Alan first salty tank

[alan j t]

Hi all.new here and kinda new to the marine hobby. I never owned one before. My tank will be a 72 bow tank, later it wil have tons of rock and ill have easy corals to start.
I work part time at an aquarium store. Hes does mainly marine tanks and fish. I help where i can, and in also go out and maintain aqauriums for him.
Well heres where im at right now.

 

[alan j t]

Im trying to go with the bean animal system. I have enough noise in the house to deal with. So hopefully this system is as quiet as they say. I wasnt sure how big to drill the holes on the cap. So i went with the smallest 1/16. We'll see how it goes

 

[kschweer]

Welcome to R2R!!! For the holes in the caps start small like you have and gradually make them bigger as needed. Best of luck!

 

[Shep]

Welcome! Looks like you are off to a great start

 

[alan j t]

Dude i just did my first water test on this thing. I almost had a heart attack. I thought i was going to flood my fish room. I never did an overflow before.

 

[steelheader.262]

Welcome, looks like a great start.

 

[Tahoe61]

Welcome. :-)

 

[alan j t]

I got a craigslist score a little while ago. Its a 140lbs of dry live rock. So its running in a 55gal drum with some live rock from another source.

 

[alan j t]

Ok tank is running! I used only half the rock that was in the drum. Plus i bought a refractometer for $30 amazon. The salt im using is instant ocean. Probably my next salt purchase is
Reef crytals.

 

[alan j t]

 

[alan j t]

. Just a quick update. I asked the lfs for some easy corals. And i met a fellow salty who was breaking his tank down. I grabbed damels, sailfin, and a red hawkfish. Plus he had some corlas too with some rock too!

 

[alan j t]

 

[cameronh]

Cool man! I like all the dry rock you got awhile back. How's the tank doing so far? Details....etc

 

[alan j t]

Tanks doing good. I received some frogspawn from a fellow salty. Its going fast in this tank. Water changes every 2 weeks with reef crystals.

 

[alan j t]

 

[alan j t]

Another update.i added new lights. Ocean revive leds.i only have them on 30% on the blues and white .the corals are all responding well and looking better too.

 

[alan j t]

 

[alan j t]

 

[alan j t]

My tank is over a year old ....finally.

 

[alan j t]