Ranchu's RSM 250 - 65 gallon

[Ranchu50]

It was the fall of 2012 when I signed onto Canreef for the first time.
There was (and still is) ridiculous amounts of information on the site!

I spent days and weeks reading; tank journals, tank builds; the classifieds;

Ridiculous! There are some amazing tanks you guys have!!

But reading didnt mean anything until i picked up a 29 gallon stock Biocube!
I quickly found a brand new stand for the tank, got some salt and sand, and i was ready to go!

I inherited a snowflake eel, 2 blue damsals, a starved goby, a clownfish and a brown anenome.
The live rock i inherited came with some mushrooms, a bit of xenia and some other crappy looking corals, which turned out to be majano anenomes and aiptasia.

The xenia disappeared almost immediately, goby wasnt eating and the anenome was moving all over the place!

I was glued to Canreef and google, trying to solve mini issue after mini issue.

At the same time, a cheap investment in the tank turned out to be hundreds and hundreds of extra dollars, buying supplies such as a refractometer, new bulbs, a protein skimmer etc.

The hobby was really expensive I found out quickly!

Over the first few months, and spending too much $, i was demoralized a bit, and almost quit.