LOL ever wonder how you get yourself into these things?

[ZeroHour]

So I started out moving here with a 12 mod eclipse nano diy cluster when I left Colorado. I had been in and out of the hobby over the past 10-12 years and built that set up when we had our son. They say its calming for a tank in the babies room.....

So we get here and the moving company destroyed it.

So I think okay well I still have a 6 eclipse laying around and now I can do a reef tank for the living room.

So I get the 62 with custom stand (thanks bigbird) and get it drilled and start working on plumbing lighting etc...etc....

Then I see this JBJ 12 or 14 I dont even know anymore, and think great for the kids room so I snag that and end up with lighting issues so I am just hanging a set of t5 24" over it since it looks fine but what a cluster. Modded that with dual pumps etc.

Then I get a 20 for myself from the DPG sale at Petco because well heck I need a "frag"/whatever I want tank for my office cause I cant see the living room tank. Get all the plumbing stuff together for that one drill one side perfect drill the other catch an edge....:mad:

So tomorrow I go snag an empty biocube 29 because I have some new ideas and bigger is better right?? Running 96 watts of t5 on that one and then building some LED stuff....

I started this crap in June....If all goes well I will have all ready to go tomorrow. The 12/14 is cycled and ready for life. I have plenty of sand etc and am adding that to the 62 here in about 15 minutes and then tomorrow afternoon I will set up the 29 cube....

All from a 12 gallon nano for my 8 month olds room...:wink_smile:



hmmm....I still have an empty eclipse 6.......:hypnotyized:MUST GROW SOMETHING>>>

[ZeroHour]

lol as a side note I have about 50$ worth of fittings, valves, tubing, pipes, sealants, waterfall foam etc all that has to go back to lowes and home depot from things I thought I needed to have lol

[Mike]

It is addictive... we went from a 10g hex to our current set up of 20g hex, 210g reef and 75 FOWLR... who would have thought... :)

[BIGBIRD123]

Let me know if you need help, I ain't doing anything but sitting around...:)

[Big_Pun]

I used be the biocube king, I started with a 12g jbj then in 3-4 months had 2x29 biocubes, 1x14g, 2x8g, all at the same time here's my 29 moded with a 4 bulb t5
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu357/stangchris/t5ftsMedium.jpg

[ZeroHour]

Thanks Steve im about set but ill be in touch for sure have some ideas runnin around my head.

[Europhyllia]

Yes, stangchris will forever be the 'cube guy' to me. ;)
I actually went for 10 years with a semi neglected 29g tank. Then that got destroyed and I got a 125g last year, then a 75g temp tank, now a 215g.
The first ten years of this were definitely cheaper than the last one for me!

[ZeroHour]

I did the trial and error route when I started....Actually my first tank a 29 with HOB filter was by far the most successful tank I have ever had. No idea what it was with that tank but a simple pair of CFLs 50/50 and a whisper filter that tank was awesome. Great coraline, kept everything I put in it in great condition and then my useless college roomie decided to beer the tank when he was ****ed at me...That was the end of that.

From there out I had some nightmares with ick and hair algea, and cyano, and ...and....and...then I quit for about 4 years. Sold my at the time 75 set up with hi tech canister filter set up and that was that....the 12 nano set up I had was 100% successful as well actually but I just cant compare it to the speed at which things grew in that 29 lol.