Started 2 years ago with a 38 gallon tank and the hobby grew until I was forced to downsize tanks and take grief from my now almost 5 year old son. I have since pieced together a new tank, 55 gallon, with bits and pieces from people on various sites. I have mostly frags, along with a diatom problem mainly caused by lack of flow as the power heads from my smaller tank are not enough. New baby due march 27 put a smaller budget on the tank and I am starting to watch zoas and the few sps close up from diatom suffocation.
My lighting and filtration were upgraded thanks to a family member and I am now running a 6 bulb tek light, eshopps sump and older (but efficient) hydor skimmer. I am almost complete, just can't afford to provide the tank with more flow and am afraid of having to downsize everything again.
#brown tank= no fun