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[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome back to R2R Alissa Tanks look great.

 

[shadow_k]

Welcome to reef2reef !

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Hi everyone -

My name is Alissa and I live in Tampa, FL. I'm a long time lurker...usually in the coral sales. I've gone through a series of tanks and landed where I am now, excited to share with you all. I started with a 20g mini reef and learned A LOT, as I'm sure you can imagine.

I was tipped off on an estate sale that a local saltwater enthusiast was holding and ended up with two 60g cubes, a 125g and his entire inventory of equipment, RODI station, lighting, etc. I've since sold off one of the 60 cubes, but kept the other two tanks for myself. The 60 cube has been my holding tank for all of my original livestock/corals (20g), but also all of the estate sale livestock/coral. I've completed the rock-scape and build out, and the transfer into the 125g mixed reef has started. The 60g will soon be gutted and redone as a Nem/Clown only tank. It has been a journey.

This is AWESOME!!

 

[TnFishwater98]

Hi everyone -

My name is Alissa and I live in Tampa, FL. I'm a long time lurker...usually in the coral sales. I've gone through a series of tanks and landed where I am now, excited to share with you all. I started with a 20g mini reef and learned A LOT, as I'm sure you can imagine.

I was tipped off on an estate sale that a local saltwater enthusiast was holding and ended up with two 60g cubes, a 125g and his entire inventory of equipment, RODI station, lighting, etc. I've since sold off one of the 60 cubes, but kept the other two tanks for myself. The 60 cube has been my holding tank for all of my original livestock/corals (20g), but also all of the estate sale livestock/coral. I've completed the rock-scape and build out, and the transfer into the 125g mixed reef has started. The 60g will soon be gutted and redone as a Nem/Clown only tank. It has been a journey.

Welcome to Da Reef!

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

Great score and great looking tanks!! Welcome and thank you for posting.

 

[PeterC99]

Welcome to R2R!

Great tip - now I’m going to start watching for estate sales of aquarium stuff!

 

[Manny’s Reef]

Hello and welcome to R2R.

 

[G Santana]

Welcome aboard
Nice haul

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Hi everyone -

My name is Alissa and I live in Tampa, FL. I'm a long time lurker...usually in the coral sales. I've gone through a series of tanks and landed where I am now, excited to share with you all. I started with a 20g mini reef and learned A LOT, as I'm sure you can imagine.

I was tipped off on an estate sale that a local saltwater enthusiast was holding and ended up with two 60g cubes, a 125g and his entire inventory of equipment, RODI station, lighting, etc. I've since sold off one of the 60 cubes, but kept the other two tanks for myself. The 60 cube has been my holding tank for all of my original livestock/corals (20g), but also all of the estate sale livestock/coral. I've completed the rock-scape and build out, and the transfer into the 125g mixed reef has started. The 60g will soon be gutted and redone as a Nem/Clown only tank. It has been a journey.

Hi Alissa and Welcome! Glad you joined. I've done estate sales to get my dream birdbath for yard, but it never occurred to me to be stalking them for reef stuff - appreciate the heads up!!!

Have you considered starting your build thread? I found its a great place to document my tank's evolution for myself. Like you, I started tank first then joined, so I'm still finding myself going back collecting pictures & updating historically as well as current state. Once you create your first post in your thread and link it to your account, they will give you build badge (look left, under my ID)

This is a good reference book type online article I still review:

The Supreme Guide To Setting Up A Saltwater Reef Aquarium

This article was sponsored by @MarineDepot at www.marinedepot.com. Introduction The marine environment is one of the most complex systems on the planet. The aquarium you are about to set up is only a tiny sliver of the vast ocean, but it is no...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[SPR1968]

Hi Alissa welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[Schraufabagel]

 

[Frag Farm]

Hi everyone -

My name is Alissa and I live in Tampa, FL. I'm a long time lurker...usually in the coral sales. I've gone through a series of tanks and landed where I am now, excited to share with you all. I started with a 20g mini reef and learned A LOT, as I'm sure you can imagine.

I was tipped off on an estate sale that a local saltwater enthusiast was holding and ended up with two 60g cubes, a 125g and his entire inventory of equipment, RODI station, lighting, etc. I've since sold off one of the 60 cubes, but kept the other two tanks for myself. The 60 cube has been my holding tank for all of my original livestock/corals (20g), but also all of the estate sale livestock/coral. I've completed the rock-scape and build out, and the transfer into the 125g mixed reef has started. The 60g will soon be gutted and redone as a Nem/Clown only tank. It has been a journey.

Welcome to R2R! Your set ups look beautiful!! I started with a 20 Gallon tank too and 25 years later here I am with my own store with multiple 300+ gallon fish tanks!! I'm pretty new to Reef 2 Reef and love meeting new people on here, thanks for sharing. You can email [email protected] for a discount code for our website, which is fragfarmcoral.com.

 

[atomos]

 

[Sean_B]

 

[Kiwi reefer]

Welcome to R2R

 

[JWD57NH]

Hi everyone -

My name is Alissa and I live in Tampa, FL. I'm a long time lurker...usually in the coral sales. I've gone through a series of tanks and landed where I am now, excited to share with you all. I started with a 20g mini reef and learned A LOT, as I'm sure you can imagine.

I was tipped off on an estate sale that a local saltwater enthusiast was holding and ended up with two 60g cubes, a 125g and his entire inventory of equipment, RODI station, lighting, etc. I've since sold off one of the 60 cubes, but kept the other two tanks for myself. The 60 cube has been my holding tank for all of my original livestock/corals (20g), but also all of the estate sale livestock/coral. I've completed the rock-scape and build out, and the transfer into the 125g mixed reef has started. The 60g will soon be gutted and redone as a Nem/Clown only tank. It has been a journey.

That’s awesome… I currently have multiple tanks and I’m trying to decide what each one is going to be for.