Tarasco
Active Member
All right, many of you have seen these pics before, but I thought that I'd throw some background into this.
It all started when I began dating my current fiance. She had one of those betta bowls with the glass seperating them, so there could be three in the same little 2 gallon tank, and they would flare up when they saw each other. I loved this. So for my birthday, she bought be one of these tanks that could hold 6 of them.
This did well for about a year, until I did something wrong, and all but 1 died. The sudden deaths made me wonder what happened, so I did a little research. Found out about filtration, and all that other good stuff. So I took out the dividers so that the one betta left (a pearl betta named "Zero") could have more room, and bought a couple tetras. This did great until Zero jumped.
Around this time, we were hanging out at a mexican food joint when we took a look at their saltwater tank. Had an anenome, clownfish, some softies, shrimp, and the one fish that she loved, a flame hawk. We actually would go to this place and eat just so she could see her "swim and sit" fish. This started the "I want one of those fish" and my beginning to research.
Well, my original little tank became her office tank (she still has the tetras), and I did research. Originally I was planning on a 55, but when we were at the LFS, she pointed to the 90 and said "I like the bigger one." Don't we all
So that was in August of 2002. I knew that because of my lighting I wasn't going to get any SPS (didn't want to pay for halides) so I decided on a softy/LPS tank. Things were going great till last August my heater malfunctioned, and cooked my tank. However, it's come back in full force after some contributions from a local reefer and taking it slow.
Equipment:
90 gallon drilled center overflow tank
30 gallon sump, using a 200 micron filter sock
4 x 96 watt PC lighting (2 Actinic, 2 10k)
Mag 9 return pump
2 maxi jet 900's and 2 maxijet 1200's connected to a red sea wavemaster pro wavemaker
A skimmer made by an LFS (I need to replace this)
Titanium heater
That's about it. About 90 lbs. of live rock, 100 lbs. of sand. Pretty low tech. I've been meaning to add a refugium, hopefully sometime soon. Here's a recent pic, there have been a few changes since this one:
It all started when I began dating my current fiance. She had one of those betta bowls with the glass seperating them, so there could be three in the same little 2 gallon tank, and they would flare up when they saw each other. I loved this. So for my birthday, she bought be one of these tanks that could hold 6 of them.
This did well for about a year, until I did something wrong, and all but 1 died. The sudden deaths made me wonder what happened, so I did a little research. Found out about filtration, and all that other good stuff. So I took out the dividers so that the one betta left (a pearl betta named "Zero") could have more room, and bought a couple tetras. This did great until Zero jumped.
Around this time, we were hanging out at a mexican food joint when we took a look at their saltwater tank. Had an anenome, clownfish, some softies, shrimp, and the one fish that she loved, a flame hawk. We actually would go to this place and eat just so she could see her "swim and sit" fish. This started the "I want one of those fish" and my beginning to research.
Well, my original little tank became her office tank (she still has the tetras), and I did research. Originally I was planning on a 55, but when we were at the LFS, she pointed to the 90 and said "I like the bigger one." Don't we all
So that was in August of 2002. I knew that because of my lighting I wasn't going to get any SPS (didn't want to pay for halides) so I decided on a softy/LPS tank. Things were going great till last August my heater malfunctioned, and cooked my tank. However, it's come back in full force after some contributions from a local reefer and taking it slow.
Equipment:
90 gallon drilled center overflow tank
30 gallon sump, using a 200 micron filter sock
4 x 96 watt PC lighting (2 Actinic, 2 10k)
Mag 9 return pump
2 maxi jet 900's and 2 maxijet 1200's connected to a red sea wavemaster pro wavemaker
A skimmer made by an LFS (I need to replace this)
Titanium heater
That's about it. About 90 lbs. of live rock, 100 lbs. of sand. Pretty low tech. I've been meaning to add a refugium, hopefully sometime soon. Here's a recent pic, there have been a few changes since this one: