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Hey y'all
Ive recently gotten back in the hobby after taking a couple years off during college. I tried other hobbies like rc drift cars and nitro rc's, I tried glassblowing for a while lol too many airborne dangers. Then I got really into working on my cars again but none of it was as interesting and amazing as keeping salt water fish.
Tank: 75 gallon Aqueon petco sale 50% off
Synergy Reef Shadow Overflow Drilled DIY
Controller: Classic Neptune Apex monitoring Temp, PH, Amps, and ORP.
ATO: Tunze osmolater 3155
Test Equipment: Milwaukee refractometer, Hanna Phosphate checker, Hanna Alkalinity checker, Red sea pro Calcium, Red sea pro Magnesium.
Lights: 400w Radium with Luxcor ballast and Cozumel reflector
Heater: finnex 300w set to 78.5 degress
backup 150w set to 76
Powerheads: Tunze 6065 epic flow
Skimmer: Vertex Omega 130
Return Pump: EcoTech Vectra S1 with battery backup module
Refugium light: Kessil H380 Halo II LED
Salt Philosophy: Instant Ocean for Rock curing, Tank Cycling, and Quarantine Tanks.
Reef crystals for established reef tank
Red Sea Pro for Coral Quarantine
and occasionally Coralife Marine salt for the nice white bucket
Alk and Calcium: BRS Dosing pumps
Magnesium: Manually dose
Food: Reef Roids and Reef Chili for the corals. Spirulina Brine, Mysis shrimp, and spectrum pellets for the Fish
My interest in salt water aquaria began when I was 6 and visited the Monterrey bay aquarium for the first time with my grandparents. It was such a fun trip with my little brother who was 4 at the time and because my grandma was playing 20 questions about our adventure that day and about around question ten I guessed correct. I was so fascinated by all the exhibits, the massive tuna tank, and the seahorses, and the otters just to name a few, and we stayed all day.
After Monterrey I visited the Maui aquarium and sea world during the next couple of years and I knew I wanted an aquarium. It helped alot that my dad is a marine biologist and kept aquariums with his dorm buddies in Melbourne Florida in the 1970's. He told me stories of how they made glass tanks from scraps at the glass store and the made custom under gravel filters. They were seasoned scuba divers and brought home anything they could catch. usually just sergeant major damsels, and gobies.
Then in fifth grade I got a 3 gallon nano with 2 clownfish for christmas because I had been reading some old aquarium books that my dad had. Fast forward to 8th grade and I saved up enough for a 55 gallon. In high school I experimented with keeping soft corals and learned alot.
Then after college I moved to Santa Rosa and rebuilt my great grandparents workshop into my fish room.
Started up again with an old 29gallon I had. Struggled a while until I got an Apex. Then I got a real skimmer, Vertex omega 130.
It was all going really good until the Santa Rosa firestorm started and I had to evacuate in the middle on the night because the power went out and I could see the glow from the fire over the hills. The next 12 days there was no power and all the roads to my house were closed so I couldn't turn on my generator. I felt helpless every day looking at my Apex app and seeing nothing. I was just lucky that my house didnt burn down.
Everything died in the tank so im forced to start over. The week before the fire I had finished drilling the new 75 gallon so now im going to keep on building, this time I will have some backups in place.
I started with the top using a router for the front and side edges. Then stained it with a couple coats of minwax. The cabinet is made of oak and was my great grandparents old kitchen counter, so its pretty strong.
Ive recently gotten back in the hobby after taking a couple years off during college. I tried other hobbies like rc drift cars and nitro rc's, I tried glassblowing for a while lol too many airborne dangers. Then I got really into working on my cars again but none of it was as interesting and amazing as keeping salt water fish.
Tank: 75 gallon Aqueon petco sale 50% off
Synergy Reef Shadow Overflow Drilled DIY
Controller: Classic Neptune Apex monitoring Temp, PH, Amps, and ORP.
ATO: Tunze osmolater 3155
Test Equipment: Milwaukee refractometer, Hanna Phosphate checker, Hanna Alkalinity checker, Red sea pro Calcium, Red sea pro Magnesium.
Lights: 400w Radium with Luxcor ballast and Cozumel reflector
Heater: finnex 300w set to 78.5 degress
backup 150w set to 76
Powerheads: Tunze 6065 epic flow
Skimmer: Vertex Omega 130
Return Pump: EcoTech Vectra S1 with battery backup module
Refugium light: Kessil H380 Halo II LED
Salt Philosophy: Instant Ocean for Rock curing, Tank Cycling, and Quarantine Tanks.
Reef crystals for established reef tank
Red Sea Pro for Coral Quarantine
and occasionally Coralife Marine salt for the nice white bucket
Alk and Calcium: BRS Dosing pumps
Magnesium: Manually dose
Food: Reef Roids and Reef Chili for the corals. Spirulina Brine, Mysis shrimp, and spectrum pellets for the Fish
My interest in salt water aquaria began when I was 6 and visited the Monterrey bay aquarium for the first time with my grandparents. It was such a fun trip with my little brother who was 4 at the time and because my grandma was playing 20 questions about our adventure that day and about around question ten I guessed correct. I was so fascinated by all the exhibits, the massive tuna tank, and the seahorses, and the otters just to name a few, and we stayed all day.
After Monterrey I visited the Maui aquarium and sea world during the next couple of years and I knew I wanted an aquarium. It helped alot that my dad is a marine biologist and kept aquariums with his dorm buddies in Melbourne Florida in the 1970's. He told me stories of how they made glass tanks from scraps at the glass store and the made custom under gravel filters. They were seasoned scuba divers and brought home anything they could catch. usually just sergeant major damsels, and gobies.
Then in fifth grade I got a 3 gallon nano with 2 clownfish for christmas because I had been reading some old aquarium books that my dad had. Fast forward to 8th grade and I saved up enough for a 55 gallon. In high school I experimented with keeping soft corals and learned alot.
Then after college I moved to Santa Rosa and rebuilt my great grandparents workshop into my fish room.
Started up again with an old 29gallon I had. Struggled a while until I got an Apex. Then I got a real skimmer, Vertex omega 130.
It was all going really good until the Santa Rosa firestorm started and I had to evacuate in the middle on the night because the power went out and I could see the glow from the fire over the hills. The next 12 days there was no power and all the roads to my house were closed so I couldn't turn on my generator. I felt helpless every day looking at my Apex app and seeing nothing. I was just lucky that my house didnt burn down.
Everything died in the tank so im forced to start over. The week before the fire I had finished drilling the new 75 gallon so now im going to keep on building, this time I will have some backups in place.
I started with the top using a router for the front and side edges. Then stained it with a couple coats of minwax. The cabinet is made of oak and was my great grandparents old kitchen counter, so its pretty strong.
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