I hope all had an amazing Thanksgiving,
I
have recently had to move my 125 gallon reef aquarium. Not a task I wish upon
anyone. I used many many 5 gallon buckets that I bought from Lows for just a
couple bucks each, but these buckets just weren't enough. There were more
buckets than I had room. All the rock had to go into them, the fish, and
corals, and even the sand. Mind you, a 5 gallon bucket full of wet sand is very
heavy. But once it was moved I decided to go with a shallow sand bed instead of
the deep sand bed that I had. This is partially due to not wanting to carry all
of the sand from one place to another and partially due to wanting to reduce
the nutrients that my aquarium continues to hold. The shallow sand
bed helps so that more of the nutrients will be picked up by my filtration so
that I can then remove it when I change out my filter foam, protein skimmer,
and water changes.
Stay
tuned, in the end of March I will be moving my entire 125 gallon reef tank 8
hours away. That time I will take plenty of pictures along the way for all to
see how that progress went.
