New Member in Sterling

[Cory]

I am a new member and a newbie in the topic.

Please don't hate me - but I had a great company set-up and maintain my 220 gallon tank.  I've had it for about 8 years and it's now a necessity for me to either learn how to take care of it or (God forbid) get rid of it...

 

I decided on a reef tank as a memorial to my husband of 30 years.  He drown in a scuba accident while we were diving in the Honduras. I wanted to recreate the underworld magic we were seeing...

 

Now I need to learn to care for my established tank.  Here's a brief overview  of what I have:

 

220 gallon Saltwater aquarium

3 Radion XR30 lights

2 Vortech MP40 pumps

Stand canopy

Filtration system including skimmer and refugium return pump and more

RO/DI filter 

Assorted livestock (fish, coral, inverts)

 

I am reading books that have been suggested on this site, but think I may need lots more help!  any suggestions?

Thanks!!

[Origami]

Moving this to the "New to the Hobby" forum.

 

Why isn't the tank under a maintenence agreement after all these years if that's how you've been maintaining it?

 

Is this a reef tank today? Or is it fish only? Is the goal to build and maintain a reef tank? Or to maintain an existing reef tank?

[Cory]

Moving this to the "New to the Hobby" forum.

 

Why isn't the tank under a maintenence agreement after all these years if that's how you've been maintaining it?

 

Is this a reef tank today? Or is it fish only? Is the goal to build and maintain a reef tank? Or to maintain an existing reef tank?

I don't know about a maintenance agreement. The company has been servicing/maintaining my tank since they set it up.  They come and do weekly maintenance however it's usually when I'm at work so I have no opportunity to watch and learn from them...I have corals, fish and inverts.  My goal is to maintain what I have, which, to me, includes adding new livestock, etc.

[Bruleyii]

What livestock do you currently have? 

[tygger]

Welcome! Is the plan to stop using the maintenance company? If the tank has been up for 8yrs, the water parameters are probably stable, but at a minimum you'll need equipment to make and test water.

[s2nhle]

Welcome to wamas. do you have pics to show your tank?

[salteacup]

If you're a visual learner, one of the things that is helping me figure out all of the terminology and how some of the gear works is this YouTube channel: (BRS-TV) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcJv2rQDivg8NwXIxydJ86A

They are pretty good at explaining the what and why for each thing, and their experiments are pretty cool!