happyhourhero
Burner of the Tips
Welcome to the next chapter of my reef!
I first got into the hobby back in 2005 when I started a 58 gallon mixed reef while in college. I started with a box of Kaelini live rock from Premium Aquatics and some power compact lights and was pretty much hooked for good. I ran this tank for a couple of years and then one night my roommate had some people over and they dumped all the food I had into the tank while I was asleep and when I woke up, the tank looked like someone poured milk into it and almost everything was dead. I left the hobby for almost 10 years and got back into it when my wife suggested I try again.
I took over a hobby exit 56 gallon tank and took this path: 56 > 65 > 100 > renovated a house and left the hobby for about a year > 25 lagoon > built a shed that is now my office > 150 gallon. I traded my 25 gallon and some cash/frags for this tank from a local reefer who is moving and couldn’t take the big tank.
Current tank:
Red Sea Max 650-S
Coral Box Skimmer
Roller Mat
BRS titanium heater x2
ReefBreeders lights
Marinepure spheres from 25g
Livestock: Updated April 9th 2024.
Corals:
Anemones:
Inverts:
Fish:
I took the cluster of acros from the 25 and made it the middle island. I used the same rock powder and thin super glue method to make the other 2 islands. I cut some frags of my favorite corals and placed a couple on the islands so hopefully in a year they will grow out nicely.
Here are a couple pics. We had tuff shed build a 12 x 16 and then we finished it. I reinforced the floors > ran power > added insulation > drywall > flooring > mini split unit for heat and air. I am currently building a deck and awning and once that it done, I’ll post some more pics.
I first got into the hobby back in 2005 when I started a 58 gallon mixed reef while in college. I started with a box of Kaelini live rock from Premium Aquatics and some power compact lights and was pretty much hooked for good. I ran this tank for a couple of years and then one night my roommate had some people over and they dumped all the food I had into the tank while I was asleep and when I woke up, the tank looked like someone poured milk into it and almost everything was dead. I left the hobby for almost 10 years and got back into it when my wife suggested I try again.
I took over a hobby exit 56 gallon tank and took this path: 56 > 65 > 100 > renovated a house and left the hobby for about a year > 25 lagoon > built a shed that is now my office > 150 gallon. I traded my 25 gallon and some cash/frags for this tank from a local reefer who is moving and couldn’t take the big tank.
Current tank:
Red Sea Max 650-S
Coral Box Skimmer
Roller Mat
BRS titanium heater x2
ReefBreeders lights
Marinepure spheres from 25g
Livestock: Updated April 9th 2024.
Corals:
- Cotton Candy torch
- Duncan
- Psammacora
- Garf bonsai
- Bc snipers blue
- Bernardapora
- Pink acan
- Rasta zoas
- Bc blue unnamed
- Seasons greeting monti
- No name Millie
- Bam bam zoas
- Sassy pearl
- Forest fire digi
- Wwc blazing banshee
- Orange acan
- Neon Favia
- Orange acan
- Rainbow hammer
- TSA midnight
- Gonzo blueberry diesel
- Scoly
- Bc blueberry
- TSA bottlebrush
- Bc blue humilis
- Jungle juice zoa
- Grafted monti
- Fruity pebbles monti
- Blue tipped stag
- Mummy eye chalice
- GC Efflorescence
- Arc próximo
- Solar flare
- Tropicana anacropora
- Unnamed acro
- Bc bubblebath unicorn
- Bc chem bomb 2
- Bc cricket spine
- Rainbow splice
- Bc Bohemia
- Bc shockwave
- Green bc
- Unnamed acro
- Orange acan
- Bc skinny love
- Another bc
- Green goblin anacropora
- Oh Oregon tort
- Blue polyp monti
- Yoda Favia
- Tubbs blue zoa
- Elegance coral
- Random Favia
- Bc bonfire
- Pink lemonade
- Wwc Aoi
- Bonsai humilis
- Ice fire monti
- Rainbow monti
- Green Millie
- Yellow submarine Favia
- Splatter hammer
- Hologram hammer
- Wwc purple monsters
- Raja rampage
- TSA princess peach
- Green slimer
- RRC wonderland
- Bc battle stag
- Bc Blueberry lemonade
- No name spath
- Merlin’s staff
- Bc planet earth selago
- Dynamite
- Cherry tree monti
- Skittles cyphastrea
- Rainbow rhodactis
- Purple stylo
- Tan Goñi
- Green Goñi
- Red Goñi
- Florida ricordea
- Bounc shroom
- Rasta torch
- Branching cyphastrea
- Hellfire torch
- JF fox flame
- Bc pearly gates
- Grim reaper zoa
- Wwc Jell-O shot
- Wwc frozen rose
- Jf B33 bomber
- Green austera
- Paletta pink tip
- Paletta blue
- Tubbs stellata monti
- BC Roadrunner
Anemones:
- Rock flower
- Long tentacle
- Pizza
- Nexus joker x 4
- Bright bubble tip (this one has been nearly dead since i got it so idk if it should count)
Inverts:
- Conch
- Random snails
- Peppermint shrimp (at least 1 now)
- Tiger pistol shrimp
- Sea cucumber
- Emerald crab
Fish:
- Powder Brown Tang
- Coral beauty angel
- Scopas tang
- Clownfish (snowflake x 2, Wyoming white 1, Darwin 1)
- Carpenters wrasse
- McCoskers wrasse
- Possum wrasse
- Neon goby
- Chalk bass
- Blue jaw trigger
- Randall’s anthias
- Starry blenny
- Harlequin tusk
- Yellow watchman goby x 2
- Mandarin Goby
I took the cluster of acros from the 25 and made it the middle island. I used the same rock powder and thin super glue method to make the other 2 islands. I cut some frags of my favorite corals and placed a couple on the islands so hopefully in a year they will grow out nicely.
Here are a couple pics. We had tuff shed build a 12 x 16 and then we finished it. I reinforced the floors > ran power > added insulation > drywall > flooring > mini split unit for heat and air. I am currently building a deck and awning and once that it done, I’ll post some more pics.
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