Dana Riddles personal aquarium?

Robthorn · Jan 17, 2017

Hey guys and gals,

I am curious if anyone has seen Dana Riddles personal aquarium. I know he has a mess of advice out there. Some of which would wipe out my tank like raising alkalinity. Others it works great for. I am always just curious to see what those telling us how to do things are doing in there own systems.
I have seen many of the major players like Sprung, Sanjay, Randy and Mike Palletta and all are very respectable. I am just curious to see Dana's set up.

Thank you in advance everyone and Dana if you see this feel free to post up some pics.

THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE IN ANY WAY.

reefwiser · Jan 17, 2017

Dana has been living in Hawaii for several years now. He could walk out of his front door and be in the ocean. He is moving to the States soon he is building a home in the Atlanta area. Hawaii puts great limits on what you can keep in an aquarium any more. An he is excited to move back to the states to set up a reef without the limits he currently lives under.

Robthorn · Jan 17, 2017

Aww man it sucks bring old and forgetful.

Thank you very much. I knew this but it escaped my mind.

May as well close this unless someone has pictures of his tank before he moved.

Maybe we should start a thread of high profile article/book writters? Would be fun to see.

saltyfilmfolks · Jan 17, 2017

reefwiser said:
Dana has been living in Hawaii for several years now. He could walk out of his front door and be in the ocean. He is moving to the States soon he is building a home in the Atlanta area. Hawaii puts great limits on what you can keep in an aquarium any more. An he is excited to move back to the states to set up a reef without the limits he currently lives under.

Robthorn said:
Aww man it sucks bring old and forgetful.

Thank you very much. I knew this but it escaped my mind.

May as well close this unless someone has pictures of his tank before he moved.

Maybe we should start a thread of high profile article/book writters? Would be fun to see.

Yea, Id like to see his new tank build too.

nervousmonkey · Jan 17, 2017

I heard from him online that he flew to Atlanta to oversee the area where his tank will be located in the home he's building here, but don't know timelines on the construction or when the tank build will start. Would be cool if he did a tank build on a forum somewhere (here for example

), but can't say...

saltyfilmfolks · Jan 17, 2017

nervousmonkey said:
I heard from him online that he flew to Atlanta to oversee the area where his tank will be located in the home he's building here, but don't know timelines on the construction or when the tank build will start. Would be cool if he did a tank build on a forum somewhere (here for example ), but can't say...

Hmmmm. Maybe if we knew any body in Atlanta they could check it out

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I though he was already moved. He retired from Hawaii right after this last macna.

revhtree · Jan 17, 2017

Hey I'm not far from ATL so I would be happy to go check out his new system as he builds it!

nervousmonkey · Jan 17, 2017

Yeah, I don't know if the move has been made, only because his house was/is/used to be under construction, but he may be in ATL. I'll see if he is here permanently and if he is allowing people to come visit his tank. Would be a cool article to write up, Dana Riddle's Tank....

saltyfilmfolks · Jan 17, 2017

revhtree said:
Hey I'm not far from ATL so I would be happy to go check out his new system as he builds it!

nervousmonkey said:
Yeah, I don't know if the move has been made, only because his house was/is/used to be under construction, but he may be in ATL. I'll see if he is here permanently and if he is allowing people to come visit his tank. Would be a cool article to write up, Dana Riddle's Tank....

You guys should car pool. Tip, make cookies. Reefers like cookies.

Robthorn · Jan 17, 2017

Shoot you can carpool to my house if you bring chocolate chip.

nervousmonkey · Jan 17, 2017

Robthorn said:
Shoot you can carpool to my house if you bring chocolate chip.

HAHA! Since you live in Largo, I would carpool for a vacation...

nervousmonkey · Jan 17, 2017

revhtree said:
Hey I'm not far from ATL so I would be happy to go check out his new system as he builds it!

Where is Heaven on Earth Rev. David? Are you close to ATL really? If you are truly in Heaven On Earth, you cannot actually be IN Atlanta...

Robthorn · Jan 17, 2017

Just remember its the Clearwater area not Key Largo. If you get down here on vacation look me up.

nervousmonkey · Jan 17, 2017

yeah, I grew up in Tampa. I love the west coast of Florida. Key Largo is fun and all, but that's not where I meant. Have family in Sarasota, friends in Ft. Myers, etc. so am serious about coming down to go on vacation, and I will definitely give you a shout when I'm in the area. Always fun to get advice on places to go from fellow reefers.

Robthorn · Jan 17, 2017

Sounds good Monkey. Still some of the same ol stores with some new ones. I have several friends with stores/aquaculture facilities and such. If are looking to buy coral while on vacation I can hook you up on coral deals for sure. Mainly acros though.

nervousmonkey · Jan 17, 2017

Sounds great! I always need more acros. Never enough

Robthorn · Jan 17, 2017

Hahaha. I have 1 or 2 frags at the moment. Maybe more like 100. Good thing I have only cut things that need to be cut so far. Running out of sand space.