Setting Up

Today we started setting up. So far all we have is water and salt (not enough salt though, I need to go get some more.)

Here are some pictures of what we have so far. Not really exciting.


Here is our first picture. If you look at the water surface you can see that the current on the left side was much stronger then the current on the right.

This is a piece of live rock that had dried out that we are going to try and seed

I moved the filter over to the right side of the aquarium and stuffed all of the ugly stuff in one corner. We will see if I can't cover it up with something. This evened out the flow of water considerably as you can see by looking at the surface water. The "filter" isn't really acting as a filter since I removed all of the media so the water could flow freely. Where the filter stuff usually goes I will put some smaller pieces of live rock. #1 to increase the amount of live rock in the system helping with the biological filter. #2 to leave a place for little creatures to live without fear of fish getting them. (until they accidentally get caught in the current and become fish food.

Put a backdrop on the tank that may or may not stay there. It at least hides wires, and gives the tank more color during these early stages.

That is it for now. Tomorrow I will buy some more salt and once we get the salinity, temperature, alkalinity, pH right we will buy some more live rock (this time with little critters to start the cycle.)