Thanks!
Still pushing on with the setup for now, it is very slow but I am making progress!
I have 6 30 gallon bins full of dead rock that's "cooking" and will soon be swapped over salt water to start cycling until I get water in the main tank. I also won 40lb of rock at Reef Fest that looks amazing! I have another bin down there that has live rock in it that was covered in majano but I have been plucking them 1 by 1 with pliers and tweezers and haven't found one on any of the rocks for a few days now so hopefully this approach is working!
My RODI unit is suppose to arrive today so I will get it installed and hopefully do a good water change on all of the rock tomorrow night when I have some good water instead of begging for or buying RO water.
I am almost done with all the plumbing for the tank but I need to find a 2.75" and 1.75" hole saw to drill bulkheads in the refugium. I've never drilled acrylic before but I think I can figure it out.
Hopefully by this weekend I will be rinsing the sand that came with the tank and putting it plus the live sand I won at Reef Fest in the tank. I think I will fill the tank about half way and then start placing all the rock. I am going to try to pre plan the rock-scaping a little and pre assembling some of them but I don't want to keep any of the live rock out of the water for too long so we'll see how that goes.
There is also a very strange pink anemone that stowed away on the live rock. I decided to leave it there for now since I don't think it would be a nuisance. I'll have to try to get a picture of it to post.
If anyone has any advise on any of this please let me know. I think I'm covering all my bases but I've never built a tank anywhere near this big or complex.
Edited by ElwoodUT - September 26 2016 at 11:38am