60 Gallon “Lazy Cube” Build

[Wolf8895]

aquascape looks good!

Thanks! I tried to make it interesting from the front and from the side facing my desk, since that's the side I'll be looking at all day.

 

[Wolf8895]

"the waiting is the hardest part" -- Tom Petty

Still cycling. Ammonia is 0, but still have plenty of nitrites.

 

[Wolf8895]

Small clean up crew has been added to start on the algae. Hopefully I’ll be adding the first fish when I get back from my backpacking trip next week.

 

[Wolf8895]

Made it back from backpacking. Tank fully cycled while I was gone. My SBB corals arrived the day after I returned! Got them in the tank and they seem to be doing well so far. Also added a royal gramma that stays hidden right now.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Made it back from backpacking. Tank fully cycled while I was gone. My SBB corals arrived the day after I returned! Got them in the tank and they seem to be doing well so far. Also added a royal gramma that stays hidden right now.
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Love the aquascape design!!

 

[Wolf8895]

Thanks!

Love the aquascape design!!

 

[Wolf8895]

Meet Inky and Stinky!

 

[Lebowski_]

You did a nice job with those rocks. I like the little islands.

 

[Wolf8895]

You did a nice job with those rocks. I like the little islands.

Thanks! Added another small island to give the second Goni a landing spot.

 

[Wolf8895]

Friday FTS. It’s in one of its ugly phases right now. Additional cleanup crew is arriving today.

My corals from SBB seem to be doing well. Well except for the Acro I knew I shouldn’t have bid on but I got carried away.

 

[Wolf8895]

New cleanup crew did the trick, however now I've got a bloom of some kind clouding the water. Did a 10% water change last night and woke up to a dead return pump. I have another one coming tomorrow morning. Critters will have to survive on the wavemaker circulation for a day or so. I have a pump from a skimmer I'm not using, but i have nothing to fit the outlet to my return plumbing, so I took that opportunity to upgrade to a DC pump. Heater is temporarily in the display also as i usually hide my heaters in the sump.

 

[Wolf8895]

Not much to update. New pump installed, DC so much quieter than the old Mag12 I had on it. Bloom is clearing up slowly.

Got my GSP rock seeded. I m know it’s a weed but I love having a little grassy meadow in one corner.

 

[Wolf8895]

Bloom was still hanging on so I added a cheap uv from Petco to finish clearing it up before my coral shipment comes Wednesday.

 

[Wolf8895]

Added a random flow generator from VCA at lunch time, upped the flow on my return pump a little to take advantage, and now I'm twisting valves and adjusting the pump controller like some kind of mad scientist trying to rebalance my return and drain flow.