Hi Reef 2 Reef!
Some background: I moved three years ago and had to tear down the 120g reef, 40g basement sump, and 40g frag grow-out tank. I attempted to keep a 40g "ark" with frags of everything and the fish (hippo tang, yellow tang, clown, blenny). It worked for about a year while we lived in an apartment and planned our new house build. The final move to the new house did not work. It got ugly really quickly, and I lost everything in about two days. I got pretty discouraged about reefing, and I shelved everything for a solid year before even thinking about about getting back into it.
But I couldn't stay out. All this time, the stand and hood I had built, the lighting, pumps, skimmer were all sitting in the basement just begging me to set them back up. So, about a year ago I started building.
I'll add pictures tonight that should bring us up to date, and then the goal is to keep this thread as a journal.
It all starts with a corner of the basement...
Some background: I moved three years ago and had to tear down the 120g reef, 40g basement sump, and 40g frag grow-out tank. I attempted to keep a 40g "ark" with frags of everything and the fish (hippo tang, yellow tang, clown, blenny). It worked for about a year while we lived in an apartment and planned our new house build. The final move to the new house did not work. It got ugly really quickly, and I lost everything in about two days. I got pretty discouraged about reefing, and I shelved everything for a solid year before even thinking about about getting back into it.
But I couldn't stay out. All this time, the stand and hood I had built, the lighting, pumps, skimmer were all sitting in the basement just begging me to set them back up. So, about a year ago I started building.
I'll add pictures tonight that should bring us up to date, and then the goal is to keep this thread as a journal.
It all starts with a corner of the basement...