I'd kill for a 150 or a 180 so I could get the NICER fish - you know - ones you can actually SEE- just don't have the room in my (very small) house! LOL!

 

[nuxx]

Looks good, love the white of new rock...

Soon fades to terrible greens though

Then finally ends up purple...

 

[tattoooedlex]

Thank you for the compliments

 

[tattoooedlex]

quick question,
1 week and 1 day after swap. Water test
salinity 1.023
temp 77.5
RODI water was tested at 0PPM
PH=8.3
DKH =10
phosphate= un detectable
nitrate= un detectable
ammonia = undetectable
nitrite = indetectable

why am i getting a diatom bloom?

 

[ericarenee]

quick question,
1 week and 1 day after swap. Water test
salinity 1.023
temp 77.5
RODI water was tested at 0PPM
PH=8.3
DKH =10
phosphate= un detectable
nitrate= un detectable
ammonia = undetectable
nitrite = indetectable

why am i getting a diatom bloom?

Because Diatoms hate us and Were sent here by Aliens to make our Life Hard.
on a serious note prob because of moving things around
Great looking setup by the way.

 

[tattoooedlex]

Because Diatoms hate us and Were sent here by Aliens to make our Life Hard.
on a serious note prob because of moving things around
Great looking setup by the way.

finally something to make me laugh