Just a short explanation on the reboot before I get into the tank thread. I few years ago I got into collecting chalices , zoas, palys, and sps. I mean a lot of us have at some point right or we wouldn't be here. Well with changing jobs, changes in life, and moving several times it was hard to keep a large reef tank going the why I would like. I am sure plenty of us have been here as well. I downgraded to a small AIO and the only kept a few things, my fish and my Colorado Sunburst nem I purchased from cherry corals when macna was in florida. Well finally got situated where I could reef again and I am itching for a larger tank once again but first wanted to get my poor AIO which had been neglected to be a nice mini reef before beginning another project.
Many livestock photos will come in time to catch up on what I have in here but for now here is current equipment list and a progression of tank shots to catch up on where I am at now.
Lighting: Ecotech Radion Gen 1 ( this is from my old setup and on my list to upgrade I did some mods upgraded the lenses, pucks, diffuser but Gen4 pro is THE next upgrade.
Filtration: I have setup up Biological, Mechanical, and Chemical.
Biological: I have an intank media rack that is now just full of chaeto lit with a IM Chaetomax.
Mechanical: I have a Tunze DOC 9004 skimmer.
Chemical: I have a IM minimax midsize.
Flow: return is a rio 6hf and a mp10
Dosing: calcium and alk by a grotech doser that I won at the macna raffle
control: apex jr with an old eb8 that I had from an old apex lite.
ato is a tunze osmolator.
Feeding: For the fish PE mysis or Rods food. For my coral I used to used fauna marin chalice and zoanthus buy I recently started reefroids from polyplab and love the stuff I also started dosing their genesis as well.
OK, picture time. Now keep in mind that the first pics didn't really have any of the current filtration that I have now.
I had to dig through the phone for this I kept 2 clowns my sunburst and a banggai cardinalfish from my old setup and that was it for livestock. Didn't even bother to take a decent picture back then either and the first several pics demonstrate that.
After some time the ability to enjoy the hobby the way I like started to improve and hey I started looking at REEF2REEF again and what do you know? I live sale was going on and I couldn't help to buy a few additions.
Well at this point I started taking better care of my tank and I added the tunze skimmer.
I don't know if this caused the split but now I had two sunbursts again.
Well this made me want to add more livestock and it just so happened a friend of mine was breaking down a tank and gave me a few frags. Nothing fancy just some frogspawn and candycane coral. I was happy just wanted a nice looking tank. I was telling myself I wont collect again ......
Many livestock photos will come in time to catch up on what I have in here but for now here is current equipment list and a progression of tank shots to catch up on where I am at now.
Lighting: Ecotech Radion Gen 1 ( this is from my old setup and on my list to upgrade I did some mods upgraded the lenses, pucks, diffuser but Gen4 pro is THE next upgrade.
Filtration: I have setup up Biological, Mechanical, and Chemical.
Biological: I have an intank media rack that is now just full of chaeto lit with a IM Chaetomax.
Mechanical: I have a Tunze DOC 9004 skimmer.
Chemical: I have a IM minimax midsize.
Flow: return is a rio 6hf and a mp10
Dosing: calcium and alk by a grotech doser that I won at the macna raffle
control: apex jr with an old eb8 that I had from an old apex lite.
ato is a tunze osmolator.
Feeding: For the fish PE mysis or Rods food. For my coral I used to used fauna marin chalice and zoanthus buy I recently started reefroids from polyplab and love the stuff I also started dosing their genesis as well.
OK, picture time. Now keep in mind that the first pics didn't really have any of the current filtration that I have now.
I had to dig through the phone for this I kept 2 clowns my sunburst and a banggai cardinalfish from my old setup and that was it for livestock. Didn't even bother to take a decent picture back then either and the first several pics demonstrate that.
After some time the ability to enjoy the hobby the way I like started to improve and hey I started looking at REEF2REEF again and what do you know? I live sale was going on and I couldn't help to buy a few additions.
Well at this point I started taking better care of my tank and I added the tunze skimmer.
I don't know if this caused the split but now I had two sunbursts again.
Well this made me want to add more livestock and it just so happened a friend of mine was breaking down a tank and gave me a few frags. Nothing fancy just some frogspawn and candycane coral. I was happy just wanted a nice looking tank. I was telling myself I wont collect again ......