Hello there you guys!
I hope you all are safe and enjoying your home reef as much as possible giving our current global situation.
I wanted to introduce myself as am new in the salt water hobby. I come from 7 years with Fresh water and thought this was the time to make my way into this amazing new world of opportunities. I started back in April with my 160 gallon and bought everything right from the bat at BRS since they gave me the inspiration and pushed to make the jump. I got (2) MP40, (3) 32HD AI, Redsea 300 skimmer, Jebao 1500 return Pump, Tunze ATO system and battery pack for emergency power outage. I know that perhaps i didn't need all that from the beginning but i learned that eventually i was going to go for the high end and just saved time money now than later on expending even more.
I started with dry rock but learned the hard way that nothing good in reefing comes fast. I started adding fish and coral after 4-5 weeks letting the tank get cycled and it appears that i added way to many fish too fast and there wasn't enough good bacteria to handled the load so the tank got nasty. I lost many fish at the beginning until one day i lost them all. it wasn't a power outage but it appears one of the latest fish i got had a parasite and killed everybody in a matter of a week. i lost almost 600 in fish so thats my fault completely.
I did a water change and let the tank fish-less for 6 weeks to let whatever it was to die since there was no host. i have now decided the rock structures that i got are not efficient in keeping the bottom of the tank space to allow flow so am now changing the entire rock structure little by little to give time for the beneficial bacteria to reestablish in the new rocks. I am going with archers since they are pretty nice to aquascape with and leave space for the fish to move around freely,
i hope to learn more with you guys here and if you have any tips or advise please by all means. Also not sure how to upload a picture, it gives me an error every-time. i wanted to show my tank
Thank you all ! Happy reefing.
I hope you all are safe and enjoying your home reef as much as possible giving our current global situation.
I wanted to introduce myself as am new in the salt water hobby. I come from 7 years with Fresh water and thought this was the time to make my way into this amazing new world of opportunities. I started back in April with my 160 gallon and bought everything right from the bat at BRS since they gave me the inspiration and pushed to make the jump. I got (2) MP40, (3) 32HD AI, Redsea 300 skimmer, Jebao 1500 return Pump, Tunze ATO system and battery pack for emergency power outage. I know that perhaps i didn't need all that from the beginning but i learned that eventually i was going to go for the high end and just saved time money now than later on expending even more.
I started with dry rock but learned the hard way that nothing good in reefing comes fast. I started adding fish and coral after 4-5 weeks letting the tank get cycled and it appears that i added way to many fish too fast and there wasn't enough good bacteria to handled the load so the tank got nasty. I lost many fish at the beginning until one day i lost them all. it wasn't a power outage but it appears one of the latest fish i got had a parasite and killed everybody in a matter of a week. i lost almost 600 in fish so thats my fault completely.
I did a water change and let the tank fish-less for 6 weeks to let whatever it was to die since there was no host. i have now decided the rock structures that i got are not efficient in keeping the bottom of the tank space to allow flow so am now changing the entire rock structure little by little to give time for the beneficial bacteria to reestablish in the new rocks. I am going with archers since they are pretty nice to aquascape with and leave space for the fish to move around freely,
i hope to learn more with you guys here and if you have any tips or advise please by all means. Also not sure how to upload a picture, it gives me an error every-time. i wanted to show my tank
Thank you all ! Happy reefing.
