new 120

Hello, I have a lot of questions , firstly I noticed on my tank this poo bits which are not getting raised up into the overflow for some reason? I have a maxspect gyre at 40% because if i push more power the torches are being pushed to much. Also the brown stage is relentless, 2 months and still...

Hey guys I am currently 5 months into my first reef tank. I am going to post two pictures one from when we first added corals (yes there is a nem in there it was given to us and then we relocated it when we couldn’t keep it happy) and then a picture taken today. I feel good about the progress of...

Hi, I'm Mark. I bought a house for retirement several years ago at 8650' outside Boulder, CO and it came with a built-in 120 gallon tank. I'm just now getting around to setting it up and I'm glad to have the help of this forum! I have some experience from childhood with fresh water tanks and...

Hello all blukorr here, I've been dreaming, researching and saving for five years to break into the salty side of the hobby! I've saved up around 5 grand to get my dream tank and equipment and I feel it's time to pull the proverbial trigger and start buying things. I've seen that a lot of...

Hey guys and gals Here is my 120 build thread. As of now, the tank has been running for almost two months. Took some Persuasion to get me to post. It is a 120 Visio with stand and canopy. My exiting tank was a 90 acrylic. I’ll post as I get a chance to. Critic and praises welcome.

Hello R2R.. I'm kinda new to the saltwater hobby. I recently (2weeks ago) got my 120g up and running and I just turned on my skimmer and it does this.... I am panicking right now. It sit in perfect water level. It's filling the cup with foam in under 1min.... Hope you guys could help me out...

Hi, I'm in the Process of cycling my new 5x2x2 FOWLR tank its currently running on 2x Fluval Fx6 Canister Filters and a Tmc reef tide 8000 wavemaker with 40kg of dry rock. I'm thinking of getting another wavemaker as I don't think this is enough flow I just wanted to know how much more flow I...

First post.. so I recently purchased a (what I was told) 2 year established tank with 120 lbs live sand, 100 lbs live rock. fluval 1200mm light bar(replacing as it is junk but it came with it) I’m running fx6 and cascade 1200 canisters being it’s not drilled. And a Sea clone protein skimmer...

Thank you first off for reading and your possible help in this situation! I am getting a 125gal set up. Right now just going over some fish just so I can have a mock plan for the future. Will not be getting any fish till at least 2 months or more from now, as I will be doing a very deep clean...

Hi My names Kyle I’m new to the Reef forum been in the hobby for about 12 years with a lot of ups and down’s but I’ve come a long way since the beginning been putting a lot of time and effort into my Tank and trying to network with more people in the hobby.I live in a super tiny Town in...

Hey guys. As the title says...I have a little nano running but just ordered a waterbox 220 and I'm stoked. But I have very few friends in the aquarium hobby and I'm looking for more! Whether it's to swap some frags, or just hang out and check out eachother's set ups...I'm down for whatever...

How’s it going guys . I have recently crossed over to the “blue” side of the water box hobby . And I keep seeing r2r get mentioned so I figured I would join and show my box and as well maybe eat tips and pointers from you guys! My set up is 10g tall tank. HOB with chemipure and filter floss...

Yup, another guy who got lost and accidentally wandered into a fish store. Well, not quite…. Long ( and I mean like 20 something years long) story short, I finally decided to get into reefing. My wife says I have a real problem with getting very bored very quickly, unless something occupies my...

So I just got into the reefing hobby about 4 months ago and decided I would share my story, successes, and most importantly my failures so that anyone new to the hobby also can learn! Starting Out... I love learning and building new things. This is probably the main reason I wanted to get into...

Hiii Folks I am having an Idea to go with a new Setup. Take a look on the pic. The price for the glass with low iron glass front and side will be around 1350.- What do you think? Too expensive? Will not work? Bigger glass? Bad? Good? wow? If you guys think good and it could be a wow.. I will...

Hey All, New here and wanted to give a few details! Current tank: Marineland 56 gallon column 2 tunze 6040 Trigger systems emerald 26 sump Sicce return (I forget what model, way too big) 16" SB LED Current build in process: Waterbox platinum 135.4 AIO (being shipped to my LFS for sump...

Hello, I am new to this forum. I will tell you a bit about myself. I am not new to the saltwater tank world but I started again around 8 months ago. I am originally from Venezuela where I used to get my rocks and many stuff from the sea. Now I can't do that since I am not leaving there. My...

Hey all! Pretty excited about this hobby that seemed to come out of nowehere for me. I'm moving and with work being done. I figured. Let's put a tank there ! Planning a 120g with a drain underneath and I plan to set up ro in basement and pump it up to main floor where tank is. Anyone...