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Who else besides me keeps a reef-aquarium?

I used to have a few, but was devastated when my nano 75 crashed. The AC died and my MH lights cooked my tank. I came home to a soup. And due to the heat, my plexi glass tank started to crack.
lol oh and yes to me, a 75 is a nano, when I belonged to a club, most member's refugium was a small 40 gallon and the average tank size was 200 plus gallons.
I still have the light setup, I have a tank but eventually I will do a reef again.
 
JNugent said:
I used to have a 55 gal saltwater set-up but for the amount of free time I had to deal with it, I found it to be too much work. It was also a bit tricky to things to live in it initially also. I ended up ditching and going back to a tropical set up. But I definitely enjoy looking at a well done reef aquarium.. Your's is defininitely cool for a 15g.
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For many years (around 10) I had a special 65 gallon set up mimicking water tributaries in South America. I made it as similar to the tributaries as I could, it even had actual pieces of trees from Brazil in it (not only for the health and enjoyment of the fish but for the ph) and was a mix of salt and fresh (brackish). The tank had schools of very unique fish such as multiple species of archerfish (which would actually spit!), gobies and puffers.
I quite for the very same reason: Lacking the necessary free time.
At times, when I had the tank, I would just sit and watch the interaction of the fish for hours. I miss it almost enough to get one going again :nope:
 
I have only ever had freshwater tanks. My current is a 55 gallon (I traded down from a 100 gallon, and it's just right for us). I've ALWAYS loved the looks of the saltwater setup, but I am not willing to take on the extreme cost and the maintenance concerns that go with them. I prefer to go look in awe at other's tanks--usually in fish stores :). One of the local aquarium stores I frequent LOVED selling saltwater setups so much that they'd GIVE you a 55 gallon tank as long as you bought all the supplies to set it up as a saltwater tank at the same time. Oh, and you bought a book and video, too. That tells me that they have a huge interest in selling expensive supplies and fish! Obviously, freshwater tanks just don't do it for them, profit margin-wise :).

My freshwater tank relaxes me in the same way a more spectacular saltwater tank set-up would, so the effect on my peace of mind is the same, too :).
 
The glass tank itself is by far the cheapest piece you will buy when it comes to setting up saltwater... unless you get a HUGE tank with 1" thick glass and no center-brace. Those get expensive. :D
 
I have a 120 gallon freshwater tank I've been threatening to switch over for a while. I have all of the equipment still in boxes (for 3 years), but just haven't had the guts to sell the fish! I will probably go ahead and do it once we move from here.
 
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