Well the last pictures got out of order but you got the idea anyway, Ok, here we are tank is set up, but empty because we were exhausted from the whole process so water was for the next day. The rest of the night I made cracks about how pretty the fish looked and how all the fish disappeared because (du du du du) Jaws made his way into our tank, ate everyone and washed them down with the water.
The next day we got up and began the whole process. We had bought salt and the guy told us we could use our tap water to mix the salt and sold us a chemical to put in to dechlorinate, dechloramine, de-ammonia(lol), detoxify ammonia, nitrite and nitrates and provide slime coat and a phosphate pad to be placed in the filter area of the sump. That being done, next came the sand, one 30 lb bag (I think) was plain normal fine sand, the other bag was live sand. We rinsed the normal sand like we were told, but not the live sand and into the tank it went…OH MY, we thought we were never going to see clear water again and of course this left things wide open for me to make those off-handed wise cracks while I sat looking in the twirling whirls of sand. A few lbs of live rock went in and guess what?(I dislike myself for this, but was ignorant) Later that day a couple of poor little green chromis. I couldn’t even see the poor things and I asked my husband, how can that be good for them, all that sand swirling every where and of course his remark was “ I don’t know Cat , but I guess the guy knows what he is doing.” So the little green chromis swam in the murky water and at one point I said do you think we should turn the pumps off so maybe the sand can settle and they can at least breathe and maybe even see to eat? He said hmmm, maybe that’s a good idea so off went the pumps and then a little while later we both kind of said , ya know we have fish in there some where, how are they going to live, so back on came the pumps, Boy, were we stupid or what?
By the way, I still have those same green chromis which you will see later down the road.
This picture is on the 1st of May, days after and this was when it was beginning to actually clear a little.
