Long time reefer, new to this site

[shaggydoo]

Hello everyone,

I originally started in the hobby back in 2004 or so and had a 18g nano for a couple years (couldn't find any old pics). Then I had a 120g mixed reef for a couple more years and I did find one pic below:

My prior reefs taught me so much about this hobby. I was also one of the first in my local reef club (UT) to solely use T5 with SPS/Clams, and had great success.

I've always been captivated by cubes. I almost started a 60g cube back in 2006ish instead of my 120g, and now I've come back to a 60g LPS only cube. I started the tank on 1/15/2017 and it looked like this:

I've had some ups and downs with this tank, but I think it is coming along nicely. This is the tank as seen last weekend:

LPS are by far my favorite coral, so that is all I'm putting into this tank coral wise. I'm running a AI Hydra 26 HD, and I run it very blue because I want color and I'm not too concerned about growth in a smaller tank. I've always run skimmerless with large amounts of chaeto and aggressive harvesting of macro algae.

Overall, I just wanted to give some background on myself, and I've heard this is a great forum. I look forward to reading, learning and meeting new people on this forum. Thanks for reading

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Welcome to R2R. Nice tanks. I'm new to saltwater and on the process of building my first saltwater reef tank. A lot to read and a lot learn here but the most I like of R2R is the help I received from other members.

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R. Nice looking tank.

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R. That's a great looking cube you have there!

 

[Whipples]

Welcome! I, too, love the cube look and want to do one in the future, post some more pics of your cube when you can!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Welcome to Reef2reef! Nice tank.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[shaggydoo]

Thank you all for the kind words, and, I think I'm going to like this forum... already so many positive and nice replies. Thanks again to all, and here are a few more pics of my current tank as requested

I also used to be a bit of a photography nerd and had a great camera. The pictures I'm taking now are so terrible compared to old photos. Below are a few of my old favorites:

This guy was so hard to catch on camera:

I need a new camera with a good macro lens again. Enjoy all!