Newbie Introduction Thread

[Prankster11]

Alright....alright......alright Tyler. Thanks for sharing. Looks like your moving on up. Make sure you jump in with questions....observations or just get involved to help wake up this forum. Again, welcome sir.

MUCHO

Thanks! I will

 

[beancounter04]

I am back in the hobby after a 7 year hiatus. My 7 year old daughter and I have started a 60 gallon cube, and we both like the zoathids. I have been reading about the palytoxins. I'm having second thoughts about keeping them after reading some of the horror stories. On the fence right now. Really enjoy the photos though.

 

[DrBoxedWine]

I'll bite, although I have been around a while I don't think I have ever done a intro post,

Josh, 30 year old Diesel Tech from Southeast Michigan. 8 gallon BioCube for a year, kept a lot of things in there that pushed the limitsa bit for the little tank with stock lights... several montipora, lps and the such.

I now have a 3 month old system consisting of a custom 95 gallon tank from Great Lakes Aquariums. 36" long x 30" wide x 20.5" tall. 50 breeder as a sump in my basement. Mag 12 return 7 feet up to the tank, 2 6055 Tunze Nano Streams, 1 6100 Tunze on a controller, about 90 lbs of live rock, 100 lbs of mixed grade aragonite sands. 3 36" TEKII retros for a total of 234 watts. Ranco Temp controller with dual 250w heaters, ViaAqua Reactor with Phosban, JBJ ATO system, AquaC EV120 running on a 633gph ECO pump, 12 gallon fuge and 30 lbs of live rock in the sump.


Fish are a 4" Purple Tang, 3 Green Chromis, 1 Chalk Bass, 1 Yellow Coris Wrasse.

Corals include... brains, frogspawns, acans, lobos, chalice, 3 different montipora, blue tort, a couple flourescent red shrooms, and a whole bunch of palys and zoas. LPS and Paly/zoas are my biggest obsessions.

Plus the other things every good reefer should have... RO/DI system, 50 gallons of NSW on hand , 30 gallons of RO/DI water on hand, enough Salifert test kits to make a man go broke, backup return pump... etc... and the most important one of all...


A VERY FORGIVING WIFE!

What are your thoughts on GLA? I used to live in Michigan, but even out here in Denver, the $300-400 delivery charge still keeps their stuff competitive. I'm thinking of them for my next tank. Have you been pleased with them and your tank?

 

[DrBoxedWine]

Oh, I started up my reef tank in August, and then picked up my lights at MACNA (very convenient to have the National.convention 6 miles from my house as I was starting out). I'm a data analyst in Denver, (actually starting this job on Monday, woot!) I converted my 75g cichlid tank into a reef. At the time I thought "oh I've been doing cichlids for 1.5 years, this switch will be easy," I laugh at this thought now. I dealt with the usual beginner mistakes including a bad ich outbreak that set me back a bit. I'm starting to feel like things are finally on the right track. It's hard to imagine ever going back to freshwater. This hobby is absolutely addicting. Fortunately I have a wife who does her best to keep me in check and out of the poor house. I was really bummed when I realized my budget didn't allow me to convert my 125g tank into a reef. I sold it, and was bummed at the time. I'd still love to have that thing, but I didn't realize at the time that a 75g reef is a LOT, lol.