College Reefer

Yellow Eyes · Jun 23, 2016

Figured I would at least get one post on this forum.

I am currently in college, and got bit by the reefing bug by watching Youtube videos my 2nd year of college. Told myself I was going to wait until I graduated, but just couldn't. Started out deciding to buy the Nuvo16 package BRS was selling, which was never set up and instead became a 20tall with a 10g sump, which I had set up for almost 2 years. I had to switch apartments and upgraded to a 40breeder with a 29g sump.

Only livestock currently is a pair of occellaris clowns and a firefish. Mostly LPS corals, with a few SPS. I'm a gear junky so I try to automate as much as possible. I have an apex controlling everything, 2x Kessil 360we's for lighting, 2 mp10wqd and a mag5 for flow.

Love reading about other peoples tanks, and learning as much as I can about the hobby. look forward to hanging out on another forum.

kschweer · Jun 23, 2016

Looking good!! Welcome to R2R!

Yellow Eyes · Jun 23, 2016

Thanks, didn't realize the cellphone camera quality was so poor.

I guess here is another one with a filter to make some of the colors pop.

Diesel · Jun 23, 2016

Keep it coming!

melypr1985 · Jun 23, 2016

Looks great! Welcome to R2R!

Blackhawk Fan · Jun 24, 2016

Welcome to R2R!

MermaidTail · Jun 24, 2016

Welcome! Great tank- love those Acans.

KJ · Jun 24, 2016

Welcome to R2R!

Tanked_Life · Jun 24, 2016

College + Reeftank = Bad idea.....

But Totally Worth it! GL man I'm in my senior year at college and ran my tank by myself ever since junior year of highschool!

dochow · Jun 24, 2016

I had a freshwater and then saltwater in college, nothing like tuition dollars going to pay for corals....

4FordFamily · Jun 24, 2016

Welcome home, you will love it here! For me it hit me the year after highschool (I didn't go to college until a few years later).

Stretching a dollar and getting used to it because I didn't have any money was immensely helpful!

AllSignsPointToFish · Jun 24, 2016

Nice tank and cool story! My story is similar

I ran into my first reef tank at the local pet store when I was in college, and I knew instantly I was hooked. However, there was no way I could afford such a hobby in college, so I figured I'd wait until after graduation.

When I bought my first house shortly after college, it, by chance, came with a built-in 90 FOWLR with a clarkii clown and two damsels. I spent the next five years transforming that tank into a reef complete with metal halides and bubble tip anemones.

After about five years, I moved and said goodbye to reefing as the built-in tank had to stay with the house. I moved a couple of times over the next ten years when I bought my current house a year and a half ago. My wife's friend was moving to Washington, and she gave me a reef ready 125 gallon tank that she had in storage, and thus my reefing days returned after a 10 year hiatus. Both times, the reefing bug has bitten me and yet I've never purchased a single display tank