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xREEFINaintEZx · Aug 25, 2016

Hello REEF2REEF, my name is George. I live in silver spring, MD. Been reading tons, ready to post. Long story short, A buddie of mine was moving around six months ago and could not take his 75 gal bow front. Now being the proud new owner, I gets tons of great info from here.
Tank stats.
• 75 gallon DT.
• 20 gal SUMP.
• 50-60 LBS. LIVrock.
• 2x Reef Breeder Superlux LEDs
• Excalibur skimmer
• Salinity 1.26 @ 78 degrees
• 1 inch sand bed
Inhabitants
• Yellow Tang
• Blue yellow tail damsel
• 3x blue damsels
• Royal gramma
• Purple dottyback
• 3x orbic cardinals
• 2x pajama cardinals
• Sunset anthias
• 2x banggai cardinalfish
• Six line wrasse
• Black Ocellaris (moved to QT after being advised by previous owner. Attacked yellow tang.)
• 2x zebra hermits.
• 10x red dwarf hermits
• Black shortspin Urchin

jsker · Aug 25, 2016

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef George. I also have the bowl front, great tanks

steve&mari · Aug 25, 2016

Welcome and show it off with pictures lol. Hopefully you enjoy it here.

dbl · Aug 25, 2016

Welcome to R2R and your new addiction George. Might I suggest starting a build thread and sharing some pictures of what sounds like a great setup.

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/member-tanks.52/

melypr1985 · Aug 25, 2016

Welcome to R2R! Great to have you!

BummersReef · Aug 25, 2016

First of all - WELCOME. This is the best place and you will be able to get a great deal of help and advice and encouragement.
Second - whaaoooow ... you got a lot of stuff all at once! do you have prior saltwater experience - reef/fish keeping?
- is everything up and running now? if so, how long has it been running? Hats off to you big time if you were able to keep all that livestock alive after a move!!
When we were first deciding on getting a tank, we came so close to buying a system that was all set up like yours with fish etc.... But looking back now, so glad we did not as there was so much we didn't understand and we would have never been able to keep a bunch of fish alive.
show us a photo ....we love pictures! :)

kschweer · Aug 25, 2016

Welcome!!!

Shep · Aug 25, 2016

Welcome to the community! Always great to see locals on here!

xREEFINaintEZx · Aug 25, 2016

BummersReef said:
First of all - WELCOME. This is the best place and you will be able to get a great deal of help and advice and encouragement.
Second - whaaoooow ... you got a lot of stuff all at once! do you have prior saltwater experience - reef/fish keeping?
- is everything up and running now? if so, how long has it been running? Hats off to you big time if you were able to keep all that livestock alive after a move!!
When we were first deciding on getting a tank, we came so close to buying a system that was all set up like yours with fish etc.... But looking back now, so glad we did not as there was so much we didn't understand and we would have never been able to keep a bunch of fish alive.
show us a photo ....we love pictures! :)

THANK YOU! Sorry for grammar No prior experience. Its was interesting to say the least. So it was only about 10-15 miles down the road. Arrived 9AM, Broke everything down and drained the tank to buckets and trash cans. 3 hours later everything was in two pick up trucks pulling into my driveway. Set it up and refilled the water working on rock work into the late night. The only big headaches were Replacing the leaky overflow bulkhead, aiptasia, cyano, and just lack of knowledge about Mag, Alk, Calc, phos, and other parameters and how they work with/against each other. NOTHING DIED... in month 4 however i did lost a astrea Snail... no idea

BummersReef · Aug 25, 2016

xREEFINaintEZx said:
THANK YOU! Sorry for grammar No prior experience. Its was interesting to say the least. So it was only about 10-15 miles down the road. Arrived 9AM, Broke everything down and drained the tank to buckets and trash cans. 3 hours later everything was in two pick up trucks pulling into my driveway. Set it up and refilled the water working on rock work into the late night. The only big headaches were Replacing the leaky overflow bulkhead, aiptasia, cyano, and just lack of knowledge about Mag, Alk, Calc, phos, and other parameters and how they work with/against each other. NOTHING DIED... in month 4 however i did lost a astrea Snail... no idea

wow. will refer people to you when I see a post about "how to move a reef tank without losing stuff"
and I bet you learned all kinds of things in a hurry, things most people learn slowly
great job!