I feel like it is time for a build thread. Here's the boring part. I started keeping freshwater tanks 42 years ago (1980-ish). I pretty much always had a freshwater tank for the next 20 years, and then I got out.
Freddie the firefish was my first saltwater fish ever. In 2018, I decided to get back into aquaria. I did a little bit of exploring, and quickly discovered that technology and equipment advances had made keeping saltwater a whole lot more attainable than it was in the old days. I went for it. Look at my older posts to see my 12 month journey with a 32 gallon Biocube dry rock, death box, algae farm that ultimately sprang a leak and led to a swift journey back to the bench.
I do not want to bash CoralLife, they stood behind their product and sent a free replacement even though I had voided the warranty by using a non-CoralLife stand. They are a good company. I never opened the box and sold it. I was too unhappy remembering that day I carried two 5 gallon buckets of rocks and water and livestock into the LFS to surrender them. They were refugees. Thanks to the LFS they had somewhere to go.
4 years later. I had the itch again. My wife was like "Whaaaaaaat?". But she was very supportive even while reminding me of the previous catastrophe. Which leads us to June of 2022. I had licked my wounds and learned a lot along the way.
Ocean Live Rock! This is the way.
Freddie the firefish was my first saltwater fish ever. In 2018, I decided to get back into aquaria. I did a little bit of exploring, and quickly discovered that technology and equipment advances had made keeping saltwater a whole lot more attainable than it was in the old days. I went for it. Look at my older posts to see my 12 month journey with a 32 gallon Biocube dry rock, death box, algae farm that ultimately sprang a leak and led to a swift journey back to the bench.
I do not want to bash CoralLife, they stood behind their product and sent a free replacement even though I had voided the warranty by using a non-CoralLife stand. They are a good company. I never opened the box and sold it. I was too unhappy remembering that day I carried two 5 gallon buckets of rocks and water and livestock into the LFS to surrender them. They were refugees. Thanks to the LFS they had somewhere to go.
4 years later. I had the itch again. My wife was like "Whaaaaaaat?". But she was very supportive even while reminding me of the previous catastrophe. Which leads us to June of 2022. I had licked my wounds and learned a lot along the way.
Ocean Live Rock! This is the way.
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