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So Hi,
I’m Blake imp new to the sight and still pretty new to reefing but here we go.
I have been in the hobby for almost a year now and I’m so beyond hooked. I guess I Could use this to tell my story about how I got into the hobby.
I started keeping a small 20g aquarium when I was young; I recently got back for the military and decided to set up the tank just for fun. At the time I was also in the start of a very young relationship.
For those of you who don’t know reefing can be a very bad thing to base a young relationship on or at least have that much responsibility that fast. It can really throw everything off!
But we didn’t know that so we did it.
Well first we started with a 20-gallon fresh water…
Then we bought a 55g and so we had a young reef tank
It lasted for a few months along with our relationship we learned what we did and didn’t enjoy about it. What we both knew was we wanted more and bigger!
For the first few months it was chaos! We bought a pair of clowns, a wrasse a lion fish and a snowflake eel. And a royal Grama that some how survived all this Now the wrasse was a Dragon wrasse, (rock mover) all we knew was it looked cool its going in the tank.
I woke up a few mornings later and the fuzzy dwarf lionfish was gone and so were the clowns.
I was mad so, I started over I went that night and got a purple dart fish some new clowns, and a rock beauty angel.
I quickly found out the angel was not reef friendly… so he went back.
After this I stopped did some research and found out what reef friendly actually means. With caution means DO MORE RESEARCH BEFORE YOU BUY IT!!
It was also the stage where I learned saltwater is very different from fresh and especially reef tanks.
You MUST add some things and keep the care up almost on the daily!
But a few months in and we found cleaned up and switched to a 90-gallon non-drilled tank. Both the 55 and 90 were set up with no sump and minimal filtration I know now it was wrong but I didn’t at the time.
This is also the point when our relationship and the tank went opposite directions.
Now keep in mind I still love this girl she was my best friend and an awesome person.
That said we were not meant to be together. She we take it as a personal slight against her if I went to the fish store without her. Also that fish store has a smoking hot blonde girl there and that didn’t make her feel any better about going or me going alone. We continued on fighting and loving. The whole time the tank is causing issues with time and money and her not getting to see it….
Yeah so what I’m *****ing its my soapbox I can….
Just take my word for it sucked. In the midst of all this we also came across a 177 custom-built glass non-drilled tank and we decided we are going to do this right.
Until I drilled the corners of the tank with out getting a bulkhead first, but the one I ended up with fit it perfect anyway.
I built the stand for it put rock in it and set it up. After oh 6 months or more.
By this point I understood fish a bit better too.
Tangs… really pretty but be careful easy to overload your tank, can be aggressive to other fish in general.
Wrasse. LOOK FOR REEF SAFE!
Clowns easy day,
I still have that royal Grama hardest little fish ever!
So now I have a 200 gallon beautiful reef and no one to tell me I shouldn’t spend my money on her rather than the tank.:thumbs:
I have a pretty awesome setup now I just bought an apex jr. and really starting to have fun.
Please feel free to ask anything you like
I’m Blake imp new to the sight and still pretty new to reefing but here we go.
I have been in the hobby for almost a year now and I’m so beyond hooked. I guess I Could use this to tell my story about how I got into the hobby.
I started keeping a small 20g aquarium when I was young; I recently got back for the military and decided to set up the tank just for fun. At the time I was also in the start of a very young relationship.
For those of you who don’t know reefing can be a very bad thing to base a young relationship on or at least have that much responsibility that fast. It can really throw everything off!
But we didn’t know that so we did it.
Well first we started with a 20-gallon fresh water…
Then we bought a 55g and so we had a young reef tank
It lasted for a few months along with our relationship we learned what we did and didn’t enjoy about it. What we both knew was we wanted more and bigger!
For the first few months it was chaos! We bought a pair of clowns, a wrasse a lion fish and a snowflake eel. And a royal Grama that some how survived all this Now the wrasse was a Dragon wrasse, (rock mover) all we knew was it looked cool its going in the tank.
I woke up a few mornings later and the fuzzy dwarf lionfish was gone and so were the clowns.
I was mad so, I started over I went that night and got a purple dart fish some new clowns, and a rock beauty angel.
I quickly found out the angel was not reef friendly… so he went back.
After this I stopped did some research and found out what reef friendly actually means. With caution means DO MORE RESEARCH BEFORE YOU BUY IT!!
It was also the stage where I learned saltwater is very different from fresh and especially reef tanks.
You MUST add some things and keep the care up almost on the daily!
But a few months in and we found cleaned up and switched to a 90-gallon non-drilled tank. Both the 55 and 90 were set up with no sump and minimal filtration I know now it was wrong but I didn’t at the time.
This is also the point when our relationship and the tank went opposite directions.
Now keep in mind I still love this girl she was my best friend and an awesome person.
That said we were not meant to be together. She we take it as a personal slight against her if I went to the fish store without her. Also that fish store has a smoking hot blonde girl there and that didn’t make her feel any better about going or me going alone. We continued on fighting and loving. The whole time the tank is causing issues with time and money and her not getting to see it….
Yeah so what I’m *****ing its my soapbox I can….
Just take my word for it sucked. In the midst of all this we also came across a 177 custom-built glass non-drilled tank and we decided we are going to do this right.
Until I drilled the corners of the tank with out getting a bulkhead first, but the one I ended up with fit it perfect anyway.
I built the stand for it put rock in it and set it up. After oh 6 months or more.
By this point I understood fish a bit better too.
Tangs… really pretty but be careful easy to overload your tank, can be aggressive to other fish in general.
Wrasse. LOOK FOR REEF SAFE!
Clowns easy day,
I still have that royal Grama hardest little fish ever!
So now I have a 200 gallon beautiful reef and no one to tell me I shouldn’t spend my money on her rather than the tank.:thumbs:
I have a pretty awesome setup now I just bought an apex jr. and really starting to have fun.
Please feel free to ask anything you like
