reeffin
New Member
I live in Lillian, Alabama which is across the bay from the Pensacola Florida area and I just got back into the hobby. I knew a lot had changed in the fifteen years since I had been away so you could say that I am back to newbie status. With that said the internet if my friend and between Reef2Reef and BRSTV on YouTube I have learned a lot in a short time. So lets get to the usual questions:
I have started off small with a nano tank as a friend with a freshwater BioCube 29 had an extra one sitting in their garage and just gave it to me. I had to buy the new BioCube 32 hood and because this hood came with a hinge that wasn't on the original tank I had to make my own. I bought some clear acrylic and with a band saw, drill, J.B. Weld, and an half inch aluminum rod I made my own.
I bought an InTank media and a fuge basket. The tank water enters the first chamber of the back wall refugium where I have my heater and BioCube protein skimmer (nothing else will fit). Water spills over to the fuge basket where I have filter floss at the top and chemi-clean elite, then Purigen at the bottom ( knowledge from Thomas at BRSTV ). Then to the media fuge basket where I have Cheato being hit with a Nano Glo magnetic light to light up the refugium ( had to scrape off the black glass paint ). I have some copepods from Algaebarn living in the Cheato having a good ole time. This chamber flows into the last chamber where I have my pump that is connected to a UV light and back into the viewable tank.
My sub-strait is Pensacola sand taken near the dunes away from the tide line. I wanted local sand but bleached of any nasties from the shore line and this seems to have worked out fine. I bought some AquaScapes rocks for the fish to hide in and corals to perch on.
For fish I purchased a pair of percula clownfish, a blue hippo tang, lemon damsel, and a cleaner shrimp. For corals I have a Kenya tree, Toadstool Leather, Finger leather to fill out the tank along with LPS Blastomussa Merletti and one head of a Pineapple Brain coral.
I also purchased a Bulk Reef Supply 5 stage deluxe RO/DI system and I am using Tropic Marine salt. I had bought some live rock early on from a local store, hoping to introduce coralline algae into my tank, but realizing that it included bristle worms, a gorilla crab and aiptasia, I removed it quickly. Now I have some pink and purple coralline algae kit from ARC Reef on the way.
Let me know if you want to know anything else. Happy reefing!
I have started off small with a nano tank as a friend with a freshwater BioCube 29 had an extra one sitting in their garage and just gave it to me. I had to buy the new BioCube 32 hood and because this hood came with a hinge that wasn't on the original tank I had to make my own. I bought some clear acrylic and with a band saw, drill, J.B. Weld, and an half inch aluminum rod I made my own.
I bought an InTank media and a fuge basket. The tank water enters the first chamber of the back wall refugium where I have my heater and BioCube protein skimmer (nothing else will fit). Water spills over to the fuge basket where I have filter floss at the top and chemi-clean elite, then Purigen at the bottom ( knowledge from Thomas at BRSTV ). Then to the media fuge basket where I have Cheato being hit with a Nano Glo magnetic light to light up the refugium ( had to scrape off the black glass paint ). I have some copepods from Algaebarn living in the Cheato having a good ole time. This chamber flows into the last chamber where I have my pump that is connected to a UV light and back into the viewable tank.
My sub-strait is Pensacola sand taken near the dunes away from the tide line. I wanted local sand but bleached of any nasties from the shore line and this seems to have worked out fine. I bought some AquaScapes rocks for the fish to hide in and corals to perch on.
For fish I purchased a pair of percula clownfish, a blue hippo tang, lemon damsel, and a cleaner shrimp. For corals I have a Kenya tree, Toadstool Leather, Finger leather to fill out the tank along with LPS Blastomussa Merletti and one head of a Pineapple Brain coral.
I also purchased a Bulk Reef Supply 5 stage deluxe RO/DI system and I am using Tropic Marine salt. I had bought some live rock early on from a local store, hoping to introduce coralline algae into my tank, but realizing that it included bristle worms, a gorilla crab and aiptasia, I removed it quickly. Now I have some pink and purple coralline algae kit from ARC Reef on the way.
Let me know if you want to know anything else. Happy reefing!
