Filled, cycled and some early shots
Progress update.
Finally the camera has charged after 7 days :p.
I have filled up the tank, started on Thursday and finished yesterday morning.
1400Litres of RO and 2 buckets of Tropic Marin Pro salt and the salinity sits nicely at 1.025.
I added 3 litres of Zeovit to the reator, 140ml of Zeostart 3, 70ml of Zeobak, 35ml of Sponge power and 10kg of live rock to kick off the 14 day cycle.
I tested the parameters today, a little ammonia, calcium at 420, mag at 1300 and Alk at 4.8!! wtf?:confused: I think the Germans forgot to add the alk to the batch of salt, must have been a friday or they ran out of Bi-carb soda at the supermarket :D . Anyhow i got the doser straight onto it and slowly bringing it up to 7-8dkh.
My skimmer was not broken in so its constantly flooding itself which is annoying, though its getting longer to do it each time. Stupid me should have vinegar bathed it.
Pic of the skimmer lid off.
DSC00858[1] by vpreef, on Flickr
Pic of the Zeovit reactor
DSC00857[1] by vpreef, on Flickr
And finally a FTS, nothing really to look at yet. I did remove a large piece of base rock and replaced with 6 smaller bits which im much happier with :). Only running on 150w of t5's in this pic.
DSC00856[1] by vpreef, on Flickr
here are a couple pics of new corals, taken from my phone today.
IMG_20121026_205050 by vpreef, on Flickr
IMG_20121026_205031 by vpreef, on Flickr
IMG_20121026_204954 by vpreef, on Flickr
IMG_20121027_181651 by vpreef, on Flickr
Finally the camera has charged after 7 days :p.
I have filled up the tank, started on Thursday and finished yesterday morning.
1400Litres of RO and 2 buckets of Tropic Marin Pro salt and the salinity sits nicely at 1.025.
I added 3 litres of Zeovit to the reator, 140ml of Zeostart 3, 70ml of Zeobak, 35ml of Sponge power and 10kg of live rock to kick off the 14 day cycle.
I tested the parameters today, a little ammonia, calcium at 420, mag at 1300 and Alk at 4.8!! wtf?:confused: I think the Germans forgot to add the alk to the batch of salt, must have been a friday or they ran out of Bi-carb soda at the supermarket :D . Anyhow i got the doser straight onto it and slowly bringing it up to 7-8dkh.
My skimmer was not broken in so its constantly flooding itself which is annoying, though its getting longer to do it each time. Stupid me should have vinegar bathed it.
Pic of the skimmer lid off.
DSC00858[1] by vpreef, on Flickr
Pic of the Zeovit reactor
DSC00857[1] by vpreef, on Flickr
And finally a FTS, nothing really to look at yet. I did remove a large piece of base rock and replaced with 6 smaller bits which im much happier with :). Only running on 150w of t5's in this pic.
DSC00856[1] by vpreef, on Flickr
here are a couple pics of new corals, taken from my phone today.
IMG_20121026_205050 by vpreef, on Flickr
IMG_20121026_205031 by vpreef, on Flickr
IMG_20121026_204954 by vpreef, on Flickr
IMG_20121027_181651 by vpreef, on Flickr
