Our New Tank - finally up and running (sort of)...

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[VickiG]

Well, after much long-awaited anticipation and many hours of research, shopping trips, much $ spent  :cry: , lots of labor etc.... we finally have saltwater in the tank!!     We wanted to share with all of you, our very patient reef-loving friends, that we have been making some progress over all these months!  We just put in about 85 lbs of live rock yesterday.  We need more rock, and will arrange it better when we get more, but wanted to show you what it looks like so far.  We have all the pumps running and just fired up the halides this afternoon (actinics are in the canopy which is off right now) and are watching the temperature rise.   Next purchase will be a chiller.    Our ORP is very low - any ideas for increasing it or is it too early to even worry about?  Now we watch and cycle I guess.  We do want to get more live rock in there ASAP so we don't have to totally go through another cycle, so if anyone has rock they want to part with... :lol:  

We are total newbies again now that we have actual water in the tank!  Your advice is always welcome for the next steps we need to take!  Thanks.  

Hope to see everyone at the meeting on Saturday.

[angelscrx]

Wow long time no post!!!  Welcome back, and we are glad to see you.  The tank looks great, more rock will definitely help and you can add more rock later if it is fully cured.  Shouldn't be too bad or you can add it in stages as long as the rock being added is cured.

[VickiG]

Thank you, Angel.  Sorry we didn't make it to your good-bye party...where are you now (I forgot) and have you got a tank set up there?  Hope you can get out this way sometime for a meeting and maybe we will have more to look at in our tank by then!  Take care.

[luvnsalt]

Vicki-
Your tank looks great! I am sooo excited for you.
Dashia

[Rico]

The tank looks good Vicki

Need more pictures :-)

Rick

[VickiG]

Thanks, everyone, for the nice words.  Will take more pictures when there is more to see!

Hope to see everyone at the meeting.

[angelscrx]

Vicki, we have moved to Virginia and no the tank is not up yet but it's getting there.

[VickiG]

Angel, I knew it was somewhere back East.  Hope you guys like it there.  We missed you guys at the meeting last night.  Good luck getting your tank back up and running.

[angelscrx]

Everything here seems to be to my wife's liking (that's always good).  The only thing that saddened her was there are no Starbucks out here!  We were by the mall yesterday and in a new building a sign said Starbucks coming soon so she perked right on up.  I think she will love it here.