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We have been busy moving the corals out of my 30 gal over to the 100 gal. I keep having to hold my husband back, he wants to do it all in one day, but we are doing it a little at a time, drip by slow drip. We cannot find the camera otherwise I would be posting pictures. I will be returning to work next week and will get my lousy camera from there so you can see how beautiful it is beginning to look.

I cannot believe how much stuff I had in the 30 gal tank. I got the leather corals, the

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I added 40 lbs of Tongan Live Rock a week ago and my NH3 is 0.0. The critters are beginning to come out and play. Saw some cute copapods/amphipods running around and a cool bristle worm. I know they are supposed to be "bad", but I never have had one iota of trouble from them. I think I will go get a few green chromis's today, see if I can't kick up the cycle again.

And she'll have fun, fun, fun, 'til her hubby takes her C-card away!

All Right! No leaks! I am going with a DSB (Deep Sand Bed) system. I have 7" in the back and 3" in the front display. No Plenum, I had thought I would put one in but on further investigation I decided to forgo that piece. I added the H2O this afternoon and hooked up the pump. I have not added any salt yet as I am waiting for the water to clear. This is my first acrylic tank. It is a 100g bowfront and I am excited to get going. My plan is to move all the critters from my two nanos into the big ta… Continue

I am going to start filling my 100 gal reef tank in the morning. It is going to be crazy. The plan is to put the sand bed in the early morning and I although I have an RO unit, I am having 100 gals of RO delivered in the morning. I will then start bring up the salinity and temp. Nitrogen cycle here I come. I will be adding live rock, which will cure in the tank....dum de dum dum!