It's been a while since I've updated everybody. Been a little hectic with work, personal life and attempting to run the club
Tank was pretty much ignored and went south. But the past 2-3 weeks I've actually been doing water changes and it's making a huge difference, shocking huh?
So I've added some more sand to thicken up the sandbed a few months ago, rearranged the rockwork last week, remounted some frags, upgraded the PH's for a little more flow and as or right now I upgraded the skimmer. I'm still up in the air about keeping the skimmer but it's pretty damn quiet so it's Kim-approved. Tank is cloudy from the water change I just did but I'll try snapping some photos either tomorrow or Thursday...
I'm also contemplating hooking up the 2 part doser I got from Greg Hiller forever ago that nobody seems to be interested in. I can only imagine how nice the tank would be if the chemistry was correct. I stopped dosing 2 part maybe a month after I started doing it by hand. I just have to figure out how loud it would be inside the stand, if I could get it to all fit inside the stand and if Kim would be pissed about me drilling a hole in the back of the stand (not that that would really persuade me not to
) I have a digital timer that can be programmed something like 20-30 on/off periods a day in minute increments but I lost the directions and haven't sat down to tinker with the programming yet.
As some may have seen I'm also looking at getting a controller and possibly upgrading to an AI Sol (or equivalent LED fixture) so I can have more control over the intensity and coloring of the lights. I've got a birthday coming up in May so hopefully I can get one or the other for a b-day gift and get the rest of the funds from a combined b-day/graduation event
Stay tuned and keep bugging me for photos...