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psness · Jul 8, 2024

Greetings all. I have had salt water tanks since 1982 in various shapes and sizes, mostly fish and inverts but dove into corals many years ago for a short time with little success. Over the years I have been more active at times and less active at times. In the 1980's, I lived in south Florida and used to scuba dive and collected fish and inverts for my tank. A year ago, we installed new flooring so I tore down my 25g tank and replaced it with a 29g tank and a new stand. Since then, I've gotten more serious and have been trying to get up-to-date with the newest trends and technology. Until last year I ran an Eheim cannister for many years, but when I set up the tank with a new stand, there wasn't enough clearance under the tank and one of the return lines blew so I switched to a Penguin 375 which has done a fine job. I've been working on reducing long-time high nitrates and making upgrades to eventually get back into corals and more inverts but have a choc chip star and a very aggressive tomato clown (15 yrs old) that preclude me from doing that for a while. For years the clown has kept me from adding much of anything. I may soon take donate him to a LFS that has an orphan room. I recently added another higher powered LED strip light, chaeto, and have a skimmer to install and researching DIY refugiums in order to move the chaeto into it before the tomato clown tears it up completely.

revhtree · Jul 8, 2024

Welcome to your new home for saltwater reef aquarium resources and fun! Welcome to the family!

WalkerLovesTheOcean · Jul 8, 2024

Welcome to Reef2reef! And wow, a 15 year old tomato is pretty cool!

Reefer Matt · Jul 8, 2024

steveschuerger · Jul 8, 2024

Brisk · Jul 8, 2024

Welcome!

PharmrJohn · Jul 8, 2024

There's a few of you SW old timers here! My first foray was in the early 90s. I failed spectacularly! But with age, comes wisdom (and male pattern baldness). It's really good to have your experience here.

So Greetings and Welcome to our collective obsession!!!!