Tank - Full Summary

Well this past weekend was the final push with finishing everything up on my new 75g reef ready tank. I'd like to say it went off without a hitch, but frankly it didn't, and I've had some losses since I started moving everything christmas weekend. Long story short, I should have given it a bit more time to cycle, or only moved 1 fish over at a time instead of all 4 from my 29g, as I had a small (1.0ppm at it's highest) nitrite only spike. Ammonia stayed a solid 0 the entire time, but that tiny bit ...

First off, sorry for the poor pictures.. I really need one of those fancy cameras like marc has... I swear people with cameras like that and the know-how to use them can make anything look amazing.



So my switch over to a reef tank has had a few bumps... I've lost some corals (mainly acro's... which I've heard may be from chemical warfare thanks to the nephtya) but it's really starting to shape up. Water parameters have been rock solid for the past 4 weeks, and I'm even ...

Figured I would actually toss up some pics of the setup so I can come back to them later and see the progress.

Tank started off a few years ago as a FOWLR setup, as I never really thought a 29 gallon could make a decent reef setup. After seeing a few others (melev's being one of them) I decided to take the plunge and get it going.

As it sits right now, I'm using 2 current usa nova extreme x2 fixtures (they don't make a 4 bulb t5ho in a 30" length, so I purchased ...

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 ...