cjeffers88 January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 After finally meeting a bunch of you who are already members I have decided to join WAMAS. I have met a bunch of yall off of craigslist, LFS, my old job (Petco), facebook, and various other gatherings. All of you have said to join Wamas its an awesome society and heck, I figured why not. I currently "share" a 90 with my now fiance :D until his 150 is up and running. If you are all on Reeftank or Reefcentral hes Minion/DecadancePerformace. He will be joining WAMAS soon. http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f6/josh-and-chelseas-120-and-90-builds-195192.html Family in tank: hopefully Im not forgetting anyone Kesha -anthias Keith -tailspot Athena - mandarin Spartacus -green chromis Jwow -clown Snookie - clown Kole - kole tang Achilles - copperband Mars -flasher wrasse Dimitri -glass cardinal Bruce - glass cardinal Apollo - wrasse Grandma - royal gramma Hector - cleaner shrimp Paris- cleaner shrimp Hades -fire shrimp Dexter - fire shrimp Brittle - brittle starfish Hercules - emerald crab Aries - emerald crab 4small acro crabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flooddc January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coral Hind January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 Welcome to the club. Once you become a paying member you will see the hidden part of the forum has the for sale, trade, free, and group buy sections. Post up some pics of your tank. What kind of wrasse is Apollo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoticReefCreations January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 Welcome aboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surf&turf January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 Welcome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimlin January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 Welcome! I see you are in Laurel.. there are a few of us on this side of the beltway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Chalice January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 Welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjeffers88 January 13, 2013 Author Share January 13, 2013 Welcome! I see you are in Laurel.. there are a few of us on this side of the beltway. Hey Orion what area and what's your tank like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjeffers88 January 13, 2013 Author Share January 13, 2013 Welcome aboard! Thank you, the torch we bought is doing great haha had to move him he was loving his spot too much and started out reaching towards the birds nest. I also saw you posted up some yummy new corals btw go caps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjeffers88 January 13, 2013 Author Share January 13, 2013 Welcome to the club. Once you become a paying member you will see the hidden part of the forum has the for sale, trade, free, and group buy sections. Post up some pics of your tank. What kind of wrasse is Apollo? Apollo is the yellow "canary" corris wrasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 Hey Orion what area and what's your tank like I'm in Ellicott City off rt 100 / 103. Small nano 8g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surf&turf January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 Looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjeffers88 January 13, 2013 Author Share January 13, 2013 I'm in Ellicott City off rt 100 / 103. Small nano 8g. I'm personally originally from west Howard co marriottsville Nice nano is that a yellow blenny or wrasse ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incredible Corals January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 That cube is awesome. Welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion January 13, 2013 Share January 13, 2013 I'm personally originally from west Howard co marriottsville Nice nano is that a yellow blenny or wrasse ? It's a yellow clown goby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjeffers88 January 13, 2013 Author Share January 13, 2013 Sweet I want to get a panda or black clown goby s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreef January 14, 2013 Share January 14, 2013 The only thing is you wont see them much :( I have a green clown goby in my 50g and he hides in my kenya tree forest all day... so he is getting his own 5g tank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence January 14, 2013 Share January 14, 2013 I guess I will post in here as my first post on this forum. Chelsea is a LPS/softy girl and I am most definitely an SPS guy. We met at her work when I was looking at fish and quickly fell victim to each other's ravishing good looks! I have been in the hobby for around 10 years and while Chelsea is new to the saltwater hobby, she has a background in marine biology, plus a good mentor. We were planning a move to Miami at the end of this year but something came up which has convinced us to stay. We are having a little reefer! Grandma wouldn't appreciate her very first grandchild sailing off to paradise with us so we will stay in the area for at least a few more years. I got back into the hobby a little over a year ago with a small 1.1 gallon pico aquarium. I quickly grew out of the pico and decided that I wanted to tackle SPS as I had in the years passed. Around this time last year I picked up a 20 gallon long aquarium and began cycling it. Days quickly become months and before I knew it, there was no more room. I had so much SPS that in order to fit any more in the tank, I had to either sell some off or upgrade so I decided to start piecing together a 120g system. Around this time Chelsea was also set on having her own small chunk of paradise in the form of a zoanthid garden. She had been buying zoanthid frags and placing them in my tank and in my mangrove lagoon. We realized that we had a problem when my cousin called me and told me about a great colony he could get me for cheap and I agreed to it, only to look at the tank and realize that once it was at the house, it had nowhere to go. In the end, I had to squeeze all of my live rock together but it was finally situated. The crafty (cheap) people that we are, we started searching Craigslist for the best deal possible on a complete system. This was the only way we would be able to afford to set up an additional tank while I was still working on the other upgrade. I could use it to hold all of my livestock and when my upgrade was done, we could rebuild the whole thing for Chelsea while everything else goes into my 120g. Chelsea and I put together a very reasonable amount of money and I ran off to pick up a RR90g tank which was running in a state of neglect but had rather decent equipment. This temporary set-up came with a few fish and couple nice piece of coral. It was bare-bottomed and coated with coraline algae but there was enough settled detritus in the rocks to make a disgusting snow man as the flow was not enough to be BB. The purchase was made on such short notice that we did not have time to make a bunch of new water and our RODI only put out 24gpd as it only had to serve a 20 gallon tank. Luckilly, the new tank came with a 75gpd RODI but I couldn't set it up until we were home with everything. We had to make use of as much of the original water as possible so I transported the tank and around 50 gallons of water from Baltimore to Laurel at a steady creep. To make the water usable, we ran the skimmer in the display and cleaned all of the coraline from the tank with water in it. Tubs of live rock and corals sat with circulation pumps and heaters for around four days while a styrofoam box held all of the livestock with a heater, circulation pumps and an air stone. We did not lose any livestock in the move. After the tank had run a sufficient amount of time and we had filled it the rest of the way with water, I put together a quick sump. For filtration, we used the Reef Octopus EXT200 protein skimmer which came with the tank along with an ViaAqua poly-reactor loaded with GFO. I was carbon-source/bacteria dosing this tank from day I brought it home, even before it was filled the rest of the way. I knew that we could not afford to feel a cycle and a lot of bacteria would die off in the rocks when we removed all of the detritus. The dosing regiment completely avoided a nitrogen cycle for us but the bound phosphate in the rocks was felt for weeks. I moved all of my coral in and lost a lot of color all around but also lost a few frags and colonies which went to STN. When available phosphate in the water column was under control, I decided to add an ATS to the tank as I have always wanted to try one. Shortly before that, I upgraded the skimmer pump to a bubble blaster and added a filter sock. This is the story of the progression of this tank. Somewhere along the line, I decided to ditch my 120g to make use of the nice 6ft space we have in our bedroom. I picked up a 72"x24"x20" tank to do my SPS build with and have been slowly piecing it together. We believe that this hobby is meant to be enjoyed so we stack filtration systems which compliment each other and stock heavy. The current filtration system could take us months without a single water change and will remain SPS friendly (we do dose!) even with 13 fish. So far the longest it has gone was a month and a half and inorganic phosphate never registered which means it was below 0.015ppm in the water column. The current focus is on automation. A Geo 612 calcium reactor is due to come in tomorrow and the tank now has a RKL with two head units, three PC4s, an SL1 and net module which is all being hooked up. I have also purchased all of the components to build a nice new LED system for the tank to replace the combination of metal halides (150w) and LEDs (102w) currently on it. Here are a few livestock pictures from the 90, 20 and my mantis tank: I will update tomorrow with coral and growth pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjeffers88 January 14, 2013 Author Share January 14, 2013 Sadly we lost our new anthias to a powerhead :( poor kesha. Yolo. Anyways Keith is happy and eating all our algae Go KEITH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surf&turf January 14, 2013 Share January 14, 2013 Nice post, Welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreef January 14, 2013 Share January 14, 2013 Thanks for the story! Its nice when a couple is in it together...(my husband likes my tank but does not help or understand a lot of it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion January 14, 2013 Share January 14, 2013 And congrats for the little one on the way.. Our first is due in March (right around the corner) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimlin January 14, 2013 Share January 14, 2013 thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence January 15, 2013 Share January 15, 2013 Thanks for the welcome guys. Thanks for the story! Its nice when a couple is in it together...(my husband likes my tank but does not help or understand a lot of it) There is no feeling in the world like having Chelsea come up to me and say "Can we go to the frag swap in March?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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