And So It Begins

I finally got my stand yesterday and put together last night and now I got my sand. In the next few days I'll be ordering/getting my other equiptment. YAY!!!


My 55 gal. I have 30 lbs of sand so far. I want to add live sand to it right before I start cycling.


My stand! =D I put this together last night


Just of the aquarium. I can't decide whether to paint or use a background for the back yet. The cords drive me nuts LOL

Just looking at this is making me have chills. YAY

 

Looks good I would paint the back of it black or blue (black is what I would choose) it can be removed if you want it off for what ever reason I just used a razor. The backgrounds that are easy to remove always get salt behind them and never really look as good and all that tape residue is a pain to get off.

 

I painted mine blue and dont like it but i plan on putting rock all the way up the back wall so it wont be seen much i would go black ive done black background paper before doesnt last tho nice setup so far wich i could afford to have started out brand new

 

Definitely paint the back. If you can get a cup or two of sand from your LFS or a fellow reefer instead of buying commercial live sand. You will get a better population mix from the two cups of sand than a bag of "live sand".

 

Agreed

 

Thanks! Might be my Thursday project lol.

I have a nice LFS here in town and the guy is very nice.

 

great looking start Pet Mother
plain black backgrounds are available where I shop
and I went with one of those in order not to need to directly paint the tank

tank was up and running, full of water, before I considered this
so a plain black background , and some assistance from my son, was added to the back
after the tank was set up

if you cant get a plain black or dark blue background
get one with pictures on, and then using acrylic paint - paint it black ( I got this idea from the Rolling Stones)

Steve

 

sweet here it starts can't wait to see this tank get going.

do you know what size sump you are going to be using for this 55g tank.

 

No, I'm still trying to figure it out. :S

 

Nice start!!!! What are you plans on equipment and LR?