shallowreef
Well-known member
Well my skimmer should hopefully be in today and i can get started this evening.
A little update,
I must have jinxed myself about how good Marineland heaters were. Because yesterday i was working on my tank trying to get all the dirt/debri off the bottom of my tank and i got shocked real good. I knew right away that it was my heater doing it too. The reason i knew was because when i first installed the heater everything was working just fine. My tempature was rising at about 4 degrees a day and holding well at night in the cold basement. By Wensday afternoon i noticed that my temp had gone down two degrees and the indicator light on the heater was off. so i tapped it a little and it came back on. Yesterday afternoon the temp was down another three degrees so i readjusted the thermostat and it kicked back on, I had a feeling that i had a faulty heater. I should have just unplugged it at the first sign of trouble.
Well i'm getting the skimmer today and i am shutting down my small tank (35 hex) and i am adding that rock to my tank tonight. Hopefully by Sunday i will have both tanks shut down and have my tank looking like an aquarium. I have a lot of work ahead of me in these next couple of days. I will snap as many pics as i can to show my progress and the finished product. I most likely won't post em till Monday but will see.
Till then,
Nick
A little update,
I must have jinxed myself about how good Marineland heaters were. Because yesterday i was working on my tank trying to get all the dirt/debri off the bottom of my tank and i got shocked real good. I knew right away that it was my heater doing it too. The reason i knew was because when i first installed the heater everything was working just fine. My tempature was rising at about 4 degrees a day and holding well at night in the cold basement. By Wensday afternoon i noticed that my temp had gone down two degrees and the indicator light on the heater was off. so i tapped it a little and it came back on. Yesterday afternoon the temp was down another three degrees so i readjusted the thermostat and it kicked back on, I had a feeling that i had a faulty heater. I should have just unplugged it at the first sign of trouble.
Well i'm getting the skimmer today and i am shutting down my small tank (35 hex) and i am adding that rock to my tank tonight. Hopefully by Sunday i will have both tanks shut down and have my tank looking like an aquarium. I have a lot of work ahead of me in these next couple of days. I will snap as many pics as i can to show my progress and the finished product. I most likely won't post em till Monday but will see.
Till then,
Nick