 1 RODI water maker in the garage. |
 2 100 gallon potable water storage tank in the garage for making/storing RODI water. |
 3 When we decided that we wanted to locate the new saltwater reef tank where the current FW 90 is located we decided to split the FW 90 residents into the 40 breeder and the new WaterBox 40AIO. Since we were relocating the 40 breeder from the home office to the sitting room and the 40 breeder has the same LxW footprint as an Aqueon 65 gal we decided to use a 65 tank on the existing stand I had built. The 65 provides over 8" more view area height compared to the 40 breeder. |
 4 A better shot of the stand |
 5 After adding the sand (Caribsea Super Naturals Torpedo Beach), the first piece of driftwood (from "rocknartcreation" on E-bay EXCELLENT!), with a large Anubias Barteri from Greenpro on Amazon. |
 6 The tank is cloudy after adding more plants from Greenpro (Amazon): Jungle Val, three varieties of Amazon Sword (great!), and Rotala Indica (weak). |
 7 The tank has a cycled Penn Plax 1200 canister filter that came from the 90 FW and an Aqueon Pro 200 watt heater. |
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 9 I love the driftwood from "rocknartcreation" on E-bay. It was shipped quickly, very well packed, pre-mounted on slate, clean, and has released NO tannins. |
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 11 Moving nine X-Ray Tetras, six Albino Cories, and one common Pleco from their prior 90 gal tank into the new 65. |
 12 After the water cleared from aquascaping. No tannins! |
 13 I added the second piece of mounted driftwood from "rocknartcreation" on E-bay, and added some Dark Red Ludwigia, and foreground plants. I am dosing with Seachem Flourish, CO2, and I placed Flourish tablets in the substrate for each plant. |
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 15 Our Pleco loves Zuchini.... |
 16 This is with just the Beamswork ET Series 0.50W LED 2000 lumen light. It does not provide nearly enough light for med/high light plants in the tall (25") tank. |
 17 This is with both Beamswork LED lights on (the more powerful light is a Beamswork DA FSPEC (5000 lumen) light which I am going to run 4-6 hours per day). |
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 19 Our new 10 week old kitty "Tater Tot" watching the fish in the new tank.... |
 20 Our herd of Albino Cories are affectionately called "Googans". |
 21 The water is cloudy immediately after dosing the RODI water with Seachem Equilibrium to bring back minerals needed by the plants. The water cleared back up within 30 minutes. |
 22 Water cleared up |
 23 The Dark Red Ludwigia is recovering from the initial 'melt'. |
 24 Mr Angel is still king of the tank. |
 25 One week later and all the plants are recovering nicely. |
 26 The Dark Red Ludwigia is sprouting lots of red leaves at the top. |
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 28 The Ludwigia is sending down lots of roots as well. |
 29 Red Rubin Sword has lots of new (red) growth. |
 30 The Jungle Val is slowly recovering from the initial melt. |
 31 The Anubias Barteri is sprouting many roots and a new leaf. |
 32 The Rotala Indica is sprouting new growth with longer slender leavesnear the top rather than the round leaves it had when it arrived. |
 33 Week 6 - Plants doing well |
 34 Week 6 - Plants doing well |
 35 Week 6 - Plants doing well |
 36 Week 6 - Plants doing well |
 37 Week 6 - Plants doing well |
 38 Week 6 - Plants doing well |
 39 Week 6 - Plants doing well |
 40 Angel is happy. |
