Scott Nolan’s Rants, Raves, and Meandering Thoughts
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So we have the new 120 Gallon aquarium up and running, we have seen most of the fish and shrimp this morning, but we are missing one of two neon gobys, my six-line wrasse, a watchman goby, and a pistol shrimp.
I took a few photos, and they are up on the experimental .mac site, wow that was easy. I may have to subscribe to .mac regularly. Trivial to publish photos!
After a major setback last night (the first sump tank leaked), we have a new sump tank in place and the plumbing is working perfectly in the new 120 gallon tank. I set up the Tek T5 lights and got them on a timer too. It is starting to look nice.
The new sump was my old hospital tank, so I had to migrate all the corals, fish, and shrimp from the old hospital tank to the 30 gallon breeder. Feels good to be done with this phase.
Well, after talking it over and examining our options, Erci and I stopped by Marine Scene and bought a 120 gallon All-Glass (brand) aquarium, cherry stand, Tek T-5 lights, versa-top, sump, pumps, and plumbing to make it all work. The new big system will go into the dining room and it will house the fish and coral and shrimp from four smaller aquariums we’ve had on the kitchen counter and in the family room since they came home from work.
I am using a 30 gallon breeder with CPR backback overflow skimming to filter sand and water before it goes into the new system. For a while it will be a lot of work, but once set up it should be easier to maintain than all the little tanks. Now I am impatient to start plumbing tests and thrilled the old backpack works so well at skimming the surface water (I should have use it much earlier, great device).
Erci and I love aquariums. We have several of aquariums in our home, we visit aquarium stores wherever we travel, and we make semi-regular trips just to visit big public aquariums to learn more about marine life and enjoy the beauty of coral reefs.
We just learned about a new (well, relatively new) big public aquarium in Valencia, Spain.
L´Oceanogràfic is allegedly the largest public aquarium in Europe today (that position probably will not remain for long, they build bigger ones all the time). The architecture and detail of planning the marine eco-systems for all the animals at L´Oceanogràfic appear to be models for the latest in marine biology and education and science. This aquarium is now on our list of must go see places. Any one up for a trip to Spain?
We are going with a group of Erci’s Dad’s friends in April and May of 2007. Not sure if we can fit this aquarium into the trip or not, but we will try.
