The Seed & The Cycle - Phase 1

 So now that I've got the aquascape sorted out, it's time to game on and start the reboot process. 

On a Saturday (06/02) afternoon, Bing came over and started getting everything out of the tank. He got a long hose, one side clipped to the side of my tank and the other side will be to a drain pipe. While draining the water, he started removing the rocks/corals/fish from the tank. Included in the reboot package would be some cleaning as well.

 It took a good solid 2-3hrs to get it done. I was actually amazed it took that short of a time! Especially for a tank that size. The tank looked empty and I was abit sad to be honest. Sad that I now have to wait a couple of weeks/months before I have some 'colours' in my tank again. 

It was about 5pm when he left, and I started filling the tank with RO/DI (Reverse Osmosis De-Ionized) water. For those of you who do not know what RO/DI water is, it's basically pure water. No chlorine, no sodium, no traces of any other minerals/elements, only pure good old H2O. It takes a long time to get RO/DI water because typical hobby grade RO/DI systems only generate a small output of RO/DI water and will most likely take hours to fill 150 gallons. My RO/DI system generally goes at a rate of 15-20 gallons/hr. So worst case scenario it will take me 10 hours to fill it. To make things worse, I had to carry and fill the tank bucket by bucket as there is no convenient way of dumping water into the tank from the RO/DI system. So yeah, if 1 bucket is 8 gallons and I have to fill a 150 gallon tank, you do the math how many times I have to go to and fro, lifting up and down to get it filled. I eventually filled halfway and was too tired, so I went to bed. The rest of it shall be continued tomorrow. Hopefully dad doesn't kill me for the high utility bills this month.