new tank build along with a new baby

Hello,

I am starting a new tank thread hopefully I can keep up with it while having a 2 week old baby girl. The baby and the tank will be 1 week apart. (baby first of course) My wife was so lovely and bought me a JBJ 24 gallon nano cube with 2 PC bulbs for my birthday. Not only did I get a fish tank my daughter was also born on my birthday. What a great birthday!! I previously had a 125 gallon tank while I lived in Arizona for a few years but had to break it down to move back. I am currently living in Heber City so sourcing for things is going to be a little more difficult and trips to the stores are going to be more expensive. (don't tell my wife)

Without further a do here are a couple of shots I have taken while setting it up.
This is a FTS with the salt mixing in it.


This is my apex mounted inside the small stand. The stand is so tiny and I think mounting this gave me more frustration then anything on my old tank.



That is the updates I have for now on the tank. I am also including a picture of my old tank just for fun.




Edited by talwen - August 27 2014 at 8:52pm

Nice

When will we get to see a pic of the new baby?

How dose the canopy doors open up?

Thanks to Mark I was able to add some live sand, LR and dry Utah rock.  Here are a few pictures updates.

Here is the preparation picture.


Here is sand rock added and cloudy I had to wait till the next day to do aquascaping as it was to cloudy to see.



Here is the Aqua scape I am not sure if this is the final form but I am going to stare at it for a few.



Any critiques welcome.

Here is a update to my thread title.

Saige Christensen

Congrats on the baby girl and the tank is coming along nicely.

Hello,

Update time for the nano cube I ordered a snail package from reefcleaners and am extremely happy with what was shipped. The snails all looked very healthy and there was also much more than anticipated or from what the website said. I also added more course aragonite sand as everyday the Utah oolitic sand was looking like sand dunes.

This is the USPS package that it was delivered in. When the guy dropped it off at my I stared at it for a second. The guy noticed how I was looking at it and casually said "it should be ok".



Here is the contents of the package 4 different types of snails.



Floating the bags for 15 minutes per the directions.



Snails carefully placed in bottom of tank.



Also the most important addition!!

Looks great! 

I like the first picture best too but the tank is looking good!