One year in and I'm starting over

Hello Reef2Reef!

My first tank had it's first birthday about a week and a half ago and there is no doubt I'm hooked! The only problem is that I also hate my tank. Hate my tank as in the actual hardware of my setup (and maybe a few other things). Long story short, noob makes noob mistakes. Not enough research causes many headaches. I've tried to band aid it together, but there are shortcomings that are just too hard to overcome.

After lurking here for quite some time, I decided to take my new knowledge, and just this morning, started adding water to a new system, this time designed from the start to be a saltwater home for my fish and corals. Of course even in the few hours I've spent assembling the new system to prepare for the long cycle, I've found that I still have a million questions and I still know a fraction of what I'd like to know about this hobby!

So here I am, posting to say hello, and to say you'll probably be hearing a bit more from me as I start on a fresh adventure with my new tank. So happy to have a resource like this.

I perpetually start over, in fact everyone who corrects a mistake is starting over, so you are in good company. I had to learn how to hurry up and wait, a couple of kicks to the face and I now get it. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, a lesson I learnt at 100 MPH on a motorcycle, going around a track. Can you believe my speed was the same, but I got around quicker. :D
 
Welcome to R2R!!

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Welcome to the R2R community !!
 
Thank you for the very warm welcome! The new tank (Innovative Marine Fusion Pro 50 Lagoon AIO) is finally full of water (my mixing station is great for water changes not so much filling a whole tank) and I'm just waiting for the last of the dust to settle before adding some bacteria to jump start the cycle. Super excited about this one and hoping to not repeat too many mistakes. Looking forward to sharing my progress with everyone here.

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I perpetually start over, in fact everyone who corrects a mistake is starting over, so you are in good company. I had to learn how to hurry up and wait, a couple of kicks to the face and I now get it. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, a lesson I learnt at 100 MPH on a motorcycle, going around a track. Can you believe my speed was the same, but I got around quicker. :D
Great analogy. Or is it a metaphor? I don't think it is a parable. Almost an allegory but not quite. Lets go with analogy.
 
I think many of us have been there. If money were no object we'd all go overboard. I use to be one who learned from others mistakes, but technically that's hogwash. The only way we learn is by making mistakes, or at least that's the case with me. Same with working in cars, usually by the 3rd time you've got it down.

Welcome aboard.
 
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Welcome to RR. Do you intend to quarantine initial entrants to your new tank?
 
Welcome to RR. Do you intend to quarantine initial entrants to your new tank?

The plan is to quarantine anything new. I have four fish that will be coming over from the old system (bonded pair of mocha clownfish and a bonded pair of yellow watchman gobies). They were my first saltwater fish and I'm pretty darn attached to them!
 
The plan is to quarantine anything new. I have four fish that will be coming over from the old system (bonded pair of mocha clownfish and a bonded pair of yellow watchman gobies). They were my first saltwater fish and I'm pretty darn attached to them!

I'm to the point now where if I started over again I'd be quarantining all corals because dipping obviously doesn't get rid of all the nuisances like bubble algae, some sort of tube worm that has taken over and some mini ray-like parasite that likes to attack hammer skeletons.
 

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