So I'm a little late to the Reef2Reef party. Back in 2014 I had recently moved from a condo and purchased a house. At the condo I had a 28 gallon JBJ AIO tank. It was first ever venture into saltwater and I believe I was pretty successful at least in the first year. I built my own sump and plumbed an CPR overflow to it. I ran a small skimmer, deep sand bed, and some macro algae in there. After having it setup for over a year we got hit by a bad storm and knocked our power out for over a week. Between work and a newborn at the time I lost almost everything I had in there. At the time I was ticked and devastated but after we moved I had the itch to go bigger, a lot bigger.
After moving into our house I decided to convert half of our garage to a laundry/mudroom and put in a 150 gallon fish tank I got from a guy who sells stuff from storage units like that show on TV. After planing everything out I decided a 150 gallon wasn't big enough. My LFS had a great deal on a 210 gallon so I purchased that and redid my plans around the tank. A friend of mine had a spare 75 gallon and I decided why not make that a refugium. As I stated before this was back in 2014 and my plan was to document it on here since that is where I got my ideas and inspiration. Well unfortunately I never started a build thread and have always regretted it. In the past few weeks I've been spending a lot of time on here and enjoy talking with others who love this hobby like I do. So I decided I'll just document it now, 6 years later and try to remember what I was thinking at the time. I'm not going to post everything at once but I'll try to get it all on here within the next few weeks. After I explain my journey to the present, I'd like to continue on as I add new things and hopefully someday go even bigger!
After moving into our house I decided to convert half of our garage to a laundry/mudroom and put in a 150 gallon fish tank I got from a guy who sells stuff from storage units like that show on TV. After planing everything out I decided a 150 gallon wasn't big enough. My LFS had a great deal on a 210 gallon so I purchased that and redid my plans around the tank. A friend of mine had a spare 75 gallon and I decided why not make that a refugium. As I stated before this was back in 2014 and my plan was to document it on here since that is where I got my ideas and inspiration. Well unfortunately I never started a build thread and have always regretted it. In the past few weeks I've been spending a lot of time on here and enjoy talking with others who love this hobby like I do. So I decided I'll just document it now, 6 years later and try to remember what I was thinking at the time. I'm not going to post everything at once but I'll try to get it all on here within the next few weeks. After I explain my journey to the present, I'd like to continue on as I add new things and hopefully someday go even bigger!