My 26G bow front Marine

[Acipenser]

I started off with the stand ( ) it was a great deal $50 for a pine bow front stand. I then went to my lfs and picked up a Fluval rimless 26g all in one kit, My lfs took the fluval filter back and gave me credit, that I used to buy a AC power head instead.

Got My live rock from a forum member ( thanks Anthony ), and bought a bag of caribe sea oolite live sand. (never again) cycled the tank for 3 weeks and got bored ended up buying a single clown fish.

then added a few hermit crabs, some snails and a Hydor slim skim nano, 2 days ago added a buddy for the clown.

The slim skim ended up interfering with the canopy so I ended up taking it off, You can see my ghetto light set up. Planning on adding this Vertex from JL.

My pepermint shrimp was eaten by some one , I am thinking one of the hermit crabs !

A few pics from wifey's Iphone !

[Diztrbd1]

Looks great thus far. Makes me wish I didn't sell my 26g bowfront.

[STANKYfish]

Good start. Your pepermint may still be in there hiding. We seldom see ours.

[gklaw]

Haha, money pit and your are just starting with the help of forum and CL.

It was a $13,000 pit for me the first year when I started! I never even spent that much on a car up to 4 years ago.

It will be a test of patience as well for at least a few months Enjoy while you are at it - looking good.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Mine are still major money pits. I have a hard time convincing myself to spend over $50 at a time at the supermarket, yet drop double, triple, quadruple that on my reef tanks on a regular basis.

Amongst my reefer friends, we say that "crack is cheaper" when it comes to addictions to indulge in.

[monkE]

Looks great thus far. Makes me wish I didn't sell my 26g bowfront.

lol i was just thinking the same thing!

[Diztrbd1]

lol i was just thinking the same thing!

probably has you looking at that 46 thinking how that would look eh? lol

[monkE]

probably has you looking at that 46 thinking how that would look eh? lol

i was just doing the math to see what the LR would cost me! lol

[Acipenser]

It's been a few day's and I was back to see my "crack dealer" you know who you are lol. There are some really great people especially when you move out of basic fish keeping and into specialty like marine. I have gotten a lot of good advice and wicked deals on stuff so far and one day hope to pass it on !

Any way I added this toad stool and a few larger snails as my hermits took out one of the smaller snails.

The toad stool came on a large piece of nicely coralined rock. and I ended up rescaping a few times but am still not happy ! I think I may have too much rock for the display ?
Crappy samsung phone pics !



I got tired of waiting for my vertex light to come in so I picked up this 18"-24" marine land double bright led, It was better than the oem 15w T8 florescent canopy light which I ghetto'ed under a shelf and put on a timer.

Plan is to use this double bright on a 10G tank I have later when I Find a proper light fixture for this tank!

[Acipenser]

I thought this guy was a gonner, I had found his empty carcass on the sand bed and hadn't seen him for a week, I guess he had molted and decided to come out while I was sitting at the computer. I love where this tank is 3 feet away from the computer.