Not the best day in my saltwater world. The cleanup crew for my 75 gallon FOLWR was supposed to arrive yesterday but got delayed. By the time it arrived today, most, maybe all, of the hermit crabs were DOA. The chaetomorpha that was supposed to arrive yesterday, for my refugium, never showed up. UPS can’t figure out if that package is in Lincoln, NE, or Battle Creek, MI. Hopefully it gets delivered tomorrow but I won’t see it until Monday when we get home from camping.

But! I was gifted this before we left. The yellow watchman goby and pistol shrimp that will graduate from observation tank to display tank in mid-October have found each other!

I think my 75 gallon FOWLR is finally ready! This is my first saltwater system, I have more than a dozen freshwater aquariums.

I started the process back in mid-May, dark curing sterile reef rock in my basement. Most of the summer was spent water testing this setup out in my garage while also replacing all of the flexible vinyl tubing with rigid PVC. I set it up in its current space in the house last weekend only to realize the EShopps Eclipse L overflow was leaking due to a broken bulkhead nut (rookie overtightening mistake.) The replacements came yesterday and I finally got it all back up and running. Excited to do a final ammonia test and then start introducing fish that have already completed QT.