Beach House
New Member
Hey there, this is my first post... anywhere... ever!
So, we live in Florida and have a Red Sea 650 Peninsula. We moved into a really cool house 2 years ago and wanted an awesome tank to greet us (and guests) as we enter the house. Long story short, we have achieved that... but. We started thinking we were going to use a 150 gal acrylic tank that was given to us. It had scratches which I was in the process of buffing out, when on a trip over to Orlando, we visited Mecca (aka WWC) and saw one of their Red Sea tanks for sale. My wife said get rid of that acrylic thing, we're getting one of those. That was the best really expensive decision we could have made. Fast forward after a lot of work we are struggling with keeping any coral other than palys or zoas or gsp's or xenias alive. I plan to do a build thread to show off what we have done right and get suggestions on what we have done not so right.
History: I met my now wife in 2011 in Jacksonville, FL and we started our first tank in 2012. It was a 30 gal that we filled with ocean water and live sand I got from across the street. Oh, that tank was free, too. And yes, I can be a cheap SOB! We quickly graduated to a 55 gal ,then to a 90 gal. I then got a job that required me to move to NJ. I sold the tank and most of my equipment. We missed reefing big time and was able to move back south and start back up. This time we decided to not be cheap suns-o-beaches. So here we are, hair algea running wild and corals not doing so well, but we'll get there, with a little help from our new friends here at R2R.
Here's the before and after... More on that in our build post, but bottom line is this is our dream tank, we just want the contents to be a dream.
What is that? Roman columns in Florida? Uhhhh, no!
It went from a wet bar to a wet bar
So, we live in Florida and have a Red Sea 650 Peninsula. We moved into a really cool house 2 years ago and wanted an awesome tank to greet us (and guests) as we enter the house. Long story short, we have achieved that... but. We started thinking we were going to use a 150 gal acrylic tank that was given to us. It had scratches which I was in the process of buffing out, when on a trip over to Orlando, we visited Mecca (aka WWC) and saw one of their Red Sea tanks for sale. My wife said get rid of that acrylic thing, we're getting one of those. That was the best really expensive decision we could have made. Fast forward after a lot of work we are struggling with keeping any coral other than palys or zoas or gsp's or xenias alive. I plan to do a build thread to show off what we have done right and get suggestions on what we have done not so right.
History: I met my now wife in 2011 in Jacksonville, FL and we started our first tank in 2012. It was a 30 gal that we filled with ocean water and live sand I got from across the street. Oh, that tank was free, too. And yes, I can be a cheap SOB! We quickly graduated to a 55 gal ,then to a 90 gal. I then got a job that required me to move to NJ. I sold the tank and most of my equipment. We missed reefing big time and was able to move back south and start back up. This time we decided to not be cheap suns-o-beaches. So here we are, hair algea running wild and corals not doing so well, but we'll get there, with a little help from our new friends here at R2R.
Here's the before and after... More on that in our build post, but bottom line is this is our dream tank, we just want the contents to be a dream.
What is that? Roman columns in Florida? Uhhhh, no!
It went from a wet bar to a wet bar
