40 Breeder & 26 Bowfront
:sgrin: After being in the hobby for 2 months and learning the "hard way" that there was no chance of catching up to the rest of you experienced reefers, I decided to STOP forcing the issue and let nature take it's course. For 2 months I have fiddled w/ a 29 gallon, 20 gallon, 15 gallon, 50 gallon, 10 gallon, and 30 gallon, and hours of aquascaping, time & money, seeking perfection....that I never got! After frusting times, I have finally settled on a 40 breeder & a 26 bow that are plumbed together into one sump filtration. I decided to stock the tank and just let it be and realized in this hobby that there are no shortcuts and the money you invest will never be returned! But who cares, right...just as long as you can sit back and enjoy your corals & fish! I have to thank NyreefNoobe, jlaudio, stchris, robert0419, nycitaliano, HOF and Customking for answering all of my annoying questions!!!:splitspin
I wish I would have started this thread when I started 2 mos ago, you would have been very entertained and see how "OBSESSED & NEUROTIC" I was, not that its great now but you should have seen it 2 months ago! lol
Well back to the tanks:
The 40 breeder is illuminated by a single 150 watt HQI MH and 4x96 watt Actinic PC's and the 26 gallon is running off a Sundial 4 bulb T5/VHO's, no chiller, luckily for me my vent from the central air is directly above the tanks, and the temp never goes above 80 degrees, both tanks are tee'd off into the drain of my sump, using two seperate returns to bring the water back into each tank respectively and utilzing a Coralife 225 which I hope to upgrade soon!
Livestock 40 gallon (Overstocked) Yellow Tang, Pseudchromis, Six Line Wrasse, Pair of Clarkis, one host in a LTA the other my crocea clam, Another clakii, Algae Blenny, Strawbery Crab, Xenias, Cloves, Polyps, Shrooms, Gonipora, croce clam, acros, monti cap, Pipe organ, BTA, sunflower coral, yellow polyps, tube, kenya tree, button polyps, wesophellya, froggies, rics and about 50lbs of LR & 20 nassarius snails and 10 red legged hermit crabs, plus a Copperband for Aipstasia Ive been battling, he's been picking at it, but wont be able to keep him much longer due to size, but he def did the job!
Livestock 26 gallon: 2 Striped Damsels, Blue devil damsel, 2 chromis, 2 Tomatoe Clowns, Lopez Tang, zoas, shrooms, button polyps, xenias, Kenya tree, Spaghetti Finger Leather, 30 lbs of LR, algae blenny, cleaner shrimp, acorpora, frogspawn, & 10 Nassarius snails:givebeer:
:sgrin: After being in the hobby for 2 months and learning the "hard way" that there was no chance of catching up to the rest of you experienced reefers, I decided to STOP forcing the issue and let nature take it's course. For 2 months I have fiddled w/ a 29 gallon, 20 gallon, 15 gallon, 50 gallon, 10 gallon, and 30 gallon, and hours of aquascaping, time & money, seeking perfection....that I never got! After frusting times, I have finally settled on a 40 breeder & a 26 bow that are plumbed together into one sump filtration. I decided to stock the tank and just let it be and realized in this hobby that there are no shortcuts and the money you invest will never be returned! But who cares, right...just as long as you can sit back and enjoy your corals & fish! I have to thank NyreefNoobe, jlaudio, stchris, robert0419, nycitaliano, HOF and Customking for answering all of my annoying questions!!!:splitspin
I wish I would have started this thread when I started 2 mos ago, you would have been very entertained and see how "OBSESSED & NEUROTIC" I was, not that its great now but you should have seen it 2 months ago! lol
Well back to the tanks:
The 40 breeder is illuminated by a single 150 watt HQI MH and 4x96 watt Actinic PC's and the 26 gallon is running off a Sundial 4 bulb T5/VHO's, no chiller, luckily for me my vent from the central air is directly above the tanks, and the temp never goes above 80 degrees, both tanks are tee'd off into the drain of my sump, using two seperate returns to bring the water back into each tank respectively and utilzing a Coralife 225 which I hope to upgrade soon!
Livestock 40 gallon (Overstocked) Yellow Tang, Pseudchromis, Six Line Wrasse, Pair of Clarkis, one host in a LTA the other my crocea clam, Another clakii, Algae Blenny, Strawbery Crab, Xenias, Cloves, Polyps, Shrooms, Gonipora, croce clam, acros, monti cap, Pipe organ, BTA, sunflower coral, yellow polyps, tube, kenya tree, button polyps, wesophellya, froggies, rics and about 50lbs of LR & 20 nassarius snails and 10 red legged hermit crabs, plus a Copperband for Aipstasia Ive been battling, he's been picking at it, but wont be able to keep him much longer due to size, but he def did the job!
Livestock 26 gallon: 2 Striped Damsels, Blue devil damsel, 2 chromis, 2 Tomatoe Clowns, Lopez Tang, zoas, shrooms, button polyps, xenias, Kenya tree, Spaghetti Finger Leather, 30 lbs of LR, algae blenny, cleaner shrimp, acorpora, frogspawn, & 10 Nassarius snails:givebeer:
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