[jason2459]

Got a 55g tank about two years ago from my sister in law who ran it for about 3-4 years before that. I thought I did a pretty good job in keeping it up and added several new items to it for about a year. Here's a picture of it just after I got it home and setup.

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Ended up getting a HOB refugium (no clue as make and is ~10g, C-220 Marineland canister filter, Coralife 6x 18w) UV filter, Coralife 65 super skimmer, and some more live rock.

It came with a coralife pc lighting and I added on a glo double t5 lighting. Have no idea what kind of substrate but it was around 2in or so.

Didn't really do any corals other then a kenya tree that multiplied itself all over the place. Only death I had while running it was a firefish jumping out. I bought pretty much everything that I added on from a local fish guy. Tom from Beyond the Sea. Always got a good deal and would hand pick any livestock I wanted.

Unfortunately don't really have that many pictures of the before. Luckily I had that one. Favorite things in there were probably a copper banded butterfly that I found liked to be hand fed live muscles and would let me pet him and a white spotted hermit crab which liked the muscles too. They ate better then I did.


Reason I don't have many pictures left is because of this happening in June of 2008.

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I lost everything in the tank of course, including 95% of everything else the wife and I owned.


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Wife felt bad and got me this as soon as we found a new home to move into as that flooded home lost a big chunk of it's foundation and the cost to repair would be more then the house was worth.

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He's in our soon to be baby boy's room on top of a dresser. Of course the theme is underwater sea life. (NOT NEMO! I keep getting people saying "OH, You have a Finding Nemo room?"!!!)