Well I've been keepin freshwater for years and finally took the plunge. I always wanted a "built-in" tank and now it's here and it's in!!! 180g "see-thru" set-up shooting for a reef system. /equip is all listed in my sig. not much as i just wanted to "get things started". I plann on watching everything grow as thats 1/2 the fun.
I have about 200#s of dyi rock that is still curing. I put 2 pieces in and bought a small piced of "live" to get thing rollin. To everyones surprise when we fliped it over it had 2 small orange/sun polyps on it. I'm trying my damndest to keep these things alive!!!
I already lost one due to inexperience. I have a homeade refiguim out of a 55g tank. No plants yet. it fell apart and acted like a giant skimmer. To my surprise the next am the tank was filthy...goo everywhere and that claimed 1 of the polyps.
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Things are back under control and am patiently waiting for my dyi rock to cure so i can aqua scape!!
I have soo many little things poppin up off that pices of rock and as soon as i can downsize pics ill post them. tubeworms everythwere...lill fuzzy worms crawling...some purple polyp/anoneme type things...fuzzy tigerstriped worms swaying in the current. not sure what those are...little white bugs all over the glass and brown alge type stuff all over everything.
I'm looking forward to getting some expert advice from you all!! I already got a ton of knowledge just browsing thru. Nice crew here!!! looking forward to chatting with ya'll!!!