Captain Jack
Community Member
Hello everyone,
I am new to the reefing hobby. My wife and I bought our daughter a 125 gallon aquarium for Christmas. We started thinking that salt water tanks were a lot cooler than freshwater. Then after looking at pictures on the internet decided that reef aquariums were even cooler! We knew nothing about reef aquariums, or how much money all this would cost! After about 40-50 hours of research and customer reviews etc...we finally have water in the tank! It has been about 10 days now and I just added a raw shrimp yesterday, so I'm hoping in a couple weeks being able to add fish? After getting into the hobby, I am pretty much addicted to it now! I still have a ton to learn, but enjoy researching it. I plan on starting out with a pair of clown fish and then getting a couple yellow tangs as long as the clowns are doing well. I then plan on adding several kinds of soft and stoney coral. I built a custom stand for the aquarium and added 3 separate 20 amp breakers for the aquarium. I have quite a few hours into all the plumbing, electrical, stand etc... but I enjoy doing that stuff, so it was fun.
I have a 125 gallon tank that I drilled myself, 16" Synergy Shadow overflow, 72" T5 light with 3 halides built in. Apex reef Jr with and added an Apex 8 outlet, 40 watt UV sterilizer, Tunze ATO, BRS media reactor, 1750 GPH Reef Octopus return pump, 36 inch Skimz sump, 200+ gallon Skimz skimmer, 4 Hydor powerheads 1500 GPM, BRS RODI system, 160 lbs of live rock, 2 bags of live sand, and also a large credit card bill!
I am new to the reefing hobby. My wife and I bought our daughter a 125 gallon aquarium for Christmas. We started thinking that salt water tanks were a lot cooler than freshwater. Then after looking at pictures on the internet decided that reef aquariums were even cooler! We knew nothing about reef aquariums, or how much money all this would cost! After about 40-50 hours of research and customer reviews etc...we finally have water in the tank! It has been about 10 days now and I just added a raw shrimp yesterday, so I'm hoping in a couple weeks being able to add fish? After getting into the hobby, I am pretty much addicted to it now! I still have a ton to learn, but enjoy researching it. I plan on starting out with a pair of clown fish and then getting a couple yellow tangs as long as the clowns are doing well. I then plan on adding several kinds of soft and stoney coral. I built a custom stand for the aquarium and added 3 separate 20 amp breakers for the aquarium. I have quite a few hours into all the plumbing, electrical, stand etc... but I enjoy doing that stuff, so it was fun.
I have a 125 gallon tank that I drilled myself, 16" Synergy Shadow overflow, 72" T5 light with 3 halides built in. Apex reef Jr with and added an Apex 8 outlet, 40 watt UV sterilizer, Tunze ATO, BRS media reactor, 1750 GPH Reef Octopus return pump, 36 inch Skimz sump, 200+ gallon Skimz skimmer, 4 Hydor powerheads 1500 GPM, BRS RODI system, 160 lbs of live rock, 2 bags of live sand, and also a large credit card bill!
