All about the Build My 95g

[jojo22]

Glad to hear it working out for ya. Sorry to hear you're takeing a 40 gallon loss.

[Sweetpea]

Sorry to hear you had the break, but glad you're back on track! Keep us posted!

[lamajo25]

Well the 55 is all plumbed into the fuge and ready to go. I was looking at substrates the other day and the one that was in the 95 was a very coarse crushed coral. I really didn't want to just get rid of it beause it was somewhat expensive just to throw away. So I decided to see if I could crush it up more. A hammer and two ziplock bags later it wasn't working. So I was thinking, my coffee grinder. Way too much work way to small. So the remedy, a blender and some water. I'm getting fine to some rubble pieces in the blend. It's working great. I love doing things on my own.

[jojo22]

I would try to get it as small as you can. Don't want any dead spots for crud to build up in.

[greg97527]

so much for the blender lol

[lamajo25]

For the most part it's fine sand. It has some larger pieces of rubble but I figure a Jawfish of some sort would love to use them. I'll try and take a pic so you can see how it came out. Oh and by the way, the blades are just as sharp as they were when I started. It's one of the ice crushing machines. No I wouldn't use it for anything other than things like this anymore.

[jojo22]

Yeah you don't want to have to wounder why your smoothie tastes weird.

[lamajo25]

Not a chance.

[lamajo25]

Well there's water in the tank, it's flowing nicely, seem's to be doing great. I'm gonna put in the live rock that I didn't put back into the nano as I wanted more room for the anemone initially. He's huge (the reason for the larger tank). Anyway, question for anyone who has one. I'm using the Allglass Aquarium with Overflow and Accessory. Yeah that one. Does anyone else have a problem with it burping constantly or is it not supposed to.

[jojo22]

Try adding a peice of airline to that nipple on the standpipe, then put an adjustable valve on it and play with that it should help. If not I will dig you up a link to a different set up.