Hello everyone,
I’ve been keeping marine fish since the early 2000s, but only got into reefing proper in 2015. Thought I’d share some of my aquarium projects over the past few years.
In the beginning, I got a secondhand tank from Iwarna. I wanted to go for a bigger display with initial plans for a FOWLR on a budget so this option seemed best at the time.
Its basic specs were:
- 58” x 24” x 24”
- Skimmer: Bubble Magus Curve-9
- Wavemakers: Jebao RW-20 & subsequently x2 Jebao RW-8s.
- Return Pump: Sicce Syncra Silent 5.0
Here’s a photo of the tank in its early stages:
I was keeping mostly fish in the beginning with a few anemones, but developed a newfound interest in corals when I noticed some stray GSP and goniopora on live rock I’d gotten from FreshnMarine growing unexpectedly.
Eventually, I got better lighting, ran a few reactors and converted to a mixed reef-tank for a year or so. Regrettably, the tank ultimately crashed due to a thermal fracture(the tank was running at 25 degrees on a chiller but was located in my front porch which was generally hot most of the time) causing the already more prone curved glass on its sides to crack and I had to decommission the system immediately.
While deciding what to do with the unfortunate situation, I experimented with a cube tank plumbed to the sump of my old 5footer and grew mangroves and some simple corals.
Not too long after, I got a brand new system that was even bigger than the previous one from and couldn’t quite decide what I wanted to do with it at first- Fish-only or full-blown reeftank. I even messed around with cuttlefish and octopus at one point.
This newer system went through a lot of changes in a couple of years but its initial specs were:
- Dimensions: 72” x 36 “ x 30”
- Skimmer: SkimZ Monzter SM207 DC
- Wavemaker: Jebao RW-20 & x2 RW-8s from my previous system, and subsequently + x2 Maxspect Gyre xf-330s.
- Lighting: x3 Maxspect R4z0r 160w and subsequently a Maxspect RSX R5-300 to go with the icv6
Ultimately(and quite recently) I decided to settle with a softie tank with a large fish stocking and plumbed a UV sterilizer for good measure.
I kept the Mangrove system running for about a year and a half before it also had to be decommissioned due to renovation works next door.
Couldn’t bear to see my mangroves go entirely so I managed to get some of them into another semi-outdoor 4ft system I had for while running on with leftover equipment from previous systems on a very tight budget(i more or less got that system for free from a reefer who decommissioned their tank and refurbished it myself)
I hope everyone has been taking the time to care for and appreciate their tanks even more this circuitbreaker!
Cheers & stay safe.
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