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Well noone can be out of this hobby for too long without wanting to watch a mantis destroy a snail or a clownfish bob in an anemone and I am no different. So for the summer while I am taking a chemistry class, I will be building and cycling and then stocking two tanks. I like JBJ's style and quality of product so I will be going with two JBJ tanks, one is the 28 gallon nano, whcih will either have LED lighting or halide lighting. Personally I prefer the LED. The overall lifetime costs of LED's ...

Alright, to give you a better idea of where this is going, lets get a quick equipment run down out of the way. I knew going into this that I wanted a stacked tank system so that it would not take up much space. I also wanted to make the build easy and have collected most of your normal reef tank operating goods. This entry turned out to probably be too long, but I hope it helps and more importantly, I hope I have accounted for everything (who ever really does though, right?). If you missed Part ...

Hello, my name is Dylan but online i go by Cael.

I have a small reef system set up, a mere 20 gallons. It houses a wide variety of coral, fish, and invertebate.
It was setup in october of last year and was an upgrade from a ten gallon.
With loads of help and donations from teesquare it has come to be as it is today

The stock list includes:

FISH
Tomini Tang (youth under three inches with move out plan)
Pair Occ, Clowns ...

This is my first blog post ever...I have really enjoyed reading and following along with all of your posts, so I figured now would be a good time to start my own...

I am sooo excited to finally move up to a little larger tank! I recently purchased a 58 gallon oceanic with center overflow, along with a 15 gallon sump. This is a pic of it running before I bought it. It's less than 3 years old and in really good condition.

For the ...

Well, I found the site by the way of melev's reef... his 29 gallon is definitely the inspiration for mine.

I started a saltwater tank 3 years ago when I got my apartment. Frankly I always wanted a fish tank, the parents would have nothing of it, so when I got my own place, it literally was the first thing I did. My wife really got interested in it too after we had some diving trips in jamaica for our honeymoon, so she's one of the reasons we've had to turn it into a reef tank (oh ...