TWOLITREmedia
01/03/2013, 08:03 PM
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I think everything was floated at this point
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Here's my yet named little clown :-) Excited to get out and re explore the new reef!
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Here is the beast of a protein skimmer (Reef Octpus BH2000 I believe) still turned off at the moment, and probably will remain that way till possibly tomorrow night.
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So after many hours and my back killing me from improperly lifting large buckets with hundreds of pounds in them I decided to turn the light on quickly for a few photos. I was told to keep it off for the first night and turn it on in the morning. Had it on for all of five minutes and felt bad as the frog spawn began immediately reaching out towards the light. Regardless it's night time and it was time for bed anyway.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/B20Bomber/4-6.jpg
So all in all a giantly successful day in my opinion. Like I said before I don't think I could be happier with my $700 spent on this set up. Not pictured here is all the testing kits, refractometer, supplements, food (frozen and dry), salt, the RO/DI unit, and just INSANE amounts of other stuff the guy threw in. I felt incredibly bad at times when he helped me do this entire thing along with my three friends because I could tell it was killing him to get rid of it as he had thousands tied up in the hobby he loved. I'm not even sure how he could have left his RO/DI unit twice and flooded his basement to the point his wife demanded the removal of the tank, but I guess as the saying goes his loss....you know the rest.
Here's day 2 of the tank just before I topped off the water level with some salted RO/DI water that's been mixing since the day before.. :-) After this I also got the protien skimmer running, as well as bought and installed a small internal filter to take care of some of the kick up created by the fish flying around. Eventually this will be pulled once my sump system is in place and I change out my power heads for a pair of MP10es.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/B20Bomber/9301612F-96D9-4565-A53A-7C469B1F51CD-6686-00000491605110A8.jpg
The set-up from afar....
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8062/8254455016_67337e2b32_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254455016/)
My Little Ocean - Day 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254455016/) by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com (http://www.flickr.com/people/twolitremedia/), on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8355/8254453720_23a6eaa14c_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254453720/)
My Little Ocean - Day 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254453720/) by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com (http://www.flickr.com/people/twolitremedia/), on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8219/8253377589_3f30820322_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8253377589/)
My Little Ocean - Day 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8253377589/) by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com (http://www.flickr.com/people/twolitremedia/), on Flickr
I think everything was floated at this point
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/B20Bomber/01B4E062-7BC2-4A74-AE76-109CDCC21248-6300-0000040294C6A277.jpg
Here's my yet named little clown :-) Excited to get out and re explore the new reef!
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/B20Bomber/F33A23FA-4BBC-42E1-AD0A-0FEA2865F155-6300-000004023F64B5E4.jpg
Here is the beast of a protein skimmer (Reef Octpus BH2000 I believe) still turned off at the moment, and probably will remain that way till possibly tomorrow night.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/B20Bomber/9CE261D1-E043-4322-AE63-4E9582F397AB-6300-000004028EE4245B.jpg
So after many hours and my back killing me from improperly lifting large buckets with hundreds of pounds in them I decided to turn the light on quickly for a few photos. I was told to keep it off for the first night and turn it on in the morning. Had it on for all of five minutes and felt bad as the frog spawn began immediately reaching out towards the light. Regardless it's night time and it was time for bed anyway.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/B20Bomber/4-6.jpg
So all in all a giantly successful day in my opinion. Like I said before I don't think I could be happier with my $700 spent on this set up. Not pictured here is all the testing kits, refractometer, supplements, food (frozen and dry), salt, the RO/DI unit, and just INSANE amounts of other stuff the guy threw in. I felt incredibly bad at times when he helped me do this entire thing along with my three friends because I could tell it was killing him to get rid of it as he had thousands tied up in the hobby he loved. I'm not even sure how he could have left his RO/DI unit twice and flooded his basement to the point his wife demanded the removal of the tank, but I guess as the saying goes his loss....you know the rest.
Here's day 2 of the tank just before I topped off the water level with some salted RO/DI water that's been mixing since the day before.. :-) After this I also got the protien skimmer running, as well as bought and installed a small internal filter to take care of some of the kick up created by the fish flying around. Eventually this will be pulled once my sump system is in place and I change out my power heads for a pair of MP10es.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/B20Bomber/9301612F-96D9-4565-A53A-7C469B1F51CD-6686-00000491605110A8.jpg
The set-up from afar....
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8062/8254455016_67337e2b32_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254455016/)
My Little Ocean - Day 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254455016/) by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com (http://www.flickr.com/people/twolitremedia/), on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8355/8254453720_23a6eaa14c_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254453720/)
My Little Ocean - Day 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8254453720/) by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com (http://www.flickr.com/people/twolitremedia/), on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8219/8253377589_3f30820322_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8253377589/)
My Little Ocean - Day 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twolitremedia/8253377589/) by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com (http://www.flickr.com/people/twolitremedia/), on Flickr