My First Saltwater Adventure - 120 Gallon Peninsula

Sebastiancrab · Apr 7, 2020

Hi! Thanks for sharing your story and your tank is amazing. I am just now setting up a 29 gallon and am new to saltwater. But have had freshwater for years! Elaine

dbl · Apr 7, 2020

Elaine123 said:
Hi! Thanks for sharing your story and your tank is amazing. I am just now setting up a 29 gallon and am new to saltwater. But have had freshwater for years! Elaine

Thank you Elaine and welcome to the salty side. You're going to love it.

Johnny Martinez · Apr 24, 2020

WOW!!!! Everything awesome, stand, hood, all of it, great job.

dbl · Apr 24, 2020

Johnny Martinez said:
WOW!!!! Everything awesome, stand, hood, all of it, great job.

Thank you Johnny...I appreciate that. This thread is long due for an update so thanks for the reminder.

boacvh · Jun 9, 2020

Love your thread. And the color on that chromis is amazing! My chromis is just pale.
May I ask what's the name of the fish in your #308?

Sleeping Giant · Jun 9, 2020

dbl said:
Wow...I can't believe it's been three months since I last looked at this thread. I also can't believe it's been three more months of neglect on the tank...lol. I was given two choices...either start taking care of it or get rid of it. I chose the former.

Spent yesterday and this morning scraping the glass...again. Razor blades and time and I can see in the tank again. Really am going to work on not letting it get that bad again.

Siphoned out the cyano off the sand bed and that is my next task - to get things back in order to make that disappear. This is really my first battle with it on this scale. Sure I've had a patch or two, but now that I can see inside again, it's a lot worse than I thought. I need to order some new test kits and reagents as it's been so long most have expired.

Over the last few months, I've started to lose some things and it's 100% my fault due to the neglect. The one that really irks me is I lost my clam. It was kind of the final straw that helped make the decision to get things turned around.

The Gyre's had become a headache to clean so they weren't. I decided a few weeks ago to swap them out for a couple of MP-40's and I finally got around to installing them today. One on both "short" ends of the tank. I also ordered the WXM module for the Apex but haven't bothered with that yet. So for now they are synched running in Reef Crest mode. Baby steps...lol.

I may end up with some extra time on my hands over the next few weeks so we'll see what that may bring. But at least for now, at least from a distance, it's starting to look somewhat decent again.

Looks great

dbl · Jun 9, 2020

boacvh said:
Love your thread. And the color on that chromis is amazing! My chromis is just pale.
May I ask what's the name of the fish in your #308?

Thank you. That is a Pink Spotted Watchman Goby. Bottom dweller with a pretty cool personality. It actually loves to have its picture taken...lol.

dbl · Jun 9, 2020

Sleeping Giant said:
Looks great

Thank you.

boacvh · Jun 9, 2020

dbl said:
Thank you. That is a Pink Spotted Watchman Goby. Bottom dweller with a pretty cool personality. It actually loves to have its picture taken...lol.

LOL. Love how it looks, will keep on my list for future additions!

dbl · Jun 18, 2020

Well although the tank continues under the ignore and neglect regimen, I do have one quick update to share. I ended up with two new fish additions yesterday.

It's been in the works for a while as I wanted to replace the Melanurus I lost several months ago. Since I didn't want it to be lonely during shipping, I also ended up with a Yellow Coris Wrasse as well. They're doing well thus far and although they didn't eat yesterday, they did just eat like pigs when I fed the tank. So that was a good sign.

Don't have pictures in the tank yet as they are still a little skittish and I can't get a decent shot. But I grabbed a couple while acclimating yesterday after delivery.

Super excited and maybe it will motivate me to start taking care of it again...lol.

DiefsReef · Jun 19, 2020

dbl said:
Well although the tank continues under the ignore and neglect regimen, I do have one quick update to share. I ended up with two new fish additions yesterday.

It's been in the works for a while as I wanted to replace the Melanurus I lost several months ago. Since I didn't want it to be lonely during shipping, I also ended up with a Yellow Coris Wrasse as well. They're doing well thus far and although they didn't eat yesterday, they did just eat like pigs when I fed the tank. So that was a good sign.

Don't have pictures in the tank yet as they are still a little skittish and I can't get a decent shot. But I grabbed a couple while acclimating yesterday after delivery.

Super excited and maybe it will motivate me to start taking care of it again...lol.

I really like the Yellow Coris Wrasse

dbl · Jun 19, 2020

DiefsReef said:
I really like the Yellow Coris Wrasse

Thanks...It's a beautiful fish!

dbl · Sep 7, 2020

One final update and it's a sad one...

Finally gave up the ghost and for personal reasons am having to take it down. Figured I'd share one last update before it's drained. Found great homes for the livestock and the final fish was delivered this afternoon.

It's been a great run...

Crabs McJones · Sep 7, 2020

dbl said:
One final update and it's a sad one...

Finally gave up the ghost and for personal reasons am having to take it down. Figured I'd share one last update before it's drained. Found great homes for the livestock and the final fish was delivered this afternoon.

It's been a great run...

Sleeping Giant · Sep 7, 2020

Flippers4pups · Sep 7, 2020

Gods speed David. I want to thank you for your help during these years of me being on REEF2REEF. You were a mentor in some ways. I truly want to thank you for what you’ve done for me. God bless you!

Crabs McJones · Sep 7, 2020

Flippers4pups said:
Gods speed David. I want to thank you for your help during these years of me being on REEF2REEF. You were a mentor in some ways. I truly want to thank you for what you’ve done for me. God bless you!

Very VERY well said

He was able to put up with me when I became a mod. I asked a bunch of questions and he was able to deal with me

dbl · Oct 1, 2020

@revhtree - Here is your update. But it's more of an update on needing to patch the wall and baseboard and figure out what to do with all the receptacles. Two dedicated circuits going to nothing...lol.

Nanorock1970 · Oct 1, 2020

dbl said:
@revhtree - Here is your update. But it's more of an update on needing to patch the wall and baseboard and figure out what to do with all the receptacles. Two dedicated circuits going to nothing...lol.

Well, when the tank goes, you have to do something with the space....Looks like some new baseboard is in need to go with the wall repair....Hoping to see you with a new tank in the near future!!

GoVols · Oct 8, 2020

Flippers4pups said:
Gods speed David. I want to thank you for your help during these years of me being on REEF2REEF. You were a mentor in some ways. I truly want to thank you for what you’ve done for me. God bless you!

Ditto, Don

David,
Fully understand you have to follow your heart.

You have meant so much to all of us in too many ways to mention.

Thanks so much for being a wonderful friend.

Freddie