Back Again (for a few years now) after a decade off ....
A quick history:
Undergravel saltwater and freshwater fish only 30G tanks in the 80's ....
Undergravel saltwater Octopus (Vulgaris) tank (30G) in the College Dorm, circa '90-91. (The high water mark).
75G Reef tank in the early married days, circa '99-'05, and then a house move into a 90g where it ran for a few more years.
Another forum popular in the day provides much helpful information.
Then the Dark Ages: Kids, No time, and tank descends into a Cess pool with two clowns until a power outtage of several days wipes them out.
Cess pool gurgles along for for about a decade. Wife glares, but still cannot bring myself to take it all down ...
2018 - The Epiphany - Restart the Reef Tank! Information on this Forum is an added gift, but didn't register until this year.
Covid provides the necessary home time to move everything along and the tanks proliferate ...
2021 - Old 90G is replaced with a smaller Rimless 75G (Thank You Glass Cages for the Tank, road trip, and tour).
Tank #1 is the 75G Reef Tank with 50G sump. Mixed Reef with mostly LPS, Softies, Shrooms, and Montipora.
Two Ocellaris and a Red Stripe
Tank #2 is Frag 14G tank, low-tech. Mostly a shrooms grow out tank right now.
Tank #3 is my daughters 10G, now a macro-algae build and experiment.
Tank #4 is an 75G sump-less FOWLR build in Year #1, and will have Softies, Shrooms, low light corals for added color.
Maroon Clown, Red Stripe, and a Lunare Wrasse. So far so good with these three friends .....
Some will hate the micro bubbles (80's throw-back) and the supplemental overhead light, both of which run for part of each day.
Tank #5 is a 2G, Office shelf tank with cute hermits.
A quick history:
Undergravel saltwater and freshwater fish only 30G tanks in the 80's ....
Undergravel saltwater Octopus (Vulgaris) tank (30G) in the College Dorm, circa '90-91. (The high water mark).
75G Reef tank in the early married days, circa '99-'05, and then a house move into a 90g where it ran for a few more years.
Another forum popular in the day provides much helpful information.
Then the Dark Ages: Kids, No time, and tank descends into a Cess pool with two clowns until a power outtage of several days wipes them out.
Cess pool gurgles along for for about a decade. Wife glares, but still cannot bring myself to take it all down ...
2018 - The Epiphany - Restart the Reef Tank! Information on this Forum is an added gift, but didn't register until this year.
Covid provides the necessary home time to move everything along and the tanks proliferate ...
2021 - Old 90G is replaced with a smaller Rimless 75G (Thank You Glass Cages for the Tank, road trip, and tour).
Tank #1 is the 75G Reef Tank with 50G sump. Mixed Reef with mostly LPS, Softies, Shrooms, and Montipora.
Two Ocellaris and a Red Stripe
Tank #2 is Frag 14G tank, low-tech. Mostly a shrooms grow out tank right now.
Tank #3 is my daughters 10G, now a macro-algae build and experiment.
Tank #4 is an 75G sump-less FOWLR build in Year #1, and will have Softies, Shrooms, low light corals for added color.
Maroon Clown, Red Stripe, and a Lunare Wrasse. So far so good with these three friends .....
Some will hate the micro bubbles (80's throw-back) and the supplemental overhead light, both of which run for part of each day.
Tank #5 is a 2G, Office shelf tank with cute hermits.