Hello from Winston Salem NC

[Jeepguy242]

I recently watched a fragging video on Youtube, the guy was cutting some acans, and a chalice with a tile saw, and he had a Reef2Reef.com sign in the backround.

I have a 125 gallon mixed reef, that has been thriving for 2 years now, and before that i have been keeping reef tanks for 10+ years, just found this site, looking forward to discussing things with you guys!!

i currently use Randy holmes Farley's DIY 2 part, and a Kalkwasser reactor, a reef octopus Protien skimmer, and have over 150 gallons of water in my DT.

lighting consists of 3 Lumatek 250 watt ballasts, Reef Optics reflectors, Radium bulbs, with a photopriod that starts at 2pm and goes untill 11pm ( i work night shift, so i like to enjoy the tank at night!

 

[slice]

And Hello back at you from Cary NC!
Welcome to the site!

 

[swannyson7]

Welcome to R2R! Any pics of your tank?

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

HAHA welcome to R2R! Great to have you.

 

[swannyson7]

Sounds like one of Kraylen's vids! Did he by any chance use a cleaver or have a cigarette in one hand during the process?

 

[geckoman2003]

Welcome to R2R. We want to see photos, please.

 

[Jeepguy242]

yep, that was him...

 

[Jeepguy242]

i did a few pics in the show off your stand thread, but i guess i can do them here too.

 

[fsu1dolfan]

Hey JeepGuy - Welcome to Reef2Reef...You got a nice setup and great looking picture!! So what kind of livestock do you have?

 

[Jeepguy242]

Hey JeepGuy - Welcome to Reef2Reef...You got a nice setup and great looking picture!! So what kind of livestock do you have?

Hippo tang, engineer goby, mated pair of clowns, mandarin, 2 cleaner shrimp, handfull of pepermint shrimp, 2 sand stars, green brittle star, six line wrasse, scopas tang, queen conch, 45 astrea snails, 11 turbos, 20-30 red leg and blue leg hermits, coral beauty, and a bunch of ora corals (sps acro's) and a couple atl and cornbread trash chalices,

im gonna try and get some close ups of the corals soon, and do a tank thread.

 

[KLR]

Welcome to r2r!

 

[Jeepguy242]

WALKIND DEAD THREAD!!!!!


i guess here is about as good a place to re-introduce myself as any.....

so here is a tank update!!!

posted the last pic of my tank in 2011..... shortly after that picture above, i got laid off, found another job, and started my own business, a gun shop and ammo manufacturing facility in Kernersville NC....

6 years of working 2 jobs, and several changes to the tank.... trying to keep up with being a single father of 2 daughters, and basically life happens...


here is the sad state of the tank today.....

most of the corals died in a kalk incident that happened around 3 years ago when my ATO failed from neglect....

being discouraged and extremely busy i just did barely enough to keep the tank from crashing.... then the hair algae set in.... got that under control, and started doing better maintenance..... still busy and discouraged, i didn't pay as much attention to the tank as i should have.... and the skimmer quit........ again with the hair algae....

now i have shut down the business, and i am finally making more money at my new job than both the business and the job i got laid off from, i decided to get the tank back in shape.....


new skimmer pump, cleaned out al the detritus from the sump, took out some rock and got rid of the mushrooms that literally took over... found a new LFS in my area, and declared war on the tank.....


updates to follow....

 

[Marlon2024]

Very cool looking forward to updates