Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Start of the Saltwater Tank

Okay, so my lovely husband gave me a saltwater aquarium (29 gallon BioCube HQI, more specifically) for our anniversary.  Some of you might roll your eyes because it's not "romantic" or jewelry.  Whatever!  I just advise you to stop reading now...  It's amazing!  I am so excited!  Anyway, we had to wait about a week to get the stand, but that was ok.  This is a picture of it on setup day with 20 lbs of Bahama Oolite sand in it.  This is a super fine grain sand.  The guy at the store had me sold on it from "crab tracks."  I'm such a sucker!  Anyway, we used the Instant Ocean salt and mixed our own water.  I have a kitchen scale, so we used that to mix it according to the directions.  It's a little murky right now, but it will clear up.  The sand came with a packet of "stuff" to make the water clear faster, but since we were going to be gone all weekend anyway, we just let it run it's course...

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