Holla! My name is Dave, I reside in Arizona and not only am I new around here but new to this hobby all together.
I‘m in this because my 16 year old son decided this was something he wanted to do. I’ve been pretty hands off until he needed some help. I had fresh water tanks all growing up but having had anything in probably 30 years. I’ve always wanted a salt water tank but they aren’t easy so I never tried. Well, I’ve been on this forum a ton reading through things in order to oversee things are going as planned. He’s been a good steward and only has a pair of clown fish in the 75g tank. He’s hit his bumps so far but his budget is pretty low so he’s going slow.
with all of that said, my wife takes him down to the LFS (<— it’s almost like I know what I’m talking about or belong here or something) and they had a tank there running with fish and corral in it with a sign on it that said Red Sea Reefer Peninsula 650 $500. Needless to say my wife regrets sending me a pic. I drove down and the shop is going to tear it down and replace it with the G2. Apparently Red Sea wants them to run G2 tanks.
I plunk down my $500 bucks and that’s history, like a few days ago history. The tank is still up and running at the shop. I think they are tearing it down next week.
So that’s where I stand at the moment. Honestly nothing exciting and I don’t even have a plan yet other than where it will live. I was going to build out the reef-pi setup I found on here because I’m in IT and have some experience but after looking at used prices I think I’m just going to go with the Apex system used. I grabbed an IceCap K1 skimmer off the used table while I was there and a clearance IceCap Gyre 2K and controller. I’ll add another 2K to it. That’s it. I’ll probably do a Reefmat and some Chaeto in a refuge.
Fish are a side note, I like tangs a lot, actually I like a lot of things but super interested in polyps/LPS so that’s the high point for me. The wife too and let’s face it, she has to enjoy it to I suppose.
With that said this will be a slow build. Very slow. I’ll order 125lbs of rock and try to build a couple awesome acquascapes like the dude from the BRS videos So that will take a bit. Also I’ll start shopping the sale threads for pieces of the system, I plan to automate everything I can from the start to make my life easy. Auto water changes, ATO, DOS, Trident, etc. so who know when the real build will happen but there will be small updates along the way. I’m probably going to do a 2-3 month fish free cycle as well so there will be a gap coming up after I attempt the rock builds.
Overall I’m in zero hurry, didn’t even plan to buy this at the moment but I’m excited.
I‘m in this because my 16 year old son decided this was something he wanted to do. I’ve been pretty hands off until he needed some help. I had fresh water tanks all growing up but having had anything in probably 30 years. I’ve always wanted a salt water tank but they aren’t easy so I never tried. Well, I’ve been on this forum a ton reading through things in order to oversee things are going as planned. He’s been a good steward and only has a pair of clown fish in the 75g tank. He’s hit his bumps so far but his budget is pretty low so he’s going slow.
with all of that said, my wife takes him down to the LFS (<— it’s almost like I know what I’m talking about or belong here or something) and they had a tank there running with fish and corral in it with a sign on it that said Red Sea Reefer Peninsula 650 $500. Needless to say my wife regrets sending me a pic. I drove down and the shop is going to tear it down and replace it with the G2. Apparently Red Sea wants them to run G2 tanks.
I plunk down my $500 bucks and that’s history, like a few days ago history. The tank is still up and running at the shop. I think they are tearing it down next week.
So that’s where I stand at the moment. Honestly nothing exciting and I don’t even have a plan yet other than where it will live. I was going to build out the reef-pi setup I found on here because I’m in IT and have some experience but after looking at used prices I think I’m just going to go with the Apex system used. I grabbed an IceCap K1 skimmer off the used table while I was there and a clearance IceCap Gyre 2K and controller. I’ll add another 2K to it. That’s it. I’ll probably do a Reefmat and some Chaeto in a refuge.
Fish are a side note, I like tangs a lot, actually I like a lot of things but super interested in polyps/LPS so that’s the high point for me. The wife too and let’s face it, she has to enjoy it to I suppose.
With that said this will be a slow build. Very slow. I’ll order 125lbs of rock and try to build a couple awesome acquascapes like the dude from the BRS videos So that will take a bit. Also I’ll start shopping the sale threads for pieces of the system, I plan to automate everything I can from the start to make my life easy. Auto water changes, ATO, DOS, Trident, etc. so who know when the real build will happen but there will be small updates along the way. I’m probably going to do a 2-3 month fish free cycle as well so there will be a gap coming up after I attempt the rock builds.
Overall I’m in zero hurry, didn’t even plan to buy this at the moment but I’m excited.