We won the 165g!
We won the 165g!
Thank you very much for the kind words Kmiec123.
We do not enter too many contests and I have never won anything this exciting in my entire life. I have had fish tanks since I was a small child (about the age of my two boys that were at the show with me). I have tried saltwater in the past but never got really serious because it was pre-YouTube and I could not figure it out. We moved to the Chicago area in December and when we set up our 47g column tank, we went saltwater. We then added (2) 29's in the basement for curing live rock an fragging. Thanks to YouTube, we have been able to get everything going quite successfully.
Then comes the 165g!!!
As of a few days ago, the new tank is up and running like a champ. We purchased a sump/ refugium and it took me about 3 days to figure out how to tune it but I suceeded. We had a handfull of cheap fish in the 3 tanks so we transferred them all to the big tank. We had enough live sand and some live rock between the other tanks so we transferred that as well. We still need a bunch more rock and a protien skimmer but we will get that in time. We have the 47g with a stand that we are willing to trade for rock or a skimmer if anyone is willing.
Attached are pictures...
We are just 3 boys in a candy store!!!