Had to give up my Reef Tank

Knight420 · Oct 21, 2023

I had to move and the place I moved to didn't have room for my reef tank. I had to leave it behind. I feel like I'm grieving. I miss the tank. I guess eventually I will build another one.

Can you guys help me a bit? Maybe any shared experience where you had to leave a tank behind, but eventually started a new tank. Maybe some nice pics of Zoa gardens and happy fish and crabs?

Seansea · Oct 21, 2023

I had a 150 gal ecwifo (easy corals with fish only) tank for 7 years that i had to sell when i moved 9 years ago. Had 3 fish that were 7 years old and all of them at least 3. Was superbummed.

BUT here i am today with a year old red sea g2.

So hang in there. I see another one in your future.

Ill leave you with a video of my loser crab messin with my zoas

jmichaelh7 · Oct 21, 2023

Just buy a new one brother

coralnutz · Oct 21, 2023

Perhaps a nano tank? Not as great as a bigger tank, but could scratch that itch anyway.

Knight420 · Oct 21, 2023

coralnutz said:
Perhaps a nano tank? Not as great as a bigger tank, but could scratch that itch anyway.

The place I'm at now is temporary. Sometime in the next 6 months I will be moving into a permanent place. I want to get a Fluval 32.5 the one I had to leave was a 13.5. I'm just having to crash on a friend's couch until there is an opening for me to get my place.

Knight420 · Oct 21, 2023

Seansea said:
I had a 150 gal ecwifo (easy corals with fish only) tank for 7 years that i had to sell when i moved 9 years ago. Had 3 fish that were 7 years old and all of them at least 3. Was superbummed.

BUT here i am today with a year old red sea g2.

So hang in there. I see another one in your future.

Ill leave you with a video of my loser crab messin with my zoas

Thank you, seeing that gives me hope. The crab reminds me of my Ruby Crab. He loved messing with my Clove Polyps.

kevgib67 · Oct 21, 2023

After 16 years I got a plague of Neomeris sp. and I lost the battle. In two days my tank will be 2 yo. Here’s a couple pics.

Mangimi · Oct 21, 2023

I've sold my first reef I had from 2007-2011 because I went abroad for a semester, I had a new tank in 2014 which I had to give up since it was in my bedroom and too loud and now I've got a 25g again. Bought a 100g tank but had to sell that because the place I wanted to have it wasn't strong enough.

I believe most things in life happen for a reason and maybe that tank was just too big for my taste? Maybe not enough DIY, maybe no time for it right now. Who knows. Just be patient and do whatever you can at the moment. You could plan your next tank

Kasrift · Oct 21, 2023

Knight420 said:
The place I'm at now is temporary. Sometime in the next 6 months I will be moving into a permanent place. I want to get a Fluval 32.5 the one I had to leave was a 13.5. I'm just having to crash on a friend's couch until there is an opening for me to get my place.

Skip the fluval. I have it, it's thriving, but I hate a lot of things about it, mainly the curved front glass which makes it impossible to clean.

cilyjr · Oct 21, 2023

Been there. Set up my first salt aquarium in 1998 in Rhode Island. Then was permanently running from 2006 to 2018. I moved to California in 2018. Sold the house and had to take down my 180 in wall. And leave my 1000 gallon garden pond behind.

Was in an apartment for a year and I set up a little 40 breeder. Now it's been 5 years we own a new home here and I have my 320 gallon and 2000 gallon pond here!