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thanks I am excited I got my wholes drilled and the stand is painted (except doors that I will build next week)

thanks tcfab for the new holes in my tank
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are you adding water this weekend?
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Im test filling it right now with fresh water and then filling it this weekend
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Have you finished the stand? If so, you need to post some pics!
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finished the stand wow I have been so busy not updating this I have water in it and have moved all my coral today hopefully it goes good just finsished 5 minutes ago getting everything transfererd
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well here is a quick shot of everything now that the dust has settled now I just need to auqascape and clean house before the wife gets home from going to the lake camping with her parents




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The tank was looking awesome. I was able to find a spot for that Id Grap... that was a huge piece! Hope it gave you some room to finish your aquascape.
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thanks going to run some tests but looking at everything I would say everything is looking really good heres some shots of the tank






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Looks pretty dang good... !!!

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Very cool I like your layout, mine is similar but on a bigger scale:)
Good news all my params are good today!!
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mine are a bit off mostly worried about alk and ammonia I am already running lots of cheato and lights are on all day going to get some prime in the morning and do a water change I added some baking soda to bring alk up I just added lots of carbon will see what it looks like in the morning

Alk 4.8 dkh
calcium 550 ppm
Ammonia 0-.25 ppm I would say closer to 0 cant tell real well with these api test kits
nitrate 0
nitrite 0
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Wow your alk is lowConfused
Nerve racking huh, you think it's all going good and then one slight thing being off can just throw it! I think if I would have removed my large brain coral when I thought it looked like it was dying I wouldn't have lost so much but I will never know:(
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I had to double check it with another kit just to be sure same with calcium there can be alot going on with all the changes of moving a tank not sure what drove it down so much so far all the corals look fine except a duncan that was strugling before
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alk is up and ammonia is down today

ammonia 0
alk 13.4 went a little to far dosed slowly through out the whole night (kept waking up to and had to check on it and added a little each time)
calcium 520
ph 8.4
temp got to 84 yesterday got the fans installed this morning and running temp is 78 this morning hopefully it stays down better with the fans
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Nice tank and very fast build!Thumbs Up
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thanks I started about 1 and 1/2 weeks ago

Edited by sanddune600 - August 22 2010 at 4:50pm
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How did everything do over the weekend?

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I think i will have 0 loss very lucky so far i havent noticed any missing coral that got lost on the move eitheri
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I cant believe how high my ammonia is today although my corals look completely fine I dont understand

ammonia 8+ppm
alk 12.2 dkh
calcium 470

going to do huge water changes
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Just for fun can you test your phosphates? One of the reasons I'm using the ecobak is so I have more bacteria to combat high nitrates and phosphates
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