this link should go to my photos online...

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well I can only see the stand right now, the rest is in a box and I can't move the stand till in have help tomorrow.

put in my order for a few other parts to arrive this week, 4 Tunze pumps and the controller to get good water movement in the tank, also the Tunze auto top off controller and a pair of utility pumps to help with water changes.

with that all my core hardware should be in place waiting for the livestock.
I am planning for the live sand and base rock a week later on or about the 28th.

Then let the system run for at least 10 days to let it all get stabilized before...

so my LED light strips are here, also my spectra pure RODI is here (180 GPD, auto flush and float valve shutoff), went and got some tap cons and an 44 gallon rough neck trashcan for holding make up water. will get that setup tomorrow.

Tank and stand will be here on Thursday afternoon.

Also got a Milwaukee refractometer and a set of basic salifert water test kits, some 2 part alk and ca supplement and starter bio bacteria to help get it seeded before I add any real...

Informational: Help, my fish are fighting...!!!
The old freshwater designations of aggressive and community don't work well as marine concepts.

Marine fish are almost all (including the oblivious-to-the-world mandarins) capable of killing another fish, under one of two conditions: lunch, and if your tank is too small to prevent encroachment on what a fish's biology informs his small brain is 'his' space, or his food supply.

In the ocean, one fish eats another,...