New to r2r

mckennamichael407 · Jan 14, 2025

I've come across these forms a few times and figured I'd join. I just started a new reef tank after 15 years without one. Nothing special, just a little twenty gallon. My wife and I currently have 5 tanks 4 are fresh water but she wanted a salt water but was series it would be too much for our lifestyles at the moment (4 jobs between the two of us) so I went with a small one to try and work her up to letting us set up a 100gal+.

We currently have a green mandarin dragonet, a black ice snowflake clown, black occellaris clown and a coral beauty angel with some hermits and snails. I'm currently training my madarin to eat frozen foods so I can add a spotted mandarin to this set up (that I so also train to eat frozen, i also add a bottle of copepods every month and just started a seperate 2.5 gallon copepod refugium so they can grow and reproduce without preditors so i can add them freely to the tank without having to continue to buy bottles and give the mandarin options as well as the addition benefits they provide for the tank) and then the fish part will be complete. Coral wise there is nothing but live rock, I just ordered two 3 pack of mystery corals and two spc corals that should arrive by the end of the week.

Sorry for the long thread but I'm looking forward to reading more about other people's set-ups and things they have tried.