[jason2459]

Thanks Abril.

I was nervous at first with the CBB and cut some egg create up to section off the tank when I first introduced him to the tank as I read and heard he would be to nervous to eat and other fish would compete to much for him to get enough. Tried brine, scallops, clams, and finally found the smaller black shelled live muscles from a local grocery store was what he was craving. I'd scrub off the shell, crack it open, and just hold it in there as he'd rip everything right off the shell. He never did eat any aptasia that I had.

I really don't like the canister filter and if I do end up using it will be for mechanical filtering into the UV filter. I'm looking into ozone as an alternative to the UV filter.

Not exactly sure what will go in the tank for livestock. I would like to get some different corals eventually. I love inverts of all types. They're just fun to watch and great personalities. For fish I'd like to stick with smaller fish and will look for peaceful/reef compatible fish. I do want to get about 30 more lbs of liverock. Currently have about 50lbs of dead rock.

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I've sanded down and restained the stand and canopy.

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Replaced all the hardware except for the door handles as I thought they were pretty unique and were a nice solid brass that I was able to clean up.

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I've ordered and started to receive several things already. Current Sundial 48" 4 t5, 100lbs of dolomite gravel, auto top off system I'll rig up, 5 stage bulk reef supply RO/DI unit, perfecto undergravel filter (will be reversing the flow into it with two 53gph pumps), aqua lifter for the ato, big manum pump for pumping up new salt mix water, and a bunch of plumbing.

I already ran a new 20amp GFCI circuit dedicated to use. I'll have the RO/DI unit fill up a res that I'll check and fill up once a week (more or less) and use the aqua lifter to pump to the ATO that I'll have on a timer to run in short spurts. Then I'll have two runs of tubing going to the basement and straight into a drain. One will be hooked up to one of those hand primers and used to drain watter and the other run will go to the magnum pump in the mixing water to pump up new water. I'll have ball valves to stop and restrict flow.

Here's the HOB refug.

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I want to use that to grow macro algae or anything else that just wants to grow back there. Will light that up with a small florescence light at night.

For biological filtration I want to try something out that I've found is kind of unpopular right now I guess. I want to us a reverse undergravel filter. I've been researching all type of things from SSB, DSB, NSB, Plenum, Plenum variants, RDSB, Refug DSB/SSB in DT, blah blah blah. I really liked the idea and how the RUGF works.

Here's the setup so far. Got the tank scrubbed out and painted the back black.

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