Hi guys! I am doing a DIY, +repurposing project to convert my current brackish tank with gobies, monos and green spotted puffers to a full salt reef tank. I currently have a 20g IM nano with a few young fish (clown, blenny, pseudo bicolor), CUC (snails, hermits, peppermint shrimp), a bta, temporary housing for a juvenile condylactis, and some random corals on frag racks.
I would like to take my non drilled 90 gallon with a black sand bed to reef ready.
I currently have over 100 lbs of dry rock cycling in a 60 gallon full salt bath with a heater, HOB filter, circulating pump and a 75 gallon BioSpora starter dose.
I am gradually raising the salinity in the brackish tank every two weeks with the hope of having them at 1.026 by the time the dry rock becomes live wet rock. As I do that, I have removed the sponge and floss from my canister filter leaving just carbon and ceramic media. I am also running a large HOB with carbon and floss for water polishing. I am down to just 3 pieces of mopani wood for the gobies to hide under, and will be removing them and replacing PVC for now...until I can get the reef caves built.
I am gathering supplies for an under tank sump / fuge and have a large protein skimmer and pump, a 40 gallon long tank, return pump and am looking to build a pvc over flow.
I will try to update my progress here as it happens.
Thanks for reading!
Dee
![20g.jpg 20g.jpg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/935/935875-f0550fc6822d04de40dec957a432feb6.jpg)
I would like to take my non drilled 90 gallon with a black sand bed to reef ready.
![brackish.jpg brackish.jpg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/935/935876-3984a4d4f460de6e335bda3d75dbe599.jpg)
I currently have over 100 lbs of dry rock cycling in a 60 gallon full salt bath with a heater, HOB filter, circulating pump and a 75 gallon BioSpora starter dose.
![rocks.jpg rocks.jpg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/935/935877-3441b4e2d7ed0f7530c5e5ad728e7e65.jpg)
I am gradually raising the salinity in the brackish tank every two weeks with the hope of having them at 1.026 by the time the dry rock becomes live wet rock. As I do that, I have removed the sponge and floss from my canister filter leaving just carbon and ceramic media. I am also running a large HOB with carbon and floss for water polishing. I am down to just 3 pieces of mopani wood for the gobies to hide under, and will be removing them and replacing PVC for now...until I can get the reef caves built.
I am gathering supplies for an under tank sump / fuge and have a large protein skimmer and pump, a 40 gallon long tank, return pump and am looking to build a pvc over flow.
![future_sump.jpg future_sump.jpg](https://test.reef2reef.com/data/attachments/935/935879-68375b4e91cd40cea9565ee710642aa2.jpg)
I will try to update my progress here as it happens.
Thanks for reading!
Dee