Well its been one seriously busy month
been run off my feet trying to squeeze everything in, and the added issue of the tank upgrade was a headache that I enjoyed grately
I intended to the upgrade with a 2.5' tank that was being picked up at the begining of this month, but decided I would use a 3ft 25g that I had as I just managed to sell some of my breeding plecs and got £100 for 2 pairs
lol so that paid for a bit of the upgrade.
Problem was I had to strip down the old tank to move it as the new tank was going in the same place
This tok the best part of a day. Moving everything into buckets/large containers while I set the new tank up. I did expect to loose either coral or fish but luckily this was not the case.
I moved the old tank inc sand onto a stand at the other end of the room and set it running agin with new filter floss etc and put thefish and corals back in there overnight to give the new tank time to settle and stablise temp salinity etc.
The new tank had another 22lbs of live sand added and an initial 5Kg of live rock making approx 13kg of rock altogether with the stuff from the old tank. I dint get much in the way of hitchikers in the second 5kg batch just a startfish and another bristle worm.
Fish where added back 24hrs later with the corals once |I was sure the temp was stable and s.g. was good. Everythig settled well with no ammonia or nitrate spike over the following week. I then bought another 5kg of live rock to finish the scaping and also added another 3kg of base rock to support the scape at the bottom. Total rock now approx 20kg
Third lot of rock and had amundance of hitchikers inc 2 mantis shrimp starfish bristle worm button polyps feather dusters nice brown macro algae etc. It had some lovely shapes and colours of algae too. Was really pleased with the quality an amount as there seemed to be twice as much as I normally get giving me lots to work with for the scaping
For the new tank I also bought a new light unit, powerhead, 3 chamber internal filter. The internal filter houses the heater pump and all filter media so it keeps it nice and tidy
The tank has been running for 3 1/2 weeks now with no fluctuation in any stats which is great, ive had a few minor algae issues which the clean up crew have kept on top of. So I will add something to help with any phosphate issues to the filter.
Ive slowly been adding coorals to the set up over the past 3 weeks and the new fish went in friday of last week and more will go in tomorrow.
Ive slightly overstocked..lol but I intend to add an 8g sump to the tank over the next week or so.
Pics time
New tank layout..
My pics always turn out so blurry whenever i try and take a pic of my fish 
Currently living in the fry trap 
