Hey, I’m B from Mesa.
This is long winded, but I figure if we’re on here we have some spare time
Just started up my first salt after 20+ in fresh. Been breeding cichlids in ponds outside for the past 8 here in phx. Easy. Did high tech planted, and bred everything, did everything -Boring. So here I am haha
I don’t usually do forums and community stuff but I’d like to find a local group with similar interests whom I vibe with. My other interests of roping cattle, carpentry, farming, motorcycles & hot rods, homesteading etc doesn’t necessarily bring my sort of crowd haha
My current setup is a innovative marine 30 lagoon. I wanted to start small to make all the mistakes, and get a good ecosystem I can transfer to skip starting a larger tank later. I have quite literally purchased 90% of my equipment through trade with discount aquarium in Tempe throughout the past 5 years getting ready for this build.
The tank sits on a home made stand. (I’ve got a shop full of toys to make custom whatever.) the tank sits as soon as you enter the house. I am going for a statement RTBA tank eventually. Has an eshopps sump below with a hob reefocto1000 on the sump (with an outside airline) so I can run a fuge. In the cabinet there is also a kalk stirrer w doser, a carbon/gfo reactor, and apex. Which is a tight fit in a 23”x23” stand.
There is a very, very complicated apex system (I have 3 other apex systems on breeding ponds, discus, and office cichlid tank) running this tank, I don’t trust any of their other products (especially if I’m purchasing them used) or else I’d love the alktronic and master but looking at ghl alk doser. An iPad sitting next to it runs as display.
It sits against a garage wall which I went through so the tank and water mixing station/ rodi system/ ato are tied together and automated. There’s a air pump out there to pump in supplemental o2 if skimmer doesn’t keep up on ph.
Just have a nicrew Amazon light on it, which I’m surprisingly happy with for the price, and a very small fluval 24/7 light just for sunrise/sunset/lunar. (I have one of these 24/7 lights on every tank in my house that are all synced together for sunrise and sunset, it’s great)
Inside the tank currently is a few scaped pieces man made rock, with a very thin rubble “caraline” aragonite type bed.
1 clown and a 6 line wrasse, with a hearty cuc of a fire shrimp, conches, snails, hermit etc
Put in some zoas and a branching hammer recently. Did a hydrogen peroxide and coral Rx dip on them which got out MANY hitchhikers. Jesus. There’s some stupid decor to get the clown use to hosting for now.
Been up for a month or so, just getting settled in. Will post pics
Alright, later.
B
This is long winded, but I figure if we’re on here we have some spare time
Just started up my first salt after 20+ in fresh. Been breeding cichlids in ponds outside for the past 8 here in phx. Easy. Did high tech planted, and bred everything, did everything -Boring. So here I am haha
I don’t usually do forums and community stuff but I’d like to find a local group with similar interests whom I vibe with. My other interests of roping cattle, carpentry, farming, motorcycles & hot rods, homesteading etc doesn’t necessarily bring my sort of crowd haha
My current setup is a innovative marine 30 lagoon. I wanted to start small to make all the mistakes, and get a good ecosystem I can transfer to skip starting a larger tank later. I have quite literally purchased 90% of my equipment through trade with discount aquarium in Tempe throughout the past 5 years getting ready for this build.
The tank sits on a home made stand. (I’ve got a shop full of toys to make custom whatever.) the tank sits as soon as you enter the house. I am going for a statement RTBA tank eventually. Has an eshopps sump below with a hob reefocto1000 on the sump (with an outside airline) so I can run a fuge. In the cabinet there is also a kalk stirrer w doser, a carbon/gfo reactor, and apex. Which is a tight fit in a 23”x23” stand.
There is a very, very complicated apex system (I have 3 other apex systems on breeding ponds, discus, and office cichlid tank) running this tank, I don’t trust any of their other products (especially if I’m purchasing them used) or else I’d love the alktronic and master but looking at ghl alk doser. An iPad sitting next to it runs as display.
It sits against a garage wall which I went through so the tank and water mixing station/ rodi system/ ato are tied together and automated. There’s a air pump out there to pump in supplemental o2 if skimmer doesn’t keep up on ph.
Just have a nicrew Amazon light on it, which I’m surprisingly happy with for the price, and a very small fluval 24/7 light just for sunrise/sunset/lunar. (I have one of these 24/7 lights on every tank in my house that are all synced together for sunrise and sunset, it’s great)
Inside the tank currently is a few scaped pieces man made rock, with a very thin rubble “caraline” aragonite type bed.
1 clown and a 6 line wrasse, with a hearty cuc of a fire shrimp, conches, snails, hermit etc
Put in some zoas and a branching hammer recently. Did a hydrogen peroxide and coral Rx dip on them which got out MANY hitchhikers. Jesus. There’s some stupid decor to get the clown use to hosting for now.
Been up for a month or so, just getting settled in. Will post pics
Alright, later.
B
