We screwed the bulkhead connectors in last night. Never try to put teflon tape on a bulkhead connector. It took an extra 30 upside down and backwards minutes to figure that out.
Today we install the power strip for the lights. We moved the two tanks side by side.
We drill a pipe with large and small holes to serve as a water-distributor down deep in the tank.
Having proved the downflow [drain and refill] box holds water, we are safe to add water. But we don’t.
Jane has prepared new plumbing for the basement. We are going to pull up the spaflex drain line [downflow] instead of cutting it, so we can, when it’s time, just cut it to appropriate length and move the new tank back to the wall.
We have put eggcrate in the bottom of the tank to prevent rock points from contacting the bottom glass.
Next step involves our base rock, some of which is live, and washing 100 lbs of dusty sand out on the driveway.
Also constructing a ‘pot filter’ for the 54g tank, to keep the fish safe until the new tank ‘sets up’ and is able to handle their waste. We have very tiny fish, except for the one I’m trading in, so they won’t put much bioload on the system at all.
So the glue haze issue got resolved, and you are ready to proceed to Step 2, getting water and accoutrements into the new tank?
It’s a delicate, many-step process, but we’re getting there.
My bad — adding in water is probably closer to step 12, and you are now on step 4 or so… It’s like Jenga, but with live critters, and you need your base first.
Mostly we want no great weight in that tank until we’re in place: salt water’s heavy stuff!
And an online friend in the reefing hobby is, out of the blue, shipping me some additional live rock from another tank. That’s the best sort. That’ll help out a lot! We think we’re going to be devoting Wednesday to water. Tomorrow, all we’re going to do is fix the drain line: we’re going from hose to hard pipe, for neatness.
nailed 8 spammers and a botnet sort just at this logon. Jane’s got 28 yesterday. Un-real.