Ok, I just joined today and was not going to start a thread yet, but saw this JBJ subforum and can't hold back. So I'm 40 days into my journey already, so I'll backtrack a little to start from the beginning. I decided that 15 years since my last reef was long enough to wait, so I bought a 14G Coralife cube with a 150w MH fixture from CL for 50 bucks.. got some live sand and about 5lbs live rock plus water from my LFS's display tank to get started (no cycle). I started with a little mushroom rock and a YWG about a week later. I bought an APEX Jr. and realized that my temp was fluctuating from 72 to about 82 with the MH fixture. I bought a heater and after some heavy research, and recommendation from another LFS that the A160WE and controller was the fixture that fit my needs/wants best. All was good until I decided to buy 2 clowns from another supplier in the valley and he had a JBJ30RL and stand on display. I left that night with my 2 clowns, the JBJ tank and stand. A few days later I did the swap.
borrowed my daughter's sand toy to keep the sand from going everywhere. Used about 10lbs of sand out of the 14G plus 25lbs live sand from Petco of all places (was convenient).
Photo taken 12-24-14
more coming soon..
borrowed my daughter's sand toy to keep the sand from going everywhere. Used about 10lbs of sand out of the 14G plus 25lbs live sand from Petco of all places (was convenient).
Photo taken 12-24-14
more coming soon..