Just found out about this place and stopping by to say hello!
Wife got me a jelly fish tank for Christmas last year, (jellyfishart.com 3 Jelly kit) and that's what started it all. The little 5 gallon, no filter, no anything salt water with little floating Jellies has grown into something much larger.
We kept our jellyfish alive for several months, but we took a vacation and didn't train up our house sitter enough I guess :(
But that meant we had a tank with nothing in it to turn into whatever else we wanted -- Water, a filter, little bit of LR and LS, and a couple of weeks later we have two little mushrooms and a Red Legged Hermit Crab :D (not pictured, he was shy)
They've been kicking around for a week or so and the Wife and I decided we were ready for something more than 5 gallons. We kept hearing that bigger is better when starting out so watching KSL.com we found a new-for-us 90 gallon tank with almost a full system also. Cabinet, Lights, (most of the) plumbing, Sump with 3 sections, Skimmer, even a Reactor! Missing a return pump, heater, and no power heads. But for a great price to get us rolling!
Jimmy over at at Live Rock N Reef was amazing through getting stuff and setup and everything. Also pointed us over here for this community!
As of today it's installed (Thanks Jimmy!) and ready to add stuff, once we get the Return pump (Heading out to get one after work today!).
No water, or anything in it yet, but here's what we're looking at! I'm excited to get to meet everyone on here and to get into a new hobby :D
Pictures of our new stuff below here
How it looks all put together -- Wife didn't like the empty tank so she gave it some life with Dry Erase Markers until we get things put in it
All our equipment -- it had been left uncleaned so was covered with flith, dust, algae, salt deposits, and every other cruddy stuff you can imagine. We spent 3 days doing nothing but cleaning!
I didn't get before pics, but you can see that this is actually a white pipe under all the crud we cleaned off!
Probably way more than we need for a 90, but it came with the setup so i'm not complaining!
Gotta keep the water happy
Here's our sump all plumbed (Except the return pump, that will go on the left-side chamber).