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Well Connor has had enough of the empty tank and he misses his fish. So after the dead sea disaster we are resetting up the tank.
( for those wondering what the dead sea disaster is well when you do an almost 100% water change with 1.045 sg you almost instantly kill everything in the tank.)
This tank is my 7.5 yr old sons tank, in his room, and his responsiblity.
Last month he chose his stocking list and finalized it this week - grated that is a long way off, but now that he has that we are both ready to build it again.
After much consideration I decided to to modify the tank at all and to let it run as is, so it will have PC lights, and I will add an ATO for it to help out wiht some of the water lugging.
We are currently trying the bleach and muratic acid method of cleansing rock - we shall see what happens. The rock was laden with phospates and we are giving this method a try and we shall see what happens.
So we put the rock in a rubbermaid bin, covered it in RODI water and added 3 cups of bleach and a power head to keep the water moving.
We will let it soak for 24 hours, and then rinse in RODI water.
Tommorow after rinsing I will add the muratic acid. I'll let ya know how that goes
In the end we hope to have a lagoonal type tank with a cool rock structure held together with driveway reflectors, shallow sand bed, softies adn a few lower light lps, and the following fish...
Chalk bass
tiger watchman gobby with pistol shrimp
red scooter blenny
green clown goby
and a long nosed hawkfish
Unless I can convince him that a rubyheaded wrasse is much cooler than the hawkfish
That's all for now!
( for those wondering what the dead sea disaster is well when you do an almost 100% water change with 1.045 sg you almost instantly kill everything in the tank.)
This tank is my 7.5 yr old sons tank, in his room, and his responsiblity.
Last month he chose his stocking list and finalized it this week - grated that is a long way off, but now that he has that we are both ready to build it again.
After much consideration I decided to to modify the tank at all and to let it run as is, so it will have PC lights, and I will add an ATO for it to help out wiht some of the water lugging.
We are currently trying the bleach and muratic acid method of cleansing rock - we shall see what happens. The rock was laden with phospates and we are giving this method a try and we shall see what happens.
So we put the rock in a rubbermaid bin, covered it in RODI water and added 3 cups of bleach and a power head to keep the water moving.
We will let it soak for 24 hours, and then rinse in RODI water.
Tommorow after rinsing I will add the muratic acid. I'll let ya know how that goes
In the end we hope to have a lagoonal type tank with a cool rock structure held together with driveway reflectors, shallow sand bed, softies adn a few lower light lps, and the following fish...
Chalk bass
tiger watchman gobby with pistol shrimp
red scooter blenny
green clown goby
and a long nosed hawkfish
Unless I can convince him that a rubyheaded wrasse is much cooler than the hawkfish
That's all for now!
