The tank arrives tonight! Around 7 pm! Which means I'll be heading to Lowe's after it comes to pick up all my plumbing supplies. The plan is to plumb it and install the sump tonight.
Tomorrow, I'm going to my old house and picking up my skimmer and RODI unit, then I'll install the skimmer and fill it with water, add salt, and let it mix overnight.
Then Sunday moving starts. I'm going to get a lot of new 5 gallon buckets and heavy duty trash bags tonight from Lowe's, and on Sunday, I'll have to pack up all my rocks, drain the old tank, catch the fish, remove the sand, and move everything over to the new house.
I'm going to clean the rocks one by one. Removing all trace of Kenya weed and majano! If I have to boil some of them (which I know I will), so be it. I do not want to start this tank off on the wrong foot. Because it will take a while to clean all the rocks, the fish will have to live in a rockless tank for a while, but they'll be okay. I'll add the sand in on Sunday too.
As for equipment, I think I'm going to do this tank a little differently. I'll still use my Octo skimmer (like I'm gonna let a $600 skimmer go to waste), but instead of doing a remote DSB/fuge like the last tank, I'm going to try a DIY algae scrubber (courtesy of Santa Monica's informative thread) and a refugium. I'm going to somehow have the scrubber in the fuge to conserve space.
I'm bringing the cable from the work camera home (still can't find mine) and you'd better believe that there will be pictoral updates throughout the weekend.
I hope all my fish survive. They will be PISSED OFF at me.
