Stupidsreef
Reefing newb
Hello everyone,
I'm new to this site, a friend refered me d.french. I started this hobby in 2004 with a 90g NON-RR tank. Like so many new-bies I had the HOB fitler's and a Prizm skimmer with PC light's. Within a few months a friend of mine gave me the Key's needed to have a nice system. I then went to a 90g RR tank with MH and an ASM skimmer. Then in the summer of 2006 and nasty storm came through and knocked out our power for 8 days. I lost everything tank wise. That was a hard blow, and really hurt to see everything I had gone within a few days. But I wasn't going to let that stop me. I rebuilt the system and got back on track. 2006 was a good year for me & I came into a small chunk of change, I started building another system. Through the help of friends and ideas from all of them we were able to put together a 225g RR system. A friend and myself built the stand and canpoy, the tank is custom designed by the two of us.
It is a glasscages.com tank and I designed a sort of coast to coast overflow.
Tank: 60 X 36 X 25 Euro braced ( no center braces ) with 4 two inch holes acrossed the top back. 3 feed the sump & one goes to the skimmer.
Sump: 100g stock tank rubbermade.
Skimmer: Reef Octopus TDNW300
Calcuim Reactor: Geo 618 Calcium Reactor
GFO Reactor: BRS "DUAL" GFO and Carbon
Lighting: 3 Ice Cap Ballast running 8 Giessmann T5 bulbs
RO/DI unit from thefilterguys.com.
ATO system is by autotopoff.com. I fill a 55 gallon drum with RO/DI which is hooked up to the ATO, once the drum is down to 10g RO/DI unit refills it.( I have to turn it on and a float vavle shut off keeps it from overflowing ) I make SW in another 55g drum for water changes.
My tank is ran by a Sequence Reeflo Barracuda pump and 3 of the maxi-jets 1200 Sureflow Mods.
My fish list has grown in the last 3 months.
1)Maroon Clown--Had for 2 years now
1)Christmas wrass--Had for about 2 years
1)Copperbanded Butterflyfish---Had for almost 1 year
1)6 inch Yellow tang (Holding for a friend)---About 6 months now
1)Coral Beauty--Given to me about a month ago
1)Bristle tooth tang 3 inches (given to me a few weeks ago)
1)2 1/2 inch Longnosed Hawkfish---about 2 months now
1)Long Horned Cowfish--Just bought 1 week ago
Due to a nasty Virus, I can't up load pics to my computer now :frustrat:. But I will see what I can do as far as finding some. If there are any questions please feel free to ask. I don't consider myself to be anything more than a Newbe as I'm still learning something new everyday about this hobby. I've made a lot of mistakes hence the SN, and most just call me Stu. I've come here to learn from other's and maybe offer what little advise I know.
Stu.
I'm new to this site, a friend refered me d.french. I started this hobby in 2004 with a 90g NON-RR tank. Like so many new-bies I had the HOB fitler's and a Prizm skimmer with PC light's. Within a few months a friend of mine gave me the Key's needed to have a nice system. I then went to a 90g RR tank with MH and an ASM skimmer. Then in the summer of 2006 and nasty storm came through and knocked out our power for 8 days. I lost everything tank wise. That was a hard blow, and really hurt to see everything I had gone within a few days. But I wasn't going to let that stop me. I rebuilt the system and got back on track. 2006 was a good year for me & I came into a small chunk of change, I started building another system. Through the help of friends and ideas from all of them we were able to put together a 225g RR system. A friend and myself built the stand and canpoy, the tank is custom designed by the two of us.
It is a glasscages.com tank and I designed a sort of coast to coast overflow.
Tank: 60 X 36 X 25 Euro braced ( no center braces ) with 4 two inch holes acrossed the top back. 3 feed the sump & one goes to the skimmer.
Sump: 100g stock tank rubbermade.
Skimmer: Reef Octopus TDNW300
Calcuim Reactor: Geo 618 Calcium Reactor
GFO Reactor: BRS "DUAL" GFO and Carbon
Lighting: 3 Ice Cap Ballast running 8 Giessmann T5 bulbs
RO/DI unit from thefilterguys.com.
ATO system is by autotopoff.com. I fill a 55 gallon drum with RO/DI which is hooked up to the ATO, once the drum is down to 10g RO/DI unit refills it.( I have to turn it on and a float vavle shut off keeps it from overflowing ) I make SW in another 55g drum for water changes.
My tank is ran by a Sequence Reeflo Barracuda pump and 3 of the maxi-jets 1200 Sureflow Mods.
My fish list has grown in the last 3 months.
1)Maroon Clown--Had for 2 years now
1)Christmas wrass--Had for about 2 years
1)Copperbanded Butterflyfish---Had for almost 1 year
1)6 inch Yellow tang (Holding for a friend)---About 6 months now
1)Coral Beauty--Given to me about a month ago
1)Bristle tooth tang 3 inches (given to me a few weeks ago)
1)2 1/2 inch Longnosed Hawkfish---about 2 months now
1)Long Horned Cowfish--Just bought 1 week ago
Due to a nasty Virus, I can't up load pics to my computer now :frustrat:. But I will see what I can do as far as finding some. If there are any questions please feel free to ask. I don't consider myself to be anything more than a Newbe as I'm still learning something new everyday about this hobby. I've made a lot of mistakes hence the SN, and most just call me Stu. I've come here to learn from other's and maybe offer what little advise I know.
Stu.