AnotherMeuser’s 5 gallon build!

While I am waiting for the Tonga to bleach out I went ahead and set it up with a few pieces of un used Marco rock I had laying around just to have something in it to look at. I also went ahead and got the water going. I added about a 1/4 bottle of fritzyme

After letting it sit for a week with just the bacteria today I added 2 blue leg and 2 red leg hermits and the smallest clownfish I could find to kick off that nitrogen cycle.

Here it is shining under the kessil A80 TB. I love this little light, it is on its lowest brightness setting in this picture and that’s still bright. The color adjustment on it is nice too!

Upgrades today! Upgraded pump that doubled flow and upgraded heater.

Now that the easy stuff is out of the way it’s time to start thinking about upgrading the filter. I had the foresight to remove a couple of the supports from the rear compartment in preparations for adding a bio media chamber. The plan is to change the way it flows and add about 40 cubic inches of bio media. This will require a bit of acrylic fabrication but that’s easy peasy. This is the layout of the rear filter section as it was out of the box.

this is my vision. Instead of the water just going through the little filter area and on to the return pump as illustrated above it will now pass through it and be channeled back up to the top where it will flow over a divider and back down through ceramic bio media. Then on to the return pump. The box holding the ceramic media will be removable for maintenance. Seems like a sound game plan? Any suggestions or anything I’m missing here?