Greetings from Monterey, CA

[martyharrison]

Hey all,Just getting back into the hobby. Starting with a very customized BC29 to get my feet wet. So far so good!

 

[Krish]

Welcome back to the hobby!! Make sure and post some pics of your progress!! Good luck!!


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[mojoreef]

Hey Marty welcome to RF, great to have you aboard. I love Monterey Bay, got some God parents that used to live their.


Mojo

 

[BigAl07]

Hello and WELCOME to RF and BACK into the hobby

How long since your last tank?

Just how customized is your tank? I'm a big fan of All-In-One tanks especially for just "having fun" with SW

 

[rukis]

Welcome to the community! Love the bay area! cant wait to see some pics... got any plans you wanna share?

 

[martyharrison]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!I had been out of the hobby for 6-7 years when the bug finally bit me again. My last reef went "down in flames" with a Planaria outbreak that wouldn't go away. I literally gave everything away that was related to aquariums so starting over has been rather expensive, but this time I've wanted to do thing right. I picked up a lightly used 29 gallon Biocube and proceeded to gut the thing. All filtration was replaced, and all lighting was replaced. I contacted the nice folks at rapidled.com and with their help came up with an efficient replacement to metal halide. Oh yeah, one important detail I forgot. For the first time I started this tank with a plan in mind. I wanted it to run as efficiently as possible (cheaply) and to rely on captive raised species wherever possible. All of my corals are frags from captively kept parent colonies. My two Ocellaris clowns were captive raised, and the majority of my "misc. sealife" came from GARF grunge that was added. So far I'm seeing pretty awesome growth in the SPS corals, which amazes me in a 3 month old tank, but knock on wood, I think this is going to be the tank that makes everything look easy!