Getting there..
Friday night from 9pm to midnight, I moved corals from the 120 into the 300.
Saturday morning around 6am, I started moving corals from the 180 into the 300.
About 10am, Grigor and Jacob came over and we drained the 120, drug it out into the living room, filled it back up and started draining the 180.
They left around 2pm and the 180 was empty and stinky, the 120 was full of montis and the 300 was running in a room that looked like the planning stages of clark griswald's epic christmas display...
By 1am, I had drained, cleaned and scraped a decent amount of the 4 years of gunk out of the 180. Somewhere in there, I did a 40 gallon water change on the 120 too, as it had been disturbed. During the water change, I saw something flopping over in the little bit of water in the 180...lo and behold, the yellow watchman and pistol shrimp combo that I thought was dead except for the shrimp were looking for a way out. I grabbed them up and tossed them into the 120...they likely will have to make a similar appearance when it comes time to get into the 180.
This came out in one piece...somehow
Cloudy/blue pictures of the 300...
Still lots of work to be done.
Looks like I will be putting the 180 on its new stand on monday, try to put the rocks and water into it on tuesday, plumb it on wednesday, do some tests and move livestock on friday or saturday.
Tested phosphates in the 300 tonight at .05. Between the LaCl3 before moving livestock, running GFO and my ATS getting a good start and then a kick start with algae from Grigors, it seems to be doing a good job. The last test I ran before I put in livestock was thursday or friday and it was .18 which was after the LaCl3, but before the livestock transfer and GFO/ATS.
Currently running the light intended for the 180 on the 300. Waiting for some parts to come in that I will use to build my light hanging apparatus for the ATI over the 300.
And I still have wires to deal with...that is the gift that keeps on giving, clark.
Friday night from 9pm to midnight, I moved corals from the 120 into the 300.
Saturday morning around 6am, I started moving corals from the 180 into the 300.
About 10am, Grigor and Jacob came over and we drained the 120, drug it out into the living room, filled it back up and started draining the 180.
They left around 2pm and the 180 was empty and stinky, the 120 was full of montis and the 300 was running in a room that looked like the planning stages of clark griswald's epic christmas display...
By 1am, I had drained, cleaned and scraped a decent amount of the 4 years of gunk out of the 180. Somewhere in there, I did a 40 gallon water change on the 120 too, as it had been disturbed. During the water change, I saw something flopping over in the little bit of water in the 180...lo and behold, the yellow watchman and pistol shrimp combo that I thought was dead except for the shrimp were looking for a way out. I grabbed them up and tossed them into the 120...they likely will have to make a similar appearance when it comes time to get into the 180.
This came out in one piece...somehow
Cloudy/blue pictures of the 300...
Still lots of work to be done.
Looks like I will be putting the 180 on its new stand on monday, try to put the rocks and water into it on tuesday, plumb it on wednesday, do some tests and move livestock on friday or saturday.
Tested phosphates in the 300 tonight at .05. Between the LaCl3 before moving livestock, running GFO and my ATS getting a good start and then a kick start with algae from Grigors, it seems to be doing a good job. The last test I ran before I put in livestock was thursday or friday and it was .18 which was after the LaCl3, but before the livestock transfer and GFO/ATS.
Currently running the light intended for the 180 on the 300. Waiting for some parts to come in that I will use to build my light hanging apparatus for the ATI over the 300.
And I still have wires to deal with...that is the gift that keeps on giving, clark.
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