Before and after pics of the 550 rebuild

[BrianD]

Saturday, Henry came down and we aquascaped my 550. All the rock had been in my 150 gallon rubbermaid tub for 2 weeks. We started a little before 1:00, and Henry left a little after 10:00. It was a heck of a project.

The pictures aren't that great. I will get some better ones. Almost the entire structure is secured in place with Thorite. I would conservatively estimate that we used 20-25 smaller pieces of live rock and 8-12 medium pieces, and 3-4 extremely large rocks. Henry did all the rock placement and mortaring. The rock wall on the left of the tank is awesome, and I will get better pictures that do it justice. It is made up almost totally of small pieces of rockwork

This picture was taken right after I dumped the sand in and drained the water I used to rinse it. I used a mixture of aragamite, carib seafloor, and some larger substrate with shells, etc.

http://daniell.us/images/tank/tank_empty_resized.jpg

This picture was taken after we finished. The tank was still somewhat cloudy from the silt, etc stirred up as the water was added.

http://daniell.us/images/tank/tank_full_resized.jpg

Thanks again Henry!

[hcs3]

that didn't take long to clear up!

[BrianD]

It is very clear except for the darn bubbles.

The tank does look empty now. Does Sailfin have any interesting smaller fish?

[hcs3]

i'm not exactly sure a small fish will make your 550g look filled ;)

[derrikd]

what are you plainning on for that?? look great now>>

[BrianD]

My plans are to start adding corals and clams to the newly created wide open spaces :)

[epon]

wow, that looks good! nice work :) lots of room to get corals established. I suppose I could be talked out of some frags if you wanted. Monti caps, birds nest, monti dig would be my suggestions for starters ....

[ahenson]

I owe you frags as well. Lots of zoos, some lps. LMK