今年2月初我们attemptedto share with you what was supposed to be a simple video about how to move a reef tank. This 15 year old acrylic aquarium setup really sparked our imagination with its older fish, natural wild live rock, and very interesting dimensions amounting to around 200 gallons of water.
But alas the decade and half old acrylic stand had exceeded its shelf life preventing us from following through on our one-day mission. Here we are six months later and we’ve gone through many steps to finally bring this tank to life and into the modern age of reef keeping –
- Moving a 15 Year Old Reef Tank
- 制作一个盐水池塘来容纳牲畜
- Building a composite aquarium stand
- Restoring a well-loved Acrylic aquarium
- 与育种罐一起制作出色且负担得起的水底
最后,在这里,我们处于礁石饲养的最愉快的一部分,这是在礁石坦克上扎根,并阐述了该坦克在下一年的几年中如何发展,发展和发展的方式。在我们探索的每个新坦克的情况下,我们总是从某种愿景开始,对我们想要完成的工作,但是对形状不规则的岩石将如何融合在一起,尤其是这些天然野生岩石。
While we did encounter one stubborn rock that was hard to manipulate in such a deep tank on a tall stand with very wide eurobracing, the general layout of the aquascape turned out pretty much right in line with what we were aiming for. With two notable ridges of unequal height and bisected by a large deep valley we have lots of real estate upon which we can plant a ton of new corals. Our intention with the population of corals is to concentrate on adding a lot of zoanthids, shrooms, some chalices and the obligatory Euphyllia which always help to introduce some nice color and motion.
While most of the biological filtration was imported with the legacy rocks and some pre-cycledPolyp Lab Genesis blocksthis is now still a “new” ref tank which will take some time to settle in, experience the uglies, and balance the mineral and nutrient chemistries into something that is more conducive to a healthy thriving reef tank over the long term. We’ve reached a huge milestone in finally getting the reef life back into their old aquarium but we’ll be following up with yet more videos about steering this reef tank in the right direction so the journey is just beginning.