Hi Everyone,
I have Sad, but exciting news. I have had to make the very difficult desicion to sell my Nano Reef and temporarily put my love for SW reef keeing on hold.
For those of you who do not know me, I have been in the hobby for approximatly 5yrs now. My most recent system was a 20g w/15g sump/fug which housed 1 Scooter Blenny (Male) named Scooter, and 1 Ocellaris ClownFish named Maja. Other tank inhabitants included 2 cleaner shrimp, Brittle Seastar, 2 Porcalin crabs, hermits, snails and a vast variety of corals, as well many other life forms. There was approximatly 45lbs of LR and 30lbs LS between the display and sump. Much of this tank came from my original tank so everything was well established and the life thrived.
I only used RO water and Kent Marine Salt and performed weekly 5g (20%) water changes premixing the water over night. I had approximatly 870gph waterflow in the tank (43.5x turnover). I ran a skimmer and grew Chaeto, Mangroves and Xenia in my sump to use up excess nutrients and keep unwanted algea under controle.
My basic tank specs were as follows:
Temp: 80
Salinity: 1.026
pH: 8.2
Calcium 450ppm
I can not stress enough how important "Patience" and "Reaserch" are in this hobby... as my sig says "Only bad things happen fast in a reef tank, good things happen slowly". That statement is so true and should be imbeded into your minds.
I would like to take this time to say a big "THANK YOU" to everyone on MFT for all the help and support you all have given while I have been a part of this great community. My only regrets are that I did not find MFT sooner
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As of last week my system is no more and all live stock has been sold to a new good home. Now the exciting part, the reason I had to do this... I will be leaving in the summer on extended travels through europe with my girlfriend for a period of apporox 6 months (More on that in the future). I will still be active on MFT for the next few months until I leave on my trip at which point I will only periodically be able to visit.
Below is the last most recent photo of my baby (looking as tears role down my face).
I have Sad, but exciting news. I have had to make the very difficult desicion to sell my Nano Reef and temporarily put my love for SW reef keeing on hold.
For those of you who do not know me, I have been in the hobby for approximatly 5yrs now. My most recent system was a 20g w/15g sump/fug which housed 1 Scooter Blenny (Male) named Scooter, and 1 Ocellaris ClownFish named Maja. Other tank inhabitants included 2 cleaner shrimp, Brittle Seastar, 2 Porcalin crabs, hermits, snails and a vast variety of corals, as well many other life forms. There was approximatly 45lbs of LR and 30lbs LS between the display and sump. Much of this tank came from my original tank so everything was well established and the life thrived.
I only used RO water and Kent Marine Salt and performed weekly 5g (20%) water changes premixing the water over night. I had approximatly 870gph waterflow in the tank (43.5x turnover). I ran a skimmer and grew Chaeto, Mangroves and Xenia in my sump to use up excess nutrients and keep unwanted algea under controle.
My basic tank specs were as follows:
Temp: 80
Salinity: 1.026
pH: 8.2
Calcium 450ppm
I can not stress enough how important "Patience" and "Reaserch" are in this hobby... as my sig says "Only bad things happen fast in a reef tank, good things happen slowly". That statement is so true and should be imbeded into your minds.
I would like to take this time to say a big "THANK YOU" to everyone on MFT for all the help and support you all have given while I have been a part of this great community. My only regrets are that I did not find MFT sooner
.As of last week my system is no more and all live stock has been sold to a new good home. Now the exciting part, the reason I had to do this... I will be leaving in the summer on extended travels through europe with my girlfriend for a period of apporox 6 months (More on that in the future). I will still be active on MFT for the next few months until I leave on my trip at which point I will only periodically be able to visit.
Below is the last most recent photo of my baby
(looking as tears role down my face).
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