Hi all,
After many years with my old tank, I have taken a step up in size, but most importantly, quality.
Andrew over at Viking Aquatics hooked me up with a great price on this tank. Andrew, thanks bro, now it's time to share the progress.
The tank arrived about 3 months ago, just after I left on a work trip and it sat in my garage for 10 weeks, just waiting for me to return. A solid crate rocked up with loads of goodies inside.
And then the looooong wait began as I spent 10 weeks sailing from Congo to Trinidad, to Mobile US, to Guyana. As soon as I got home the work began. I assembled the stand as much as I could before reaching the point where I could not achieve any more.
The next step would be to empty my running tank and move it out of the way, as it was in the spot that the Reefer needed to be, so with a lot of help we drained the tank as much as needed and moved it 2 meters to the right and refilled the tank as quickly as possible to avoid stress on the fish. Once all of that was done we moved the Reefer stand into place and placed the Reefer onto the stand.
When the time came to do the transfer, I went and collected 200L of Two Oceans water to add some NSW to the tank. The plan was to transfer 90% of the old tanks water straight into the Reefer525 and then transfer all livestock. The plan went well and everything was easily moved without any hiccups.
The following step was to add the STC1000 plus heaters to the display and over the remainder of the afternoon and evening, slowly add the Two Oceans water as it was very cold. We gradually filled it over time and it worked. Once the display was full, I filled the sump up
I needed to get some 25mm soft pipe for the return pump, this was the only item I had to get as I used 32mm on my former tank.
After many years with my old tank, I have taken a step up in size, but most importantly, quality.
Andrew over at Viking Aquatics hooked me up with a great price on this tank. Andrew, thanks bro, now it's time to share the progress.
The tank arrived about 3 months ago, just after I left on a work trip and it sat in my garage for 10 weeks, just waiting for me to return. A solid crate rocked up with loads of goodies inside.
And then the looooong wait began as I spent 10 weeks sailing from Congo to Trinidad, to Mobile US, to Guyana. As soon as I got home the work began. I assembled the stand as much as I could before reaching the point where I could not achieve any more.
The next step would be to empty my running tank and move it out of the way, as it was in the spot that the Reefer needed to be, so with a lot of help we drained the tank as much as needed and moved it 2 meters to the right and refilled the tank as quickly as possible to avoid stress on the fish. Once all of that was done we moved the Reefer stand into place and placed the Reefer onto the stand.
When the time came to do the transfer, I went and collected 200L of Two Oceans water to add some NSW to the tank. The plan was to transfer 90% of the old tanks water straight into the Reefer525 and then transfer all livestock. The plan went well and everything was easily moved without any hiccups.
The following step was to add the STC1000 plus heaters to the display and over the remainder of the afternoon and evening, slowly add the Two Oceans water as it was very cold. We gradually filled it over time and it worked. Once the display was full, I filled the sump up
I needed to get some 25mm soft pipe for the return pump, this was the only item I had to get as I used 32mm on my former tank.
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