Coleus's 155 bowfront tank. HRV installed and new mixing station

[Coleus]

Ok, where should i start? Just want to make a thread to share some of my frustration and happiness of this very stressful saltwater hobby. I want to post something here so maybe someday i can look back and see how much sweat and tear that I have experienced in this hobby.

BE WARNED: that all picts won't be as nice because i suck at taking photo and don't have a good lens. That explains why Kien had to come over and took my babies pictures lol.

Ok, let's start. I started with 92 gallon bowfront with cichlids for couple years. They were very easy to look after. Water change happened once a month. Good old time!


Near Xmas 2008 , after re-watching Finding Nemo with my niece, I figured i should start a salt water. So went to one of the big chain LFS and bought myself a 45 bowfront tank (just a big fan of bow front tank) with Coralife PC light, rena xp, etcc because at that time I did not do any research and just listened to whatever person worked there told me. Bought live rocks and some "magic" chemical to help the water cycle faster. Got myself right 2 nemos right away :-). At that time, I thought to myself "wow salt water is not that expensive".

Then started to add some coral and fish starting 2009


and then more live rock, the more the better right?



I was pretty happy with 2 nemos, one dory, and urchin, two shrimps and some lps back then because babies were on the way I did not want to over killed my bank account.

Then my saltwater hobby took to another turn when my co-worker told me to visit CANREEF.

OMFG, since the day i joined, i started stocking more corals and fishes until i ran out of space and then The Unpreventable thing happened: TIME TO UPGRADE (does it sound familiar to anyone?)

Found a used 155 bowfront tank, and here it started


Fast forward to Oct 2009


Then decided to remove the sand


And then disaster happened when i overdosed my vodka, most of my coral died or brow out.

Then babies came and got no time for tank so sold most of my corals and left with fishes and some easy LPS. Add couple coral/fish here and there.

And now full again



Feeding time




And some other shots on my suppose QT tank



Here is my last fish i added 5 months ago and turn out he is a vegetarian.



Hopefully, in couple months i will able to compare with new pictures to see the growth of my tank