Turtle and Bubbles 75 Gallon Tank

[brokendeck]

Hi everyone! We are first time saltwater tank owners. Other than reading on-line and visiting a friend with one, we had no experience with saltwater tanks. We both had the dream to have one so we are learning along the way. Patience seems to be the key ingredient in this hobby. We started by purchasing a tank from a guy who moved and had no room for this beautiful tank. We are a little late posting the beginning of our process....but we got the tank March 13, 2009.

 

[brokendeck]

We ordered 120 lbs. of white sand to put in the tank. We added our water in and we definitely got the cloudy look that everyone warned us about!

 

[brokendeck]

lol im not sure why I have on 2 different shirts while im putting in the sand. Your guess is as good as mine.

 

[chickenhedfred]

Hahaha I was wonderin... How big is that tank and what do you plan to put in it? What kinda tank? fowlr, reef, fo, predator etc.

 

[brokendeck]

Its a 75 gallon reef. Im gonna put alot of corals and a few fish in there. I got alot more pics to post up. Im ab to do it in a few mins.

 

[chickenhedfred]

Alrighty! Cant wait to see some pictures.

 

[brokendeck]

Haha. The reason you have two shirts on is because in one you are putting the salt in and in the other we are adding the sand. lol
Here is a picture of the sump the first time we put in in. We ordered one with no directions so we were putting it together by some phone instructions from a friend.

 

[life~reefer]

Nice! Can't wait to see it later on.

 

[brokendeck]

We are croping more pics right now, so there will be alot more coming now. These pics that are posted right now are ab a month old.

 

[brokendeck]

Here are some pics of the tank when we added our first few pieces of rock and put up some lights on to make do until we found a light to buy.

 

[brokendeck]

After a few hours, the water cleared up.

 

[brokendeck]

We added a blue background to the tank and got a cup of seed from a friend that has had his tank for at least 7 years.

 

[chickenhedfred]

Lookin good!!!

Can't wait to see it fully set up!!

 

[wattsupdoc]

Sweet!

 

[brokendeck]

Originally Posted by ChickenHedFred
http:///forum/post/3021521
Lookin good!!!

Can't wait to see it fully set up!!

Trying to get there. We have alot more pics, but its hard to keep my woman awake at night to crop all the pics. Ill get her to crop all of them tomorrow and add them up to the point where we are at now. Shes been worried all day bc I had surgery today. Im good thou. We will get the rest of them up asap. Sorry for the wait.

 

[chickenhedfred]

Its iight!

If you had surgery I guess we'll give you a break... LOL

 

[brokendeck]

Originally Posted by ChickenHedFred
http:///forum/post/3021542
Its iight!

If you had surgery I guess we'll give you a break... LOL

At least someone will cut me a break! HAHA

 

[brokendeck]

Okay, woman is awake now..lol. I will post a few more!
We got some more rock and have kind of been playing around with them. We also got some children! hehe guess most people call them a cleaner crew...

 

[brokendeck]

Couldn't quite fit all the pics on the last one so here are the rest of our cleaner crew and a few more with the rock not yet arranged.

 

[brokendeck]

Okay, I think we are up to date now. We purchased our last pieces of rock this week, got it all arranged where we are happy with it, and finally purchased a light. We also got our sump rearranged and set up nicely. The light has been mounted in the canopy. We have air holes at the moment and the back of our canopy is open, however we are looking at fans this weekend to install to take some of the heat out.