Got into this hobby way back in 1991. Started off with an acrylic 55g with some Damsels. Moved into the reef side shortly after with the old wet/dry filter system and a 5' tall skimmer!
1993 Moved to London with a 6' tank for my Naso and Emperor! Loved those guys.
Got out of the hobby shortly after my daughter was born in 2004. Back then I was a rebel by getting out of wet/dry and just using tons of live rock and skimmer.
So a couple of months ago my daughter wanted a fish, nothing special. So got her a tank, 30g. Then my wife wanted a tank so she has a little 10g. Thought I'd better get one too. So found a used 14g Biocube, then moved into a 32 Biocube LED. Of course that wasn't be enough which leads us to this one.
Of course this one is only an interim until I decide on the next, either a Miracles 36 cube or a custom 30x30x30 acrylic cube. We'll see.
So I found a used Miracles Starphire 60g cube on Kijiji, good shape, crappy black stand. Picked it up along with RO skimmer.
Thought I'd build this right and start off with quality products that will be moved onto the next build so spent a whack of money;
Bashsea Cube sump, ATO reservoir and two reactors
Apex
DOS auto water change
ATK ato
COR 15 return pump
Neptune feeder
Neptune flow metres
Kessil AP700 and H80
CoralSea RN-1 wave makers
Finnex Ti heaters
Unfortunately these pictures are from wake up time, so pretty blue. Have about 60lbs of Reef Rock in there, a few small frags, snails, shrimp, crabs and some fishes...
Unfortunately I broke my own rule and added the fish a little too early without proper quarantine. My poor Purple Tang has been fighting Ich for the past couple of weeks, still eating fine and otherwise doing ok but I'm really torn between treating in place with Medic and letting nature take it's course (ie build up immunity) or tearing everything apart, catch the fish and treat in a separate tank. Everyone is eating and other than a little bit of flashing OK.
BTW, the stand is painted black, just went and got some acrylic sheets cut to size and velcro them to the sides. APEX is installed in cabinet to the right and that's the ATO reservoir to the left.
That's egg crate on the top to stop jumpers.
Hobby has changed some in the past 25 years, interesting.
1993 Moved to London with a 6' tank for my Naso and Emperor! Loved those guys.
Got out of the hobby shortly after my daughter was born in 2004. Back then I was a rebel by getting out of wet/dry and just using tons of live rock and skimmer.
So a couple of months ago my daughter wanted a fish, nothing special. So got her a tank, 30g. Then my wife wanted a tank so she has a little 10g. Thought I'd better get one too. So found a used 14g Biocube, then moved into a 32 Biocube LED. Of course that wasn't be enough which leads us to this one.
Of course this one is only an interim until I decide on the next, either a Miracles 36 cube or a custom 30x30x30 acrylic cube. We'll see.
So I found a used Miracles Starphire 60g cube on Kijiji, good shape, crappy black stand. Picked it up along with RO skimmer.
Thought I'd build this right and start off with quality products that will be moved onto the next build so spent a whack of money;
Bashsea Cube sump, ATO reservoir and two reactors
Apex
DOS auto water change
ATK ato
COR 15 return pump
Neptune feeder
Neptune flow metres
Kessil AP700 and H80
CoralSea RN-1 wave makers
Finnex Ti heaters
Unfortunately these pictures are from wake up time, so pretty blue. Have about 60lbs of Reef Rock in there, a few small frags, snails, shrimp, crabs and some fishes...
Unfortunately I broke my own rule and added the fish a little too early without proper quarantine. My poor Purple Tang has been fighting Ich for the past couple of weeks, still eating fine and otherwise doing ok but I'm really torn between treating in place with Medic and letting nature take it's course (ie build up immunity) or tearing everything apart, catch the fish and treat in a separate tank. Everyone is eating and other than a little bit of flashing OK.
BTW, the stand is painted black, just went and got some acrylic sheets cut to size and velcro them to the sides. APEX is installed in cabinet to the right and that's the ATO reservoir to the left.
That's egg crate on the top to stop jumpers.
Hobby has changed some in the past 25 years, interesting.
