Tje`s 75gal reef build

Great!! I've got a cracked bulkhead!! Last night I had to tighten them up a bit because they had slow drips, and then they were fine! No leaks at all! then this morning I wake up and one of them has a fast drip, and upon further inspection I found it had cracked overnight! This is great!! There is nowhere in town to get any and its to snowy to get to des moines and back fast enough to be back to go to work! And of course glassholes doesn't have a phone number, only an email!

What should I do??? any ideas?

 

Problem solved!! Thanks to xroads! Back up and running again! I also ordered a couple extra bulkheads. thank you everone who responded!

 

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Thanks a lot for the comments and advise!!! I really appreciate it!

 

Thanks for the info!! Ill look into it!


Also I'm realizing one mistake I have made already haha. I should have made the return chamber in my refugium larger! So far I have had to add water every day to keep the pump going lol.

 

I agree! I'll have to try it next time! I'm making a line graph of my cycle to share when it has completed. So far only ammonia has shown up, todays results were; Ammonia 1ppm, Nitrite 0ppm and Nitrate 0ppm.

 

Ok, I have decided on what lights to get! I'll probably order them Thursday. What do you guys think of them?


http://www.ebay.com/itm/190804656074

 

Today everything tested the same as it did yesterday, and I also tested the phosphate today and the result was 0 ppm.

 

Well I decided to purchase the lights from ebay. They should be here by the 27th, I'm pretty excited!

I also added 3 pounds of grunge original, 2 pounds of grunge plus, 2 pounds of crushed coraline encrusted rock, and a bag of bugs with chaeto to my refugium. It did a great job finally getting my cycle kick started! The very next day I finally had nitrite readings!. There are also tons of little copepods, amphipods, worms and little micro brittle starfish in my refugium now! The only complaint I have is that I got a couple little aptasias in my grunge plus. I took the little rock each was attached to out to be disposed of. All in all a good product.....I just hope that I got all of those little buggers!

I have also come up with the beginning of a stocking plan.
As soon as my cycle is over and I start seeing some algae I will add my clean up crew, which will consist of;
10 cerith snails
10 star astrea snails
10 nassarius snails
2 brittle stars
and 2 pistol shrimp
I wanted to start with a small crew at first then I can always add more later.

Then after a couple of weeks or so I will add one or two gobies

If everything goes smoothly for awhile after that, before I add any corals or anything I want to get a bubble tip anemone. That way he can get all settled in to wherever he decides to and not run the risk of running into corals.

Thats as far as I've planned ahead. Let me know what you think.
Thanks for looking!

 

Well I was able to get my light hanger built today before work! All thats left is to add a piece of 1x2 across the top to help keep the board that will suspend the lights from warping, and to stain and seal it. Hopefully I can get it done tomorrow since the lights are supposed to be here on wed. Its nothing fancy, but I built it for less then $30 and with nothing more then a hacksaw, tape measure, and a hammer!

I don't know why I cannot host pictures off of my phone but here is a link; http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac14/tje22/75%20reef/2013-03-25150137.jpg

 

Thank you for the comnent!! I too am curious to see how these lights work out. Ill get them on the tank tomorrow and try to get some pics posted.

 

I have also decided on the fish that I want. I will list them in the order that I will add them;
1 orange stripe prawn goby, 1 starry blenny, 2 ocellaris clowns (preferably some "designer" clowns), and 1 green mandarin ( when the system is more mature with a good pod population).

And depending on how well my bio filter keeps up I may add a few of these;( keep in mind that this is just a list of fish I like, and in no way do I plan on adding all of these as that would be way to many fish lol)
Bartletts Anthias, Exquisite Fairy Wrasse, Carpenters Flasher Wrasse, McCosker's Flasher Wrasse, Black & White Chromis, Blue Reef Chromis, Black Axil Chromis, or some Lightning Double Bar Chromis.

 

Yes I did! And so far I am very happy with them. I still havnt figured out how to post pics with my phone, but I can post another link for now. http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac14/tje22/75%20reef/2013-03-27150220.jpg

It looks more blue then it actually is in person for some reason. I will try to post more later when im not at work.