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[RiptideAquaculture]

First tank was with my dad. 120g fish only with under gravel filter and hob filter. Ran like a top for years. Then salt creep made its way into the outlet and set the wall on fire. Wish i had a pic but it was the 90's. We kept that tank with a porcupine puffer, lion fish and a marine betta for prob 7 to 10 years.

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[RiptideAquaculture]

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[RiptideAquaculture]

1992 for my 11th birthday my sister bought me a bag of instant ocean. We went to seattle alki beach. The place was where we farmed these small little rock crabs and my mom would pickle them and sell them to other Asians.

We made sure i could gather rock and sand to take back home. The game warder didnt care.

Got home 8 hours later. Filled the tank with sand and rocks we picked up. Topped off with mixed salt water. 1 month later, picked up a blue damsel from petco. Didn't see the fish next day. Thought I had failed. A few weeks later. I saw the damsel swimming around in the morning.

Following that event would be a pearl bubble coral and a blue ribbon eel. I lost it all in 1996. My biggest heart break in my youth.

I wish i had pics.

What did i learn? If your guests can't follow household rules... Tell them to go home.

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[Stang67]

Too cold for tike attire but I grabbed Tom from out of winter storage.

I decorate my deck outside every year with all kinds of tiki stuff.

 

[ADAM]

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Good as I can do….

 

[Stang67]

look like micromussa to me. I have 2 of them

How's the kiddo feeling today? Better?

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

Man, my first reef tank... I set up a 75 with sand from someone else, rock from something else, and just started throwing corals and fish in. It was great for 5 or 6 years until I sold my house. I bought my parent's house and took the tank over but I couldn't officially move in for another 3 months so tank maintenance was severely lacking. When we finally moved in, the tank was done for so we downgraded to a 30 gallon which eventually became a brackish tank that was replaced with a bearded dragon that was replaced with the 75 reef back again (and a 5 was set up off to the side somewhere in this story). Hopefully tomorrow or next weekend the 135 is coming home!!!!!!
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Current 75

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[RiptideAquaculture]

Current tank is my first reef tank...I'm trying to go slow, so other than a filefish being a jerk / attacking my clowns (one didn't survive) it's been several months since something didn't make it. Thanks to @sstephanie00's gift at Christmas, the zoa garden (which is doing best in my nano reef) includes a pair of Krak Zoas from @RiptideAquaculture

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[RiptideAquaculture]

Goal #1

Thanks for the module

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[RiptideAquaculture]

early 80's.
29g on a black steel stand.
fresh water hood with fluorescents.
live rock
yellow polyps and brown button polyps
domino damsel
three striped damsel
blue ring octopus

what i learned....
damsels are easy.
octo's not so much.

edit: can't make the live stream. still working.

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[ShaynaL]

Goal #3

 

[Digitalfirex]

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Would you accept this picture of YOU in front of my tank with your best tiki attire??

 

[TnFishwater98]

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

My first reef tank was a 24 gallon biocube back in 2008. It had a daisy clove polyp colony. It also had a purple dottyback and a pair of clownfish. That tank crashed because I tried to add a rock flower anemone way sooner than I should have and it melted. The person who sold it to me claimed it would be OK in there. I learned the hard way that one should do their own research and not trust the guy at the LFS who is there just to sell you stuff. I also learned nothing good happens fast in a reef tank. I also learned the importance of stability of parameters and not to chase numbers unless a parameter is way off and the test kit is accurate.

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[ShaynaL]

Goal #4

 

[cbolt62621]

 

[billyocean]

No attire...buuuuut...

 

[ADAM]

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The ukulele has to be worth at least one extra bonus point!!

 

[LeeLoo Lola]

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Quickly switched out of workout clothes and this is the best I could come up with. Can’t really see the flower in my hair too well. Tank is just waking up, but anything for a better chance at winning! Lol! Now back to my workout so I can feel less guilty about sitting on the couch all day!!

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

Goals 1 3 and 7 done! I'm an odd number kind of guy I guess.

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