Nice work. Welcome back to the hobby.
Return to Reef Tank after 6 years
Well after nearly 6 years, I've returned to the saltwater hobby! Here is my new setup with some pics.
65g, 70lbs of LR, 4" sand bed, eshopps sump w/ bioballs, carbon and filter pad, eshopps S120 skimmer, two sicce voyager 3 powerheads, RIO return pump, a wavepoint retrofit 4-bulb T5 fixture (need to replace bulbs w/ ATI bulbs) and a marineland led strip light used for moonlights.
Livestock includes 1 sailfin tang, 2 false percs, 1 coral banded shrimp (which I hate and want to get rid of because he is too aggressive), 4 mexican turbo snails, 8 astrea snails, 10 bumblebee snails, 5 blue leg hermit crabs, 1 emerald green crab.
Corals/anemones include a hammerhead, green star polyps, blue mushroom, blue xenia, two different types of birdsnest frags (blue and pink toward top of tank!), a sebae anemone, flames of hell lepastea coral and a leather coral w/ waving polyps (not very colorful but nice and peaceful).
The tank, stand, canopy, sump, water, sand, clownfish, coral banded shrimp and heater came from a craigslist add from a gentleman who was selling his fish only tank after having it established for 3 plus years. After it was all moved to my house, I purchased 70lbs of LR from a guy breaking down his reef tank after 5 plus years and he also sold the hammerhead and sailfin tang. I had to T5 fixture, powerheads and skimmer online. I've been adding coral frags slowly over the last two months. There really was no "cycle" per se since everything came from long established tanks. This is the two month anniversary of my new reef tank!
65g, 70lbs of LR, 4" sand bed, eshopps sump w/ bioballs, carbon and filter pad, eshopps S120 skimmer, two sicce voyager 3 powerheads, RIO return pump, a wavepoint retrofit 4-bulb T5 fixture (need to replace bulbs w/ ATI bulbs) and a marineland led strip light used for moonlights.
Livestock includes 1 sailfin tang, 2 false percs, 1 coral banded shrimp (which I hate and want to get rid of because he is too aggressive), 4 mexican turbo snails, 8 astrea snails, 10 bumblebee snails, 5 blue leg hermit crabs, 1 emerald green crab.
Corals/anemones include a hammerhead, green star polyps, blue mushroom, blue xenia, two different types of birdsnest frags (blue and pink toward top of tank!), a sebae anemone, flames of hell lepastea coral and a leather coral w/ waving polyps (not very colorful but nice and peaceful).
The tank, stand, canopy, sump, water, sand, clownfish, coral banded shrimp and heater came from a craigslist add from a gentleman who was selling his fish only tank after having it established for 3 plus years. After it was all moved to my house, I purchased 70lbs of LR from a guy breaking down his reef tank after 5 plus years and he also sold the hammerhead and sailfin tang. I had to T5 fixture, powerheads and skimmer online. I've been adding coral frags slowly over the last two months. There really was no "cycle" per se since everything came from long established tanks. This is the two month anniversary of my new reef tank!
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