FishTankMafia
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What's goodie fellow reefers!
I've never posted on any internet forum before, so bare with me. Over the past couple months I've slowly been setting up a peninsula reef tank - and learning a lot along the way. I bought this thing used (and it's acrylic), so needless to say there was A LOT of stuff to fix. The last owner owned a radio station and had a maintenance company taking care of it, but somewhere along the way stopped having them come by, so the tank deteriorated to a sad place. It had deep scratches all over it, and nasty stuff growing in the overflow and on the rocks. I ended up wet sanding for a solid 15 hours, and then polishing the tank with novus 1,2, & 3 for something like 25 hours. More or less I put at least 40 hours into cleaning up this thing.
I knew nothing about plumbing. I knew nothing about building rock scapes. I knew nothing about RODI systems.
After 7 long weeks I can safely say I am now fluent in all of it.
This tank is going to have a predominant focus on SPS. The only fish I'm dying to keep are (1) Powder Blue Tang, and a school of (5) Lyretail Anthias. My tank is 72"x18"x30" (LxWxH).
Now for some pics..
I've never posted on any internet forum before, so bare with me. Over the past couple months I've slowly been setting up a peninsula reef tank - and learning a lot along the way. I bought this thing used (and it's acrylic), so needless to say there was A LOT of stuff to fix. The last owner owned a radio station and had a maintenance company taking care of it, but somewhere along the way stopped having them come by, so the tank deteriorated to a sad place. It had deep scratches all over it, and nasty stuff growing in the overflow and on the rocks. I ended up wet sanding for a solid 15 hours, and then polishing the tank with novus 1,2, & 3 for something like 25 hours. More or less I put at least 40 hours into cleaning up this thing.
I knew nothing about plumbing. I knew nothing about building rock scapes. I knew nothing about RODI systems.
After 7 long weeks I can safely say I am now fluent in all of it.
This tank is going to have a predominant focus on SPS. The only fish I'm dying to keep are (1) Powder Blue Tang, and a school of (5) Lyretail Anthias. My tank is 72"x18"x30" (LxWxH).
Now for some pics..
