Sycamoron
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- Joined
- Aug 24, 2020
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- Location
- Sycamore
- What state or country do you live in
- Illinois
Hi everyone. With no travel for the past 5 months and none planned, it seems this is a fine time to start up a reef tank. Travel and my reef tank aren't friends.
I had a 90 gal tank and then replaced it with a 120 gal tank. Between them, I had about 10 years of reef keeping, mostly fish and softies. Then, rushing to finish a DI cartridge change the morning we left for a 10 day business & vacation trip, I forgot that I had left the DI line valve cracked open. That line was over a sump, so by the time we got home, salinity had dropped drastically and everything in the tank was dead. The trauma of that ended my reefing.
Two years later, I'm back, aiming to keep things small and simple. And no more business travel since retirement. My 16 gal Coralife Biocube is cycling now. I'm in no hurry to add fish or coral and am spending the time catching up on what's changed (so you don't want 0 phosphate or nitrate anymore, huh), and reading through people's build threads. I'm glad to be back.
I had a 90 gal tank and then replaced it with a 120 gal tank. Between them, I had about 10 years of reef keeping, mostly fish and softies. Then, rushing to finish a DI cartridge change the morning we left for a 10 day business & vacation trip, I forgot that I had left the DI line valve cracked open. That line was over a sump, so by the time we got home, salinity had dropped drastically and everything in the tank was dead. The trauma of that ended my reefing.
Two years later, I'm back, aiming to keep things small and simple. And no more business travel since retirement. My 16 gal Coralife Biocube is cycling now. I'm in no hurry to add fish or coral and am spending the time catching up on what's changed (so you don't want 0 phosphate or nitrate anymore, huh), and reading through people's build threads. I'm glad to be back.
