*** Tank Talk with Top Lids & Avast Marine Giveaway!! WIN a Plank Autofeeder and Custom Lid for Your Tank!! ***
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Buy what you want to end up with. If it means postponing to wait to financially get everything do that. As a highschooler with a 55gal reef all hang on, while it worked it was a nightmare.
Get a drilled tank with a sump. It hides everything and gives you space to get way better equipment options.
reefedandconfused
Community Member
Looking for a custom top for my biocube!
Avast Marine and Top Lids are teaming up to bring you an awesome and fun giveaway with a bit of a different spin!! Welcome to the "Tank Talk with Top Lids & Avast Marine Giveaway!!" Both Avast Marine and Top Lids have established themselves with a reputation for quality and innovation that leads to epic excellence! We're proud to have both of these great companies as sponsors of our community, and super excited about seeing them come together for this event!
Now, I said this giveaway has a bit of a different spin to it, and here's what I mean... One of the things we love about having a community like Reef2Reef is that we can come together over our passion for all things marine and celebrate the wonderful parts of the reef hobby, we enjoy showing off tanks, talking through complications, finding solutions, and celebrating progress toward those thriving beautiful reef aquariums, and we do all of that together in community! Well, in this event, you guys are going to get to talk through all of these different aspects of the hobby with the guys behind these 2 awesome brands.
Each day, you will be given a discussion prompt (or sometimes maybe more than one), and your response to that prompt is your entry to the giveaway! It really is that simple! Engaging in conversation about reefing topics with @Avast Justin and @Top_Lids is how you participate and WIN in this contest!!
The grand prize for this giveaway is a Plank Autofeeder and a large bag of Reef Jerky (feeds an average size tank for 5-6 months) from Avast Marine and a custom Luxury Lid from Top Lids w/ Food Regulator!
Also, in addition to that grand prize, the great folks at Avast Marine and Top Lids have said that they will be monitoring the giveaway with the plan to award bonus prizes to people they see who are completely engaged with the contest and the ongoing conversations in here! So keep your participation up, and you could win cool bonus prizes!
Ready to get started? Here ya go!
HOW TO ENTER
OFFICIAL ENTRY (Required): Make a post in this thread telling us about your tank and how you would use this prize if you win!
DAILY ENTRY OPPORTUNITIES: Here's how to get additional entries each day... Each day, one (or both) of the contest sponsors will post a discussion prompt. You get an entry to the contest by interacting with that prompt! (If there are multiple prompts, then multiple entries are possible for that day). Also, be sure to make ONE post in THIS thread for each entry. (Combined entries in a single post only counts as one entry.)
The goal is to keep the conversation going, learn and enjoy community, and win great prizes!!
BONUS ENTRY FOR R2R SUPPORTING & PARTNER MEMBERS: This is an entry option that is only available if you are a Reef2Reef Supporting or Partner Member. If you are a supporting/partner member please make a post in this thread stating that you are a R2R supporter/partner. Our partner member drive is currently open! Get more info HERE!!
THE PRIZE
- 1 Plank Autofeeder from Avast Marine + a large bag of Reef Jerky (feeds an average size tank for 5-6 months)
- 1 completely custom Luxury Lid from Top Lids (max size of 72" x 26") + 1 Food Regulator with your choice of color
THE DRAWING
Entries will be accepted through December 22, 2023. We will choose the winner via a random number generator. The winner will be announced by Avast Marine and Top Lids in a special live stream on December 23rd. So be sure to join in for that drawing! (We will also tage the winner in this thread.)
Thanks again to Avast Marine and Top Lids for this awesome giveaway!
#r2rgiveaway
driciladr
Community Member
Stuff off marketplace may save you 10 bucks but lots of it doesn’t work, spend the extra $10 for new. Also…. Used tanks - older than 10 years old, aren’t worth the risk. Get a new tank.
ctenophore
Active Member
TANK TALK: Our community is full of passionate aquarists. Tell us about one of the most memorable experiences you’ve had with the reef community.
Since deciding that I will be going into reefing about 2 months ago, my most memorable experience is actually the community itself. Originally I had plans to do a cichlids tank, but as I kept coming back to this forum and watching the community interact, I decided to be a reefer. Since then, I had lots of questions and this community was there to help.
You know, I think about this often. How so many things apply to reefing 101. Our own body chemistry requiring a balance of Mg, Ca and Alk. Understanding climate change and why we are losing so many natural reefs. Ideas for treatment of Red Tide here in FL and why, this year, it wasn't nearly as bad as anticipated (I believe the giant floating mass of Sargassum outcompeted for nutrients). It's incredible, when you stop and really think about how it all connects.
Troylee
all about the diy!!!!!
The warm welcome I got coming back after a long break! All the old timers started cutting frags and helping me fill up my tank for free!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I really think Broadfield changed sump cabinets for the entire reefing community. Usually we want to hide our sumps and the tangle of wires that go with it, but he made a lot of us want to show off the sump with just as much pride as our main display. I remember reading through his entire build thread for my own inspo, and so many others had questions about materials, where to order parts from, etc. Everyone wanted orange pvc, clean control boards and pipe manifolds with a couple of aquamaxx reactors lol. And I don't think it was too long after that Adaptive Reef started coming out with control boards, Neptune launched its new Apex with the iconic dominant orange look, more companies started developing tank lines with colorful PVC. Anyway, it all may or may not be coincidence, but the timing sure seemed to add up to me! Even so, it certainly changed how I think of sumps. What ever happened to Broadfield?
Waaay back in the day when I was broke, more broke than now lol
There was a group of skimmer enthusiast that would buy cheap skimmers and mod them out to get them to perform better I had allot of fun doing that, it was a fun good group of people. Also learned to just save up and buy a good one lol.
Ive also had pretty good time during live sales shooting the breeze with others waiting for deals to drop. Met some cool people doing that.
Meeting up and camping out with other members from the community at a well known custom tank maker. This is all I am allowed to say. First Rule of Tank club.
LadyMac
Freshwater sage fish whisperer
That’s a hard one. Probably the most recent disaster to befall my tank, a a whole group of knowledgeable passionate members coming to help with advice on what to do and equipment I needed.
For sure, a young buddy (16yo) and reefing enthusiast encouraged me to put in some of his mature biomedia into my fluval evo. My first ever reef tank. I had it stuck in my head that I had to do the 2-3 month cycling process. I'm so glad I listed to him! I had coral in my tank by the end of week 1! What a wonderful and short journey it has been.
He has taught me a lot and continues to. Now I'm also teaching him as I learn more while I'm here.
Having a common bond with someone can build the most unlikely of friendships!
malacoda
Valuable Member
How about three pieces...
- Simplicity beats fancy any day of the week.
- Think long and hard on whether or not your really need a piece of equipment before you buy it. (More equipment = more complexity = more points of failure and great chance of messing something up.)
- Buy the best quality you can. (You'll save $ and headaches in the long run.)
Went to a guy's house to buy some of his old Fiji and Marshall Island rocks, dried out for 5 years. Wish I had bought the whole lot. Was fun to chat with him for a while and see his tank. Been in reefing for decades. Before leaving he just broke off about 20 heads of a huge torch and put it into a ziplock bag for me. Only kept a head (nano tank) and donated the rest, but still have the torch!
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Like most things, you get what you pay for. Cheap metals corrode and rust. Cheap pump are usually noisy or get hot.
Good used equipment will last a long time.
Official entry: I have a nice thank (in my opinion) but im using an ugly home depot screen as a lid. I would definetly love a nice lid to help with the look of the tank while maintaining my acrobat fish inside.
