Re-re-boot

[ndrwater]

Welp... Besides some basic maintenance for the 240 to keep things moving in the right direction, i did a bit of a thing with the 120. No fish yet, but its now more than a box of water..
A bit out of my expertise here, but how hard can it be? All the little tufts in the forground are intended to all grow together to be a couple different types of carpet...
I know this is a reefing forum, but Im sure there are enough of you out there that have done fresh at some point.. This isn't intended to derail the re-re-boot, just an update about whats happening while the 240 catches up with itself.

 

[bakbay]

Purtee - I’ve never done one before so this will be an inspiration.

 

[mescobar]

out of curiosity, where'd you source the plants?

 

[ndrwater]

out of curiosity, where'd you source the plants?

Some from my LFS "The Reef" and some from a shop called "Nolan's Aquarium".
The Reef I have been going to since before Noah built a boat and Nolan's is a planted tank specialty shop. Reef is mostly a freshwater shop but has hidden gems for corals... Plus... They carry live Blackworms which is my secret wepon to getting CBB's to eat

 

[ndrwater]

So..... Been a minute since an update ..
I ran the course of ChemiClean so no more cyano, but .. needed to take the GFO offline for the duration.. Phosphate bounced back to 1.24.
After running a sh!te ton of carbon for a bit, the GFO reactor went back online and we are now back down to .74... Checking again tomorrow to see if we are still dropping. If yes, hold course. If no, swapping the GFO for new. 50 gallon water change again today so we'll see where everything lands tomorrow..
But.... (I know this is a reefing forum, but..)
The 120 is moving forward nicely. CO2 is now online, and i installed something i am embarrassed to admit but the wife is happy, so... Happy wife, happy life.. I'll post pix up of the major eye roll soon.. instead, Ill post a couple fish pix. Those of you actually paying attention to the photos will notice something not super great, but I have a plan in action and we'll see how things turn out...

 

[janiners305]

Nice gold nugget pleco…

I spy possibly some ich on the tail of the rainbow. Shouldn’t be an issue. Spoken as a fellow freshie lol


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[ndrwater]

I spy possibly some ich on the tail of the rainbow. Shouldn’t be an issue. Spoken as a fellow freshie lol


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Yea, it's a little worse than I had hoped. Not catastrophic, but keeping an eye for sure...

 

[janiners305]

Yea, it's a little worse than I had hoped. Not catastrophic, but keeping an eye for sure...

We had some show up one day on a black neon tetra, and a few days later it was gone. No sign of it since. You should be good. Fingers crossed for ya.


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