Hello and pleased to meet you all! I set up my first saltwater tanks 25 years ago when I was 15 y/o and ran them until I was 19 and then took them down to head off to college. Now, all these years later, I decided to go back to my long awaited love of salt water and WOW has the industry moved to some AMAZING improvements, innovations and animals in the last 20 years!!
I did some research and went to several LFS in San Francisco and I was blown away by the service, product and all around help that my partner and I received from one store in particular, so we chose them and moved into the new realm of reef aquariums! The store for those interested is called
fish, fish and more fish on Lombard Street.
After consideration and discussion (and being talked out of buying a 130 Gallon setup on Craig's List - and I am glad I did not go that route at this time) we purchased the
Oceanic BioCube 29 and a nice cabinet stand. I added a
Protein Skimmer,
Submersible heater and a
Koralia Turbo Pump for added circulation.
For the tank setup, I chose 20 lbs of live white sand, 25 lbs of hand picked live rock (already cured in the shop and beautiful) and 30 gallons of live water. Once the tank was setup and cycled, we added 2
Black and White False Ocellaris Clown Fish - Amphiprion ocellaris (mated pair), 2 snails, 1
Emerald Crab - Mithrax sculptus and 1
Bubble Green Coral - Physogyra species (that was yesterday on 4-20-08). The plan is to now wait a week and monitor how everyone is doing and then add another coral, a star and maybe a coral beauty fish.
I have attached a few pics below - your feedback is always welcome and I am so excited to be back into aquariums - and with the start of a Reef Tank!!!
