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Hello, everyone. My name is Joe, I'm 26, and finally re-entering the hobby after 12 years. I had many tanks growing up (many were unsuccessful) and I pretty much did not know what I was doing. I didn't put in the time or effort I should've as a young teen to maintain the health of the tank and often lost livestock as a result which discouraged me from continuing. Plus, my parents weren't thrilled having something routinely die off. But, now that it's my money on the line, I suppose there's incentive to do better this time. So far, so good!

I setup a 150 gallon mixed reef in July. Slowly added hardy fish for the first few weeks and then started adding coral at 8 weeks. Just got done adding some LPS and a large Ritteri Anemone this past week. Also finally got an ATO, which has made life sssooo much easier. Here's what I got running:

Tank: Marineland 150g (48" x 24" x 31")
Sump: Pro Clear Aquatic Systems 45g w/ x3 filter socks + custom refugium (chaeto)
Skimmer: Reef Octopus Classic 150INT
Lighting: x3 Vipar Spectra 165w units w/ lenses removed + x1 Fluval Marine LED 3.0 (for color)
Flow: x2 Hydor Koralia Evolutions 1500gph facing each other
ATO: DIGITen in a 5g reservoir

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Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

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Hello, everyone. My name is Joe, I'm 26, and finally re-entering the hobby after 12 years. I had many tanks growing up (many were unsuccessful) and I pretty much did not know what I was doing. I didn't put in the time or effort I should've as a young teen to maintain the health of the tank and often lost livestock as a result which discouraged me from continuing. Plus, my parents weren't thrilled having something routinely die off. But, now that it's my money on the line, I suppose there's incentive to do better this time. So far, so good!

I setup a 150 gallon mixed reef in July. Slowly added hardy fish for the first few weeks and then started adding coral at 8 weeks. Just got done adding some LPS and a large Ritteri Anemone this past week. Also finally got an ATO, which has made life sssooo much easier. Here's what I got running:

Tank: Marineland 150g (48" x 24" x 31")
Sump: Pro Clear Aquatic Systems 45g w/ x3 filter socks + custom refugium (chaeto)
Skimmer: Reef Octopus Classic 150INT
Lighting: x3 Vipar Spectra 165w units w/ lenses removed + x1 Fluval Marine LED 3.0 (for color)
Flow: x2 Hydor 1500gph facing each other
ATO: DIGITen in a 5g reservoir

F2F8D836-1A99-4708-AF05-CC35B973B09A.jpeg F062DC85-1983-47AF-8E9A-0CEDD6D3212A.jpeg
Welcome joe,
Great looking tank
Sounds like you're having fun!
 
hi welcome to the reef going to love it here!!
lots of fun/info/fun/help/fun...
 

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