Main Menu
| |
Get on the Map!
| |
Forum Menu
| | |
View Poll Results: How old is your aquarium? | |
< 6 months
|    | 26 | 32.10% | |
6 months - 1 year
|    | 14 | 17.28% | |
1 - 2 years old
|    | 14 | 17.28% | |
2 -3 years old
|    | 5 | 6.17% | |
4 - 5 years old
|    | 9 | 11.11% | |
> 5 years
|    | 13 | 16.05% | | Reef Links |  | 
03-03-2008, 10:53 AM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
Posts: 3,111
 
|
My 5.5 has been up since right before christmas....
_________
5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 australian black perc clown ,1 porcelain crab, , 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, neon grn bali slimer acro, purple acro, millipora's, feather duster, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | 
|  | |
03-03-2008, 10:57 AM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator |
I put 1-2 years. It'll be 2 years in August. Well that's when I figure it was 100% cycled and I had transfered corals into it. But some of the corals I have in it are 5 plus years old in one of my tanks.
J | |
| | |
03-03-2008, 10:51 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
Posts: 733
  |
My tank is approx. 5 months old...  Doing very good right now! _________ 75gal. Rio240 JEWEL aquarium
4x54W T5 (actinic blue+white)
Deltec MC 500 internal skimmer
Eheim 2227 Fitler Wet/Dry
Eheim 2213 Filter (100gph/PhosGuard/DeNitrate)
JEWEL Internal Filter (250gph/EhfiSubstrat Pro 2gal)
2 lovely Amphiprion ocelaris
1 young Gobiodon okinawae
| |
| | |
03-03-2008, 11:05 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,406
 
|
Hmmm...if my math serves me correct, I think it is just over 3 years...2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008...right? Maybe 3.5...I actually don't remember what month I started...though I joined 3Reef in November, So i doubt it was that far back.  _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
 | |
| | |
03-04-2008, 07:36 AM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 698
 |
6 years old this month!! _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
| | |
03-04-2008, 10:05 AM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 4,605
| 
Tank Age Current tank is upgrade from a 55 gal started in 2002.
Current 125 gallon "All-Glass"
55 Gallon 2002
Pretty much all original fish still with me, except hippo which outgrew even the 125.
12 Gallon Nano Started August 2007. 
All original LR and inverts died out in a Cu disaster in early 2003 (see below)
"Cheap" Pond Pump 
I began this great hobby with a 55 gal tank which I successfully managed to keep up and running for about a year - after making the same dumb mistakes that most all beginners make.
Then I decided it was time to get bigger, so I went out and got a 125 all-glass tank, built stand & canopy, got good skimmer and allot more LR. When time was right I moved all from the 55 to the 125.
Not long after fully stocking the tank with corals and other life, my inverts started to die off, then corals, and eventually my LR all started looking funky. Ammonia and nitrates shot through the roof.
Did some back to back major water changes that did little to make things better.
LFS said to bring in water sample for him to test, and doing so, found the Cu level to be nearly off the charts.
Water should'nt be a problem as I was getting it direct from the Seattle Aquarium...
I tried to fight the problem by doing massive water changes, and a fortune in Cu sponges and poly-filters.
As soon as I got the Cu down, it would be back to lethal levels in a week or so.???
I pulled tank appart more then once looking for a Cu source somewhere inside.
Finally after nearly giving up all, my return pump quit one day. Pulling it appart I discovered it had some brass fittings inside that had corrouded and caused pump to fail.
I had cut corners and tried to save myself some money by buying a cheap pond pump.
Big mistake.
After about 6 mos. I managed to get all the residual Cu out and started all over with new LR, etc. - has been a happy tank since then.
The fish made it thru all this just fine.
So moral is, trying to save money and going "cheap" in beginning, does not always work out for the best down the road.
Scott
PS - only benefit from all this, is that I have never had an ICK problem...
 _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!)
Last edited by omard : 03-04-2008 at 10:14 AM.
| |
| | |
03-04-2008, 11:29 AM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,086
|
_________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
| | |
03-04-2008, 11:48 AM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
Posts: 551
|
My 180 is a little over two years old and a lot of the rock, sand and fish came out of my 55 gallon which I had set up for 2 or so years. _________ Kris
180 gallon AGA display, 2 250 MH, 1 400 MH, 2 65 PC, AAT moonlight, DIY wet dry, sump, and fuge, G2 skimmer, KNOP C calcium reactor, auto top off, dual pump closed loop, Oceans Motions valve, phosphate reactor, fuidized sand filter, Lighthouse controller keeping it all in check.  My 180 Tank Thread | |
| | |
03-04-2008, 04:58 PM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Hammer Head Shark
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
Posts: 2,605
 |
To the best of my recollection, we started the is tank in Dec of 2001(it was after 9/11 and we wanted to help keep the local economy going) LMAO so starting our 7th year! My Engineer Goby is one of the originals and I'm pretty sure I've never had another clown either. The damsel and Foxface were bought about a year later. CBS is one of two I had from a way long time ago  _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
R.I.P. Big Blue 12/02-10/22//07
p.s. I'm a woman! 
| |
| | | Reef Links |  | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -7. The time now is 06:34 AM. |
Still in the infant stages but will mature in a couple of years. 
