Andrew52984
Member
Hello everyone, my name is Andrew and I've been in the hobby since May of this year. I have never thought of owning a SW tank until my wife told me to get a fish tank for my 24th birthday in May, think she was thinkin somethin small and a freshwater, I decided how awesome would it be to have a saltwater tank! At that time I had never even seen a saltwater aquarium in person except at a zoo or some type of wildlife park or museum. We ventured into the Old Town Aquarium here in Wichita and they had an established 46g Bowfront tank and stand with a Marineland C220 canister filter, pc lights, and 25lbs of live rand and a two inch SSB for $400. So I bought it. Lol, had no idea what I was getting myself into. From that night on, bein a total computer nerd, I immediately hopped on the net. Came across RS and have been an avid member ever since! A quick thank you to all for your input, answers, comments, and all around help to me in this hobby, its very much appreciated! Anyway, still have the 46g bowfront, up an runnin smooth with weekly water changes. Current upgrades: Tek Light 4x39w t5's. AquaC Remora HOB skimmer w/MJ1200. Originally came with crushed coral, swapped for 3 inch Sb of CaribSea Sugarsized sand and Caribsea Live aragonite, and added another 20 lbs. live rock. In July I purchased a 12g aquapod for my oldest boy on his 8th birthday, currently running buy does not have any fish in it(he's so picky and is still deciding what he wants), it has 18 lbs live rock and black aragonite ssb(really cool).
After I purchased the aquapod, I was really wanting to add a new fish to the 46g but wasn't sure what I wanted. At the time I had a lawnmower blenny and two false percs. My wife thought she would be really nice and go buy me a fish(without researching) she went to the LFS and they sold her a blue hippo tang that was the size of a quarter. I was NOT happy, and this LFS wouldn't take it back so I said fine I'll find someone to take it. After a few days and no responses online, and my wife and kids falling in love with the fish, my wife came to me and said I think we're just gonna have to get a bigger tank....and after I got ahold of myself because my wife was giving me permission to buy a bigger tank, I said ok we can but not from who you got the fish from! Since then I had been saving and looking around for a used tank and even researching new ones. I was planning on a small 125 long room divider in our upstairs living room til I came across this on craigslist(some of you may have seen this post previously http://wichita.craigslist.org/for/887266104.html). So I bought it, for $1200, and the movers delivered it today! The tank was up and running when I went and looked at it, and the water was crystal clear! No algae present and the rock has GREAT pinks, greens and purples all over!
Contents included:
Almost 2 year old 240G Tall Perfecto 72"x24"31" - blue background(rattlecanned, will soon be scraped and painted black).
Pine stand 32" tall(soon to be upgraded to a taller stand) total height is 5'2", i'm six foot. I'd like the top to be eye level...possibly.
Wet/Dry filtration system, bioballs,pump and plumbing included. Will most likely be converted to a sump after tank is drilled and overflows installed.
2 Koralia 4's
Over 250 lbs. of live rock, currently in two brute's in the garage, pics below. I'm going to weigh all of it before it enters the tank to get an exact weight on it all. Most is Fiji with some Tonga branch.
2 36" Coralife Deluxe Lunar Aqualights, each has two 10000k's and two actinics with lunar moonlights(will definately be upgraded soon!).
Tons of accesories, food and supplements(some pictured)
Live stock:
5.5" Clown Trigger - beautiful fish and very docile.....currently lol
5" Humu Humu Trigger - extremely docile, can hand feed
5.5"(maybe close to six) Miniatus Grouper (very very shy)
Can't think of anything else, getting tired, I work at 2 am lol, gotta go to bed, so here's some pics! This will be a pic heavy post, sorry for such a LONG initial post! They'll get shorter(I hope) More pics and future plans to come tomorrow! Thanks for reading!
Moving it in
Full room view
My boys and the tank
Wet/Dry in stand
Box o lights!
Top o tank, glass tops aren't on it yet, gotta clean em but the lights are on it lol.
After I purchased the aquapod, I was really wanting to add a new fish to the 46g but wasn't sure what I wanted. At the time I had a lawnmower blenny and two false percs. My wife thought she would be really nice and go buy me a fish(without researching) she went to the LFS and they sold her a blue hippo tang that was the size of a quarter. I was NOT happy, and this LFS wouldn't take it back so I said fine I'll find someone to take it. After a few days and no responses online, and my wife and kids falling in love with the fish, my wife came to me and said I think we're just gonna have to get a bigger tank....and after I got ahold of myself because my wife was giving me permission to buy a bigger tank, I said ok we can but not from who you got the fish from! Since then I had been saving and looking around for a used tank and even researching new ones. I was planning on a small 125 long room divider in our upstairs living room til I came across this on craigslist(some of you may have seen this post previously http://wichita.craigslist.org/for/887266104.html). So I bought it, for $1200, and the movers delivered it today! The tank was up and running when I went and looked at it, and the water was crystal clear! No algae present and the rock has GREAT pinks, greens and purples all over!
Contents included:
Almost 2 year old 240G Tall Perfecto 72"x24"31" - blue background(rattlecanned, will soon be scraped and painted black).
Pine stand 32" tall(soon to be upgraded to a taller stand) total height is 5'2", i'm six foot. I'd like the top to be eye level...possibly.
Wet/Dry filtration system, bioballs,pump and plumbing included. Will most likely be converted to a sump after tank is drilled and overflows installed.
2 Koralia 4's
Over 250 lbs. of live rock, currently in two brute's in the garage, pics below. I'm going to weigh all of it before it enters the tank to get an exact weight on it all. Most is Fiji with some Tonga branch.
2 36" Coralife Deluxe Lunar Aqualights, each has two 10000k's and two actinics with lunar moonlights(will definately be upgraded soon!).
Tons of accesories, food and supplements(some pictured)
Live stock:
5.5" Clown Trigger - beautiful fish and very docile.....currently lol
5" Humu Humu Trigger - extremely docile, can hand feed
5.5"(maybe close to six) Miniatus Grouper (very very shy)
Can't think of anything else, getting tired, I work at 2 am lol, gotta go to bed, so here's some pics! This will be a pic heavy post, sorry for such a LONG initial post! They'll get shorter(I hope) More pics and future plans to come tomorrow! Thanks for reading!
Moving it in
Full room view
My boys and the tank
Wet/Dry in stand
Box o lights!
Top o tank, glass tops aren't on it yet, gotta clean em but the lights are on it lol.
if your interested, fun thread
. I am using eggcrate, went with the white eggcrate from home depot, and actually added almost all my rock, mainly just the bottom big base pieces, then added the 80 lbs of sand like you said tonight. Its a dust storm but its clearing up quicker than I thought. Can't wait to post pictures tomorrow!