Aquarium

The Stockman Standpipe (Success)

At this point I have failed to mentioned i had Mollies in quarantine. I had worked to convert them from fresh water to salt water. I added them to the Display Tank shortly after it cycled and i started adding corals.

So after much research I decided i would get fish and quarantine them as i wait for my display tank to normalize and grow good bacteria. 

So while I was sitting waiting for my tank to cycle I kept reading about RODI systems and how they help from adding elements to the water that I may not want building up over time. I was also getting kinda sick of mixing in water conditioner and hoping for the best . I was looking at the space required and the cost of setting up such a system and was not really digging it. However i happen across a great deal on a mixing station and RODI system. It is fairly compact and works great. It saves me so much time vs mixing out 5 galons at a time. or even the 20 gallon totes.

So im going to build a reef-pi system to do automation on this tank. It will be able to act as a timer and an ATO ( Automatic Top Off) This will hopefully help cut down on the amount of time i have to spend on upkeep.

It is now after Christmas and I can move the tank into the Family room from the garage.

So a long time ago my wife had purchased the wrong substrate for her fish tank. It turned out to be live sand for saltwater aquariums. I said put it aside maybe I will some day have my own fish tank and that will help. Well years and years went by and sombody had mentioned the tank size for our Boa seemed small. So we looked at upgrading his tank to a larger size. Once we did that we suddenly had a 55 gallon tank laying around and suddenly this bag of sand turned up again. So with a little arm twisting i started looking into it.