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Hi. I've been in the hobby for a number of years and have participated on other forums, but just started to really dive in here on R2R.
I live on the NW side of Columbus (Go Bucks!) and am an active member of Central Ohio Reef Aquarists ("CORA").

I'm a BIG Z&P lover and now that I am really using this site, I have been ogling a lot on the "Club Zoa" forum. I am also ​a sucker for reef-safe wrasses.

My DT is a customized DSA Neo 90 (36"x24"x24") with an external overflow, lit with 2 AI Sol Blues and using 2 MP40wESs for flow. My DT is about 15' (and 2 walls) away from my fish room, where I have my "rack" with a 75 gallon sump and the 45g 48"x18"x12" frag tank that I made this summer (took 2 cracked 75s I got from local guys, salvaged the unbroken panes, cut them down, and re-assembled using the salvaged rims. And YES, it is holding water after 4 months!). The frag tank is lit with 2 AIs as well and has a single MP40w on it. I have what I call a GEO jungle (rock solid equipment made right here in Central Ohio) - Beckett skimmer with a Reeflo Tarpon pump, calcium reactor, kalk reactor, GFO reactor, carbon reactor (when used) - on the rack as well. Everything is controlled through my Apex and all returns and reactors are run off of a Reeflo Dart feeding a manifold.

Looking forward to getting involved with the discussions here!
 
Welcome to R2R !! Make sure you post some pics of your setup


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Welcome! Yea you gotta show some pics now!

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Welcome to R2R Rob!

We appreciate your membership!

Thanks for joining and please make sure to post often!

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So, I have a nice camera, but no skills to match the equipment yet. Nor do I have a macro lens, so I am challenged when it comes to close ups.
But anywho.... here are some pics of the set up.
Here is a pic of the main tank. Stand is a typical 2x frame. Skin of stand and floating canopy are made of lumber milled from a pin oak felled on my parents farm.
Second shot is of the "fish room". QT tank is left bottom foreground and you can see the skimmer back a ways behind it. "GEO Jungle" on top, frag tank middle, sump bottom. Just right of the pic, out of the shot, is my water mixing/changing station. Lots of stuff in a compact space.
Third shot is a FTS of the main tank. I am not a huge fan of my current aquascaping - really would like to get a little more verticality to it, but there really isn't a lot of rock there and there are all sorts of gaps/caves/holes for all the fishes (and I have a lot of them) to move around and hide.
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Welcome to r2r! Gorgeous nems

Thanks! The one on top in the pic actually split about 2 days ago (the "parent" looks pretty happy and healthy for just having ripped part of itself off, eh? lol) and the clone is down behind the lower one. NOT going to be easy to fish out of there, but gotta keep them under control.
 

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