Hello Reef Geeks,
My friends call me Gecko, I live in Point Pleasant Beach NJ and I have kept saltwater fish for around 20 years. A couple of years ago I switched my fish only tank over to a reef tank.
I switched from a skimmerless canister filter to a more modern approach being the Berlin system. I struggled for months to figure out the best way to go with the future equipment purchases. After close two a year of kicking this around in my head and speaking with hobbyists, I decided to by a Lifereef filtration system. I then had to think about new lights which led me to some great stuff about T5 lighting so I purchased an 8-bulb fixture. I live in an old house near the beach and it doesn’t have central air so I new I needed a chiller and ended up buying a 1/6hp Oceanic chiller and I was ready to go…
But when I tried to switch everything over not to mention curing the live rock in my garage and transferring fish from one tank to another my Hippo Tang got Ich. I ended up loosing the Tang, my Butterfly, my Imperator Angelfish, Clown Trigger and Stars and Stripes Puffer.
The only fish that made it through the transfer to the reef tank was my Maroon Clownfish which is now over 14years old. With this all said I now have around a 4” thick sand bed and approximately 130lbs of live rock in my 75. I have a Superman Monti, Bali Slimmer, ORA Oregon Tort, a few beautifully other none named Acropora’s and a few branching Monti’s. I also have a few LPS & Soft corals.
My water has never been better and my tank is currently doing well.
Thanks
Gecko
My friends call me Gecko, I live in Point Pleasant Beach NJ and I have kept saltwater fish for around 20 years. A couple of years ago I switched my fish only tank over to a reef tank.
I switched from a skimmerless canister filter to a more modern approach being the Berlin system. I struggled for months to figure out the best way to go with the future equipment purchases. After close two a year of kicking this around in my head and speaking with hobbyists, I decided to by a Lifereef filtration system. I then had to think about new lights which led me to some great stuff about T5 lighting so I purchased an 8-bulb fixture. I live in an old house near the beach and it doesn’t have central air so I new I needed a chiller and ended up buying a 1/6hp Oceanic chiller and I was ready to go…
But when I tried to switch everything over not to mention curing the live rock in my garage and transferring fish from one tank to another my Hippo Tang got Ich. I ended up loosing the Tang, my Butterfly, my Imperator Angelfish, Clown Trigger and Stars and Stripes Puffer.
The only fish that made it through the transfer to the reef tank was my Maroon Clownfish which is now over 14years old. With this all said I now have around a 4” thick sand bed and approximately 130lbs of live rock in my 75. I have a Superman Monti, Bali Slimmer, ORA Oregon Tort, a few beautifully other none named Acropora’s and a few branching Monti’s. I also have a few LPS & Soft corals.
My water has never been better and my tank is currently doing well.
Thanks
Gecko
You must have been pretty sad/upset when you lost those fish during the transfer from the ich. I just updated to a bigger tank myself not all that long ago, and sure enough, shortly after everything was in the new tank I had a massive ich outbreak as well. Lost some fish, too.