What do you consider your greatest achievement in reef keeping?

[Gumbies R Us]

For some people, their greatest achievement when it comes to reef keeping could simply be starting their tank, for others it might be getting livestock in a tank to flourish. I am wondering what to you is your greatest reefing achievement. Curious to see what everyone says!

 

[davidcalgary29]

Discovering my patience.

 

[tmo65]

I bought 10 acro frags and two of them didn’t die.

 

[Tahiti]

I was totally against having to dose as I just thought it was too time consuming. So I just kept up with weekly water changes and didn't attempt to keep SPS. Well I started dosing All for Reef 3 months ago and haven't done a water change since! And I'm able to keep SPS now and my corals are flourishing.

 

[Reef Puncher]

I was totally against having to dose as I just thought it was too time consuming. So I just kept up with weekly water changes and didn't attempt to keep SPS. Well I started dosing All for Reef 3 months ago and haven't done a water change since! And I'm able to keep SPS now and my corals are flourishing.

you dont have to do water changes if you dose?

 

[Paul B]

I think my greatest achievement is starting my tank the week the hobby started in the US and it is still running. I did change the glass 3 times in those 52 years. It will be 53 years old next month.

 

[alain Bouchard]

patience and still having some money left to eat

 

[vlangel]

My greatest achievement from my perspective is raising about 7 clownfish up to juvenile age, when they could be given away and 16 seahorse fry to young adult age (4-5 months) and train them to eat frozen mysis until they could be sold. Both required me to raise live food that was bacteria free and rigorous plus keeping the fry themselves in a very clean environment.

 

[Reefer Matt]

Not sure. I haven’t done anything extraordinary yet. But maybe someday.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I bought 10 acro frags and two of them didn’t die.

Hey, that's still really good!

 

[shakacuz]

my greatest achievement was getting into the hobby. i've found a great sense of peace or serenity when either tinkering with my tank or observing it. granted, doing so, at times i do find myself adding extra stress/concern to myself. like when i continuously find that my hermit crabs keep knocking things over in my tank like my clams, or literally knocking over frags off the frag rack or even off the plug itself, and forcing me to re-glue it lol.

 

[randomfishdude]

Convincing my mom to let me get a personal tank.

 

[Macbalacano]

I only have ~3 years under my belt of reefing, but for now it would be setting up a new tank and having it run successfully due to being able to apply the many lessons I learned on my last one.

 

[Reef Puncher]

my greatest achievement as a pretty new reefer, is fighting off dino and starting to finally win the battle. And so far no coral deaths or fish deaths.

 

[Reef Puncher]

I only have ~3 years under my belt of reefing, but for now it would be setting up a new tank and having it run successfully due to being able to apply the many lessons I learned on my last one.

ohh pretty tank what is that coral in bottom center? its beautiful. is that a an elegance?

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

Selling everything and going back to freshwater.

 

[Macbalacano]

ohh pretty tank what is that coral in bottom center? its beautiful. is that a an elegance?

Thank you for your kind words! It's a trachy

 

[reefnfun]

I raised a T,Gigas clam up to 16". I was proud of that.

 

[mboley]

An Aquarium Frontiers Tank of the Month award way back in May 1998 for my 240 gallon SPS dominated tank. Most colonies were bought from Steve Tyree.

 

[Dburr1014]

20 years ago I had a hard time growing sps into colonies. They would take off and then die.
Now, I have to break them every couple of weeks cuz they grow to fast!