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Hello fellow reefers!

I am currently doing a school project on coral aquariums and the communities that surround them. I was looking into buying my own setup, but I noticed it was quiet expensive and also requires a bit of maintenance. I do hope that one day I can get my own setup going.

I was wondering what the biggest challenges you have faced when making your aquariums? And also what the most rewarding thing about cultivating corals has been for you?

Thank you!
 
Tidal Gardens
Welcome to R2R!! :)

Finding the right balance of nutrients and elements

Watching the reef grown
 
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Welcome to R2R!!! We're glad you're here! Many of the challenges are related to understanding water and becoming the best water keepers that we can be. Once we figure out that part then usually the fish, coral, and other livestock will thrive.
 
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WWC
Welcome. The expense of this hobby is rough but most things you only have to buy once every few years if all goes well. You run into all kinds of stuff with reef keeping, what fish are reef safe, what fish are compatible, what corals need to go in what par range and glow range, concept of even flow dispersed or random crashing flow, what elements to dose for, keeping everything stable, and above all thr patience to watch it all slowly come together. By far for me is the most rewarding hobby. I see clown pair up and live together while an anemone will host them, pistol shrimps and yellow gobies living in symbiosis, schooling fish swimming together, inverts fighting over a shell that's too small for either of them. Random thing popping up in a tank, like pods, feather dusters, algae, corals growing, CLAMS one of my favs, all the way down to balancing the light spectrum to a blue hue I like lol. It's all fun but definitely can be challenging. It's a blast. Also you fall in love with rocks for some reason....
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Nutramar Foods
The up front costs are the worst. Ongoing costs and maintenance aren't too bad once it stabilizes. I'd bet u could get some great deals or donations of I were serious about longer term.

Seeing a coral that didn't do anything for 5 months all of a sudden take off, start growing, and show it's true colors is the best I've done. It's rewarding u for your patience and for not giving up on it.

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Deltec
Welcome to the club.

A project sounds great, any idea exactly what type of product? There are so many things. most things in reef tanks take time to show change so the project would be a smaller one. Look into used equipment on a small scale and keep it simple to start and it can be done. Ask lot of ?’s

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Welcome to a whole different world. Be careful. Your research into to this lifestyle (and for many of us it IS a lifestyle) may suck you in to the reefing addiction.
As far as the challenges: For me it is getting to better understand the intricacies and demands of the ecosystem we are trying to create.
As far as rewards: Being able to use that (limited) understanding to create a living, constantly changing work of art in my home. It's remarkably satisfying.
 
Nutramar Foods
Successes are overcoming the challenges which are water chemistry, rushing, stocking too quickly, over feeding, acquiring poor quality livestock , inadequate or poor lighting, cheap testing supplies and malfunction of equipment such as pumps and heaters

Welcome to the R2R community !!
 
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