Mrs.K's reef adventure 2.0

[MrsK]

After about 6 months without a box of ocean in my life, I'm back in the hobby.

 

We moved in October 2021 and at the time, I was on tank burnout. I felt overwhelmed and had lost the love. The only problem was that reefing in my small town was almost non-existent and those who were in the hobby didn't have the $$ to take my whole setup. Thankfully, a reefing friend said that he'd keep my tank happy and healthy until I was able to sell it or decided to pick it up.

Fast forward to about a month ago when I finally had an interested buyer for my 40 breeder. Here's a pic 👇🏼

 

 

I kept having second thoughts about selling but I knew that the buyer had a lot of experience and a thriving reef at home.

 

Now on to the reason for this thread!!

Little reminders of the hobby were popping up all over my social media and I realized a couple weeks ago that I needed this hobby in my life.

Facebook Marketplace found me a great deal on a Coralife Biocube 16 LED and I jumped at the chance.

 

My plan is to keep it simple.

 

Right now, the only upgrade has been a Sicce Syncra Silent 1.5 in the return chamber. I haven't decided on what to do for the middle chamber, maybe a mini refugium?

 

LFS water and rock has been in the tank since April 22nd. I will be continuing to use their water for my weekly water change as they use Fritz Pro (blue box) and it was very successful with my last tank. Also, I didn't want to get another RO/DI unit and make water because that is where my burnout started.

 

My aquascape is a work in progress but is really growing on me. The rock is live and was cured and cycled by my LFS.

I'll be going bare bottom for this build because I hated the sand in my last tank.

April 22nd:

 

Last week, I added a Hygger wave maker to give a bit more flow and I'm pretty impressed with this little thing.

 

On May 1st I added a Tail Spot Blenny, one of my most favorite nano fish, and an acan frag. Here's the TSB in his hidey hole.

 

The acan was more pink and peach at the LFS but it has a golden look to it in the white light and a reddish look under the blue spectrum.

 

Thanks for checking out my new thread ☺️

Happy reefing🏼✌️

[debbeach13]

Welcome back. Good luck with the new set up.

 

[sadie]

welcome back!  Nice tank can't wait to see what you do with it.

[Ratvan]

welcome back, looking forwards to seeing what you do with this one 

[NoOneLikesADryTang]

Welcome back! Are you still in Arizona? If so, I’d be happy to give you some frags. We’re in Mesa. 

[MrsK]

23 hours ago, NoOneLikesADryTang said:

Welcome back! Are you still in Arizona? If so, I’d be happy to give you some frags. We’re in Mesa. 

Thank you and yes.

I am in Tucson and I would greatly appreciate any frag you'd be willing to part with!!

 

On 5/8/2022 at 4:12 AM, debbeach13 said:

Welcome back. Good luck with the new set up.

 

 

On 5/8/2022 at 6:18 AM, sadie said:

welcome back!  Nice tank can't wait to see what you do with it.

 

On 5/9/2022 at 2:40 AM, Ratvan said:

welcome back, looking forwards to seeing what you do with this one 

Thank you all. I'm excited to get going again!

[NoOneLikesADryTang]

1 hour ago, MrsK said:

Thank you and yes.

I am in Tucson and I would greatly appreciate any frag you'd be willing to part with!!

Sweet! The tank keeper grew up in Tucson, and her folks still live there. So we head down to visit them fairly often. I’ll reach out the next time we’re heading down, to see if you’re in town/available. Are you using Fishy Bizness or Shark Reef for your water? 

[MrsK]

@NoOneLikesADryTang That would be great! Thanks again 🙂

 

I'm using Shark Reef for salt and RO since they are only about 5 ish minutes away from my house.