Hello,
I have read several posts on this forum in trying to address my attempts to keep a reef aquarium.
I am an experienced freshwater fish keeper and have raised just about every normal freshwater species and some of the exotics. I have kept salt off and on over that period of time in small fashion. I have been into fish for about 25 years.
However, my nemesis has been reef keeping. I will be honest in that my attempts, two of them, have been half hearted and with complete lack of proper equipment. I hope to change that with the help people on here.
My goal: I have a 100 gallon glass aquarium that I want to make a reef system out of. It is a weird older size 18X18X72. I have been told this should make a good reef system tank especially due to its shallower depth. But before I jump in I want this aquarium to have all it needs to be a top notch tank. Basically I have a clean slate. I do have power head units for it, 2 Seio 2600s. I also have a single SB Reef Light Basic 16 unit that will do temporary duty on my other aquarium but that in a minute. I would like to have this tank concentrated with live rock and corral on the two ends with free swimming space in the middle. The wife and I like small fish such as coral beauties and flame angles, blue tang and lemon peel tangs, gobies, mandarins ect. The other thing we would like to do is make our refugium tank a show piece in its own right next to the main tank and grow mangroves or other plants and make it more than just a sump.
Right now we have a 29 gallon that is more or less just running to keep us interested and motivated. It has about 15lbs of live rock and about 15 pounds of dead rock (former live rock from a previous failed attempt). We hope in the interim to get that 15 lbs of dead rock reseeded again. We have 10 pounds of live sand on a bed of about 3-4 inches of dead sand. Same thing want to seed that. In that tank is a 12" snowflake eel, a tomato clown, and two small damsels.
On a final note I am a Do It Yourselfer and want to make as much as I can. I also love the science of it all as much as the actual keeping so creating a complete biosystem is a big interest to me.
I will be asking a lot of questions and making a lot of mistakes a long the way but with the help here I hope to finally join the ranks of successful reef keepers.
I have read several posts on this forum in trying to address my attempts to keep a reef aquarium.
I am an experienced freshwater fish keeper and have raised just about every normal freshwater species and some of the exotics. I have kept salt off and on over that period of time in small fashion. I have been into fish for about 25 years.
However, my nemesis has been reef keeping. I will be honest in that my attempts, two of them, have been half hearted and with complete lack of proper equipment. I hope to change that with the help people on here.
My goal: I have a 100 gallon glass aquarium that I want to make a reef system out of. It is a weird older size 18X18X72. I have been told this should make a good reef system tank especially due to its shallower depth. But before I jump in I want this aquarium to have all it needs to be a top notch tank. Basically I have a clean slate. I do have power head units for it, 2 Seio 2600s. I also have a single SB Reef Light Basic 16 unit that will do temporary duty on my other aquarium but that in a minute. I would like to have this tank concentrated with live rock and corral on the two ends with free swimming space in the middle. The wife and I like small fish such as coral beauties and flame angles, blue tang and lemon peel tangs, gobies, mandarins ect. The other thing we would like to do is make our refugium tank a show piece in its own right next to the main tank and grow mangroves or other plants and make it more than just a sump.
Right now we have a 29 gallon that is more or less just running to keep us interested and motivated. It has about 15lbs of live rock and about 15 pounds of dead rock (former live rock from a previous failed attempt). We hope in the interim to get that 15 lbs of dead rock reseeded again. We have 10 pounds of live sand on a bed of about 3-4 inches of dead sand. Same thing want to seed that. In that tank is a 12" snowflake eel, a tomato clown, and two small damsels.
On a final note I am a Do It Yourselfer and want to make as much as I can. I also love the science of it all as much as the actual keeping so creating a complete biosystem is a big interest to me.
I will be asking a lot of questions and making a lot of mistakes a long the way but with the help here I hope to finally join the ranks of successful reef keepers.
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