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From Victoria on Talking Reef forum.

Posted 10/06/06

We have asked permission to post some pictures from the Tank Of The Month (TOTM) of September on Talking Reef Community and Podcast.

The winner was "Victoria". We congratulate her on a beautiful reef aquarium. Now, in her own words...

My tank is a 30 gal cube. I started it in April 2005. I had just sold my 140 gal and took some frags an some of my favorite corals. Started it with 30 lbs LS and 15 lbs LR. The system is very basic HOB fudge, DIY skimmer, no sump or overflow. Never really had any problems with it (so far).

My tank is one year and 7 months old. I started this tank after I had sold my 140 gal LPS tank. I sold my larger tank because we would be moving in a little over a year or so. My thought was, why move such a large tank. But the reality was I could not live without a saltwater tank. I have had saltwater aquariums since 1976, when I just happened in a LFS “Pisces World” and had my first glimpses of under the sea.
 


 

This began the journey that I’m still on. With my eyes wide open, I saved up and bought my first saltwater aquarium. It was a 55-gallon tank with pure crushed coral and many beautiful pieces of bleached coral. I must admit I had some plastic plants in there too. Equipment in those day consisted of an under gravel filter, canister filter and regular T8 florescent bulbs or should I say bulb.
 



 

I already had LPS and some soft corals and a few stonies. I thought it was quite easy and needed more of a challenge. So I started my nano cube SPS dominated tank. By growing up my coral gave me time to adjust and learn more about the interaction of ALK, CA , Mag, and Ph. I thought by watching it grow I could see the effects more.

 

Thanks Victoria, for allowing us to show our customers your award winning reef aquarium.
 

There is much more to Victoria's story and more of her fabulous pictures posted on our favorite reef forum, Talking Reef.
Here is the link to her TOTM thread. While you are there why don't you take the opportunity to join a great forum. Tell them
Amphibious sent you. You'll be glad you joined. Lots of nice friendly people willing to help. We're always looking for reefers to
add their knowledge to the forums, too.

http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/showthread.php?p=32242#post32242

Tell Victoria you saw it on "The Cultured Reef".

 

 

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