samdinhkhuong
New Member
Greeting to all fellow reefers of R2R!
I'd like to begin to with "WOW!, what a great and friendly knowledgeable community that stumbled into." Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm an absolute noobie in saltwater and corals hobby. I started my first 20gal saltwater system about 2 years ago with 2 clownfish and some snails to learn basic chemistry and control parameters of saltwater. I was always mesmerized by corals and always dreamed 1 day I'm capable of caring for them in an aquaria environment that they will thrive. On February this year I could no longer hold off my temptation of setting up an "real" reef tank; so I built myself a bigger system with proper equipments to assist my lack of experience and knowledge in reef. My new system is just over 6 months now and I started to add my first coral (zoas and clove polyps) 3 months ago. After a month they started to propagate and looked healthy, I decided that it's time for sps so I've been adding sps to my system every 10 days for 2 months now. All livestock in my system seem to do well with some sps already started to grow.
I already stuffed my biology and chemistry books back on the shelves since I found this forum community because I realized that it is actual hands on knowledge and aquaria focus being discuss here; rather than general texts that may or may not applies to controlled reef environments.
I'm keen to learn and gain more knowledge through all members in this awesome of a respected community. I also hope that everyone bare and have patience with my future questions since every issues I encounter will be new to me although I haven't experience any major issues.... yet.
MUCH APPRECIATED and Happy reefing! Below is my system information:
DT: Bare bottom 65gal (42x20x18inches)
Sump: 30gal 6 chambers with dual filter socks
Lights: radion xr30 x 3
Pumps: Vectra m2 return, mp10 x2
Skimmer: Bubble Magus 9 with air hose connected to my house's air return.
Controller: Neptune Apex, Trident, DOS and ATO module.
40inch home made 40watts using 4inch diameter pvc pipe.
Home made 10pounds CO2 generator operated by Apex.
Home made Phosphate and Calcium reactors.
I'd like to begin to with "WOW!, what a great and friendly knowledgeable community that stumbled into." Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm an absolute noobie in saltwater and corals hobby. I started my first 20gal saltwater system about 2 years ago with 2 clownfish and some snails to learn basic chemistry and control parameters of saltwater. I was always mesmerized by corals and always dreamed 1 day I'm capable of caring for them in an aquaria environment that they will thrive. On February this year I could no longer hold off my temptation of setting up an "real" reef tank; so I built myself a bigger system with proper equipments to assist my lack of experience and knowledge in reef. My new system is just over 6 months now and I started to add my first coral (zoas and clove polyps) 3 months ago. After a month they started to propagate and looked healthy, I decided that it's time for sps so I've been adding sps to my system every 10 days for 2 months now. All livestock in my system seem to do well with some sps already started to grow.
I already stuffed my biology and chemistry books back on the shelves since I found this forum community because I realized that it is actual hands on knowledge and aquaria focus being discuss here; rather than general texts that may or may not applies to controlled reef environments.
I'm keen to learn and gain more knowledge through all members in this awesome of a respected community. I also hope that everyone bare and have patience with my future questions since every issues I encounter will be new to me although I haven't experience any major issues.... yet.
MUCH APPRECIATED and Happy reefing! Below is my system information:
DT: Bare bottom 65gal (42x20x18inches)
Sump: 30gal 6 chambers with dual filter socks
Lights: radion xr30 x 3
Pumps: Vectra m2 return, mp10 x2
Skimmer: Bubble Magus 9 with air hose connected to my house's air return.
Controller: Neptune Apex, Trident, DOS and ATO module.
40inch home made 40watts using 4inch diameter pvc pipe.
Home made 10pounds CO2 generator operated by Apex.
Home made Phosphate and Calcium reactors.
