New to site - bringing 19 years of mistake making knowledge

[Ippyroy]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Welcome

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Welcome.

I think most of us in the hobby have, or will go thru rebuilds. You system looks great. Start a build thread if you like so we can watch the growth. i did it on my 180. have a whole year of change documented for me to look back on.

 

[reef lover]

Welcome to r2r!

 

[William Norman]

Welcome to the party.

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Hi everyone - new to this site. Been in the reef keeping hobby for a little over 19 years (had freshwater fish my entire life)

My current 220, I've had up and running since 2005 - I'm currently going through my 3rd major rebuild with this. I can discuss upgrades and rebuilds from mistakes made along the way...but we'll leave that for another day.

Currently working through a major (and I mean major) majano, flatworm and GHA outbreak. Basically pulled some coral and rock from a local reefer that was getting out of the hobby - and didn't QT what went into my tank. Major lessons learned to say the least.

Here's what the display looked like 5 months ago. And just to show that I will not always show the pretty pictures.

And through part of my 3rd rebuild, where I'm at now.

Here's the display from a couple years ago - before taking on my latest problems.

And the fishroom currently - black trashcan is holding the last of the rock going through treatment for majano and GHA.

Also, my Digital Aquatics system went bad - of course with them out of business, I'm out ~ $1500 in equipement that was tied to it. Just invested in a new APEX Neptune system. Excuse the wiring, as I'm still working on the install.

Specs as follows:
Current tank is a 220 gallon in-wall with 90 gallon sump/fuge
50 gallon RODI holding tank
45 gallon auto salt mixing tank
34 gallon RODI auto top off
40 gallon breeder QT

Equipment as follows:
Reeflo Dart main pump
Precision Kalk reactor
PM Nitrate Reactor
My Reef Creations CR-2 Calcium Reactor
BRS GFO/Carbon Reactor
Phosban Reactor for additional carbon
Modified Vipar Lighting
Modified Reefkeeper Octopus skimmer
IceCap 4K Gyre pumps
Apex Neptune

The clowns I have are over 18 years old - the yellow tank I got just over 16 years ago. So some things do go well.

Outside of the fishies - I have 2 German Shepherds which are great companions...and I'm a little into cars. Typically hang out on various car forums...

Needless - happy to be here. Happy to answer questions if you need a 'what not to do' perspective.

Joe

Welcome to R2R. Hope everything gets back to normal. Nice tanks.

 

[BeejReef]

Impressive