I just found some slides of my second reef tank, it was set up in 1994.
this tank began as a 29 gallon in 1993, then was changed to the 55 gallon you see here.
I remember it had VHO lights, an icecap 660 with three 48" bulbs.
There was an external overflow going to a sump, I think the sump was ten gallons. the return pump was the old quiet one, when they really were quiet. There was a protein skimmer, I actually gave it to Tom a little while ago, it was a decent counter current type. I did not remember it having sand, but apparently there was a shallow sand bed, and about 80 pounds of live rock. The stand was the first one I made, Jose has it now. I don't remember all that was in the tank, so what you see in the photos is what I remember. It looks like I was also running some canister filters, I used to pack them with carbon, helping with the nutrient export was the in the tank fuge, :shocked1: look at all that calupera.
back when this tank was set up there were at least three decent reef stores in the city I went to, I also went to house of fins, I bought my first skimmer there, along with many fish and inverts.
this tank began as a 29 gallon in 1993, then was changed to the 55 gallon you see here.
I remember it had VHO lights, an icecap 660 with three 48" bulbs.
There was an external overflow going to a sump, I think the sump was ten gallons. the return pump was the old quiet one, when they really were quiet. There was a protein skimmer, I actually gave it to Tom a little while ago, it was a decent counter current type. I did not remember it having sand, but apparently there was a shallow sand bed, and about 80 pounds of live rock. The stand was the first one I made, Jose has it now. I don't remember all that was in the tank, so what you see in the photos is what I remember. It looks like I was also running some canister filters, I used to pack them with carbon, helping with the nutrient export was the in the tank fuge, :shocked1: look at all that calupera.
back when this tank was set up there were at least three decent reef stores in the city I went to, I also went to house of fins, I bought my first skimmer there, along with many fish and inverts.
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