10g dormroom reef!

[Steeltowndubber]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8058544#post8058544 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bucknellreefer
Mine tends to cause some microbubbles so i lowered it to take the pics. It really does keep the surface nice and clear though.

Thanks for clarifying... Tanks looks good BTW...

 

[Poorcollegereef]

So what is the limit of dorm tanks???
Im a grad student now and nolonger living in the dorms but I used to be a Building Supervisor (the Boss of the RAs) and I used to have a 55gallong but my school (Mary Washington) placed a limit on tank size and made it no larger than 20. To get around that, I now have a double 20 setup. I also did alot of moves, but with a high rate of success... except I broke a few tanks, but no life loss until my move to Clemson, but if you need any suggestions about moving during break, let me know and I have fine tuned my system over the many years. Anyway, this reminds me that i think that reefcentral need to have a forum for college reefers and I should PM someone about that. NE ways, good looking reef, but you really need to 'buck' up and get some sps!

 

[bucknellreefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8067255#post8067255 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Poorcollegereef
So what is the limit of dorm tanks???
Im a grad student now and nolonger living in the dorms but I used to be a Building Supervisor (the Boss of the RAs) and I used to have a 55gallong but my school (Mary Washington) placed a limit on tank size and made it no larger than 20. To get around that, I now have a double 20 setup. I also did alot of moves, but with a high rate of success... except I broke a few tanks, but no life loss until my move to Clemson, but if you need any suggestions about moving during break, let me know and I have fine tuned my system over the many years. Anyway, this reminds me that i think that reefcentral need to have a forum for college reefers and I should PM someone about that. NE ways, good looking reef, but you really need to 'buck' up and get some sps!

I have a pretty good system for moving, i bag all the livestock and put it in a cooler. and put most of the rock in a bucket with most of the water from the tank. rest of the water goes into gallon jugs with the exception of enough to keep the remaining rock in the tank and the sand covered. I didn't lose anything in my first move and it wasn't really too difficult, just stressful.
And about the sps, its hard for me to get stuff here at school because the closest lfs is like 40 minutes away and i am kinda limited in my budget because i play baseball at school and that takes up all my spare time. I also am hesitant to ship stuff cause i don't trust the mailroom to process things fast enough. with that said i did get a free acro frag when i bought the blastos. It was already browned out so i will see if it colors up at all the next few months. its polyps are a really nice bright green so it will be interesting to see if my little 70w halide is enough.
The 33 oceanic i got will probably get set up with either a 150 or 250 watt halide so keeping a lot of sps will be more realistic in that setup.