ReeferBoo Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Hey All, I'm Roland and I've been a regular lurker in NR for more than a year-and-a-half now. I've been into the hobby for roughly the same amount of time. I got hooked when my girlfriend and I got a 5 gallon tank with a few freshwater fish, then I decided that I wanted one too but the girlfriend suggested that I try something different...and the rest, as they say... is history. Recent FTS-May 2012 Started with a "saltwater tank package" offered by a local LFS (I'm from the Philippines btw). Inclusions of the said package were a 20 gallon tank, an overhead filter, a cheapo light, a floating hydrometer, some saltwater, sand and some liverock (all for a little over 30$) At this point, I had very little knowledge about keeping a captive reef, and as you can see, the set-up I ended up with left a lot to be desired. So while cycling the tank, I did a lot of reading (it's a good thing that the local LFS introduced me to a local reef forum), and I went ahead and added a 15G sump, 2 wavemakers, an appropriate lighting fixture, and a few more lbs of liverock. This is what I ended up with After adding the first few batches of livestock fast forward a few weeks/months and the tank looked like this to this and this and this just kidding :D After a year, this is how the tank looked like As, you can see, I was in dire need of additional space for my coral frags (I am absolutely in love with zoas and ricordeas and couldn't have enough). This is why I decided to upgrade to a slightly bigger tank with much wider and shallower dimensions. and thus, The "big transfer day" The final product The new tank's dimensions are: 24x22x12, I also added a bigger sump 20G recent FTS Current tank details: -24x22x12 DT, with a laser-cut overflow box -24x16x12 Sump, 3 chambers Chamber 1:intake of overflow, heater, a few lbs of LR, some brittle stars and a scarlet hermit Chamber 2: fuge, a huge ball of chaeto and some type of caulerpa, more liverocks, more brittle stars, and a pair of halloween hermits Chamber 3: return pump and AC Filtration: -Around 40+ lbs of Liverock -Chaeto Equipment: 2 3watt Resun Wavemakers Haqos heater Resun s-1500 return pump Aquazonic 24" quad t5HO 2actinic blue and 2 12000K super sun whites Aquahouse fuge light Link to comment
Bekolsyra Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Looks beautiful! Do you get some nice corals over there? Maybe you could even find some broken off frags by some of the reefs.. Nice. Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 Thanks! we do have a nice selection of corals here since we have access to a sizable area of the Indo-Pacific. I now try to stay away from wild collected corals though and stick to the tank raised frags from local reefers. Link to comment
Criley7 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Looks beautiful!Do you get some nice corals over there? Maybe you could even find some broken off frags by some of the reefs.. Nice. Nice tank Link to comment
Spirofucci Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Beautiful tank, nice and clean. Love the scape. Nice tank in your bedroom! Link to comment
bwoodward0012 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 makes me wish i still lived in Guam. my dad had a 40 gallon when we lived there in the early 90's that he completely stocked with things he collected while diving, even finding a baby moray hitcher that was in our tank for like a month before we found it because the fish were starting to disappear. I probably wouldn't collect from the wild but i loved being able to snorkel and dive and see it all. nice progress, whats that other shallow tank in the background of the new set up before the transfer? Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 Nice tank Thank you Beautiful tank, nice and clean. Love the scape. Nice tank in your bedroom! Thanks! I'm thinking about moving that big LPS island on the right to the back of the tank so that I'll have more space at the front, there are a few zoanthids and a green lobophyllia behind it, but it's hard to see them when the euphyllias are in full bloom How I wish that was my bedroom! lol, It's from an ocean-themed hotel in Manila, stayed there one weekend as a birthday present from my girlfriend I'm sooo thankful that she supports my hobby :lol: makes me wish i still lived in Guam. my dad had a 40 gallon when we lived there in the early 90's that he completely stocked with things he collected while diving, even finding a baby moray hitcher that was in our tank for like a month before we found it because the fish were starting to disappear. I probably wouldn't collect from the wild but i loved being able to snorkel and dive and see it all. nice progress, whats that other shallow tank in the background of the new set up before the transfer? Thank you! Wow that must have been fun, the nearest beach is a 3 hour drive from where I live, so I don't get to visit it often, but I love snorkeling and I jump at every opportunity to visit some of the most pristine waters around the Philippines. In fact, I just came back from a trip to Sorsogon Island, where I had the most breathtaking experience of swimming with whalesharks. Here are a few photos That other tank was supposed to be a frag tank, but I scrapped the idea, and it's now sitting in the storage room, along with all the other unused aquarium stuff. Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Thank you for the kind words Jail1985 Here are a few random shots of my livestock when they were in the old tank Link to comment
Jai1985 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Thank you for the kind words Jail1985 gotta love auto correct lol Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 ROFL! sorry bout that! haha Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 The Fish Gang The mandarin doesn't like group pictures Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 I did say I love zoanthids right? Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Thanks Paige! ,..just checked out your thread and found out that you're pretty much in love with zoanthids too Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Thank you iroll Moar ZOAS omgomgomg Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Yuma collection I have no idea how to resize pictures here Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Thanks Bakenn! I plan to have half of my exposed sand bed covered with yumas Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 page 2 yey! Thank you Paigee They're all from local waters, the one with a metallic orange middle though is from HK. It's my only imported coral Link to comment
JR! Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 awesome build man. id love to have some of the yamas. no one around here sells them Link to comment
ReeferBoo Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Thanks JR , you have an awesome build yourself, that stand is sooooo organized, and the scape is killer. That sucks, but then you have pretty sweet ricordea floridas over there, so that more than makes up for it IMO Link to comment
JR! Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 hahaha i guess. people would have a carry rics over here too. they seem to not keep them anymore lol Link to comment
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