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Fish room build “this is the way”

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I was able to add these shelves from ikea.
I got everything in the picture for under $10. Now I have more storage. I think I will buy another set when I get a chance.
 

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What I am I doing the day after New Years?
Taking advantage of the warmer weather and leak testing a deep blue 120g. I had in the garage. Thinking about adding it to the system.
 

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I was able to add these shelves from ikea.
I got everything in the picture for under $10. Now I have more storage. I think I will buy another set when I get a chance.
oh I gotta get some of these too.
 

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oh I gotta get some of these too.

I got it for my kids room so they could organize their school stuff. When I mounted them I said you know this would really work in the fish room lol so I got another set.
 

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I already have it down stair. I have a temporary stand until I can get one done.

I am considering setting up a 2nd system.
It’s easier to run everything from one sump but I don’t know.

I have a bunch of extra equipment so I could do it.
 

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What is the name of the ikea shelves, going in our fish room as well

The name is “sunnersta”
The bins are right next to it. They have two sizes and a bunch of colors.
You can also use different bin/shelves combination. The combination in the picture is the small it cost less than $10 to make Good luck
 

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Since I added all those frags to my system.
My alk has dropped. Instead of dosing more 2-part
I decided to add kalk on a spare doser I had.
So let’s see how that will effect my tank.
I am also wanting the ph to go higher if possible.
 

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So the kalk is working. I am dosing 160 ml every hour 24 times a day. So that’s about a gallon a day.(3840ml) The container is 7 gallons so I should have to change it every Sunday.
My ph is at 8.06 Is already higher
My alk is at 8.24 nice bump
My calcium 414
My mag 1434
 

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So I decided to add the 120 to my system instead of setting up a separate system. It will add water volume to my system and I will have somewhere put some of my ocean rocks. I decided to get rid of the 100 gal Rubbermaid container. I like the tank option better. I was also able to pick up a zoo med frag tank ( from ocean gallery) that I will be adding to the system as well.
I have to build a stand in the next few weeks and add the two tanks to the system.

So when it’s all done I will have
220 gallon main display
60 gallon frag tank deep blue
50 gallon frag tank low boy
50 gallon frag tank deep blue
120 gallon deep blue tank
50 gallon low boy
100 gallon sump (using about 75g)
So when you add it all up it’s about 650~ gallons total.
 

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