[jackson6745]

Quote: Originally Posted by nyfireman3097 Hey Rich you have any decent skimmers laying around I could rent/buy from you ?

Sorry Nick but I am out of all my reef stock. I have to start buying a bunch of stuff again.

[KathyC]

Great plan Nick!
Looking foward to seeing Le Tank

[leoskee]

Nick, I sent you a PM about a skimmer.

[cali_reef]

How are you going to get a 36"x48" stand thru your front door??

[nyfireman3097]

Rich do you still have my # ? Call me.

Tony you know it lol. Y do we both need tanks just one of us really do lol

Cali My buddy is taking care of that for me Ill have pics of the stand and all when there ready. I finally finished the final design on my stand so it will be started next week with getting buuilt and coated

Tob

[marki24]

we want more pictures

[boozeman]

for magnets try this www.kjmagnetics.com
I wish you luck on your build !

[nyfireman3097]

lol Marc I wish I could give more pics those are pics from my 120g. I have a thread on here somewhere with the build.

Ill check that sire out thanks

[nyfireman3097]

Well a lil update

I picked up my Marcorock 2 weeks ago. Monday Feb 25th i loaded a 75g tank w/ the rock and also ro/di water. I let it soak in the ro/di for 24 hours. On tuesday I added a heater a tunze 6100 and a mag7 for flow. From tuesday until this tuesday I did 10g WC's on it w/ high salinity water until I raised the salinity to 1.025 and have the water heated to 81 degrees F. Wend I added a euroreef skimmer to the tank thanks to a local friend. I added a shut off valve to the air intake and adjusted it to skim dry. Yesterday the water had a yellow/green tint to the water and was very foggy. Today I went there and the collection cup was full of tar like skimate and a very very thick foam overflowing and wrapped the whole outside of the skimmer. I was cleaning it off by wiping my hand from the water to the top of the skimmer and the foam wasnt breaking nothing it was that thick. I cleaned the cup and the outside of the skimmer. The water today was extremely clear today. I added a bottle of fritz-zyme 9 to speed up the cycling process.

I will take pic tomorrow of the rock curing.

The rest of this process will be like so,

Next week add 2nd bottle of Fritz-zyme 9
10-20g WC a week
Test the water every week for Ammona/Nitrite/Nitrate
Tank should be ready April 22nd
Pick up the tank
Add the rock and sand
Test the water 2 days later for:
Amm/trites/trates/PO4
week later add my clownfish and a big cleaning crew
then test every week and as long as everything is going right every week add my fish back into the tank.
In one months time I plan on have all 15 fish back into the tank.

When all fish are in and all test show "0" (PO4 .03), I will then Start testing for :
Cal (415)
Alk (8.0)
Mag (1500)
Pott (380)

After there inline with the way they should be I will connect my Calcium Reactor and start adding all of my SPS and LPS into the tank.

I will then start to dose my zeo additives one at a time until I get the right dosings. Gonna be using

Amino Acid
Coral Vitalizer
Pohls Coral Snow
B-Balance
K-Balance
Sponge Power
Pottasium Iodide
Iron

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

	LPS Large Polyped Stony corals – In the aquarium hobby this is a common division of the species of stony corals based upon the visual assessment of the size of the polyps. Corals in this category were among the first stony corals to be kept successfully in captivity and include many very beautiful species. Commonly kept Genera include Euphyllia (hammer/frogspawn coral), Favia (brain coral), Plerogyra (bubble coral), Lobophyllia (meat/tooth coral), and Caulastrea (candycane coral). LPS corals also include the popular solitary non-colonial stony corals such as Fungia (plate coral), Cynarina (button coral), Trachyphyllia (open brain coral), and Herpolitha (tongue coral). Like their SPS counterparts, LPS corals require good water quality, intense lighting of the appropriate spectrum, adequate water movement and regular supplementation of calcium.

[nyfireman3097]