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Hi, I am a very ignorant (reef tank) person who loves the hobby. Just starting my first 55G reef tank. Wish me luck (prayers would be appreciated). Currently have tank set up with live rock, live sand, snails, crab and lots of unknowns (ha). Begining "cycle" everything close to zero now. HEEEEEEEELLLLP !

I was going to do one big update but decided to break it up. This part is about my canopy. The system I got was a few years old and was really a fixer upper.

Son-in-law Tim helping me! They had some bad wood on canopy, looked like it wasn't seal to great! He took off all bad wood.



He replaced with all new wood. Notice I taped off the VHO caps to get ready for sealing and painting.

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I have a question about the wet assembly on my vortech. On one side or quarter of the wet assembly there is a section that does not have grills/it is solid. Which direction should this face or does it matter?

UPDATE

Time to be salty.

NSW (Natural Sea Water) arrived . . .. . I got couple of 20 liters Bottles, to get water from Sea.




576 liters Natural sea Water is here.

In the same time, I made 120 gallon tank water changes with 15gallon and put this 15 gallon in my new tank ...

55 gallon mixed reef, upgrading to a 180 gallon i picked up last friday at LFS. but need a little bit more rock to do what i wish. already have 60-70 pounds of live marshal island, tonga, and fiji live rock, but would like maybe 185lbs. should i buy dry rock and wait for benificial bacteria to grow or should i dump some money into good quality live rock?