[Andy]

Well I was going to post a pic of my outside enclosure, but it looks like I have to make 5 posts 1st.

Reefs
200 gallon at home
90 gallon at office
800 --planning stage

 

[phil_pl]

:welcome: to the board. glad to have you here cant wait to see the pictures.

 

[Andy]

Thanks,.......2 posts

how many members are here?

 

[phil_pl]

we just hit the 3000 mark the other day*Glasses*

 

[Andy]

3000, wow. Very few viewing the board. 4 posts, almost there

Andy

tricked it haha

 

[salth2o]

Man I can't wait to see your 200! I can help you get to five posts quick! What is your favorite coral? What is your favorite fish?

 

[phil_pl]

this is true but the ones that frequent are very helpful and knowledgeable so it works out

 

[salth2o]

Was a bit late I guess! Really cool looking setup for your chiller. Did you brain that one out or follow some plans? Now lets see that 200!

 

[MediaHound]

Nice enclosure you have there. Usually its just a chiller sitting on a porch. That's a chiller in an enclosure on a porch. Much nicer.
Welcome aboard btw, nice to have you here. Lets see some pics of whats connected to the other end of the pipes

 

[Andy]

Figured it out myself
here is the first yrs model

200 gal

 

[salth2o]

HOLY SMOKES! Now thats what I'm talking about! Beautiful

 

[phil_pl]

*J/D* *o2 Very Very Nice

 

[Andy]

Here is my 90 gallon at my office.

 

[JIM]

*w2 to the forum, nice enclosure. and that tank is the bomb. sorry about the 5 post rule its just to make sure we dont have some bot come on, post some foul pics and leave. Believe me that tank was worth our wait by all means.

 

[Mermaid]

90 gallons....!!! At work?! Wow, where do you work??? I'd love to have a 90 gallon at work one day!! It looks wonderful btw, loving your 90 gallon.

Welcome to the boards, of course!!

 

[Andy]

Thx for the compliments.

90 is all soft easy stuff, very low maint. 1-2 water changes a yr. feed & fill R/O resivour, CA once a week.

200 gets 50% every 3 wks.

 

[Shotgun]

welcome to the site! were really getting a lot of SW reef enthusiests lately.

 

[eagleANTH]

wow really nice tanks... in the 90 how did you get them to grow on the back like that? did the coralline grow in thick enough for them to latch on or something?

 

[Chickadee]

Thank you so much for sharing those lovely pictures! They are very lovely and since I have not ventured into saltwater I have to live vicariously through the tanks of others. Yours make the experience well worth the time. Thanks for joining us. We look forward to the posts you make and the things we can learn from them.

Welcome and we do hope you enjoy this forum as much as we have. It is a very friendly and happy place.

Rose

 

[Andy]

The shrooms grew onto the glass. I put the rocks that had good colonies against the glass & they just grew up the pane.

This does seem to be agood core group of people. I have had a saltwater tank for about 33 yrs now, since I was 11.

We used to have undergravel filters in SW, its come a long way. Hopefully I can add to some of the discussions with a little insight. Its nice to help someone not make the same mistakes you made, & I've made many.

The large blue tang in the pic is 11 yrs old. I bought him when he was about 1 1/2" long, he is at least 10" long now. The other 3 tangs, purple, yellow, & powder blue are about 9 yrs old.