Caribbean Reefers Show Your Pics!!!!!

[caribngg]

I was wondering If there was any one else Here in the caribbean who loves this hobby like I do I am in St Thomas Virgin Islands, Here is the pictures of my current tank.


If you are in the caribbean, eastern ,western, southern or northern post a pic of your tank, I would really like to start a caribbean reefers club or thread were we could share ideas and challenges unique to our part of the world. LET'S HERE FROM YOU!!!!

[DaveG99]

Your lucky you can just go to the ocean and collect nice stuff. I used to live in Puerto Rico and visited st thomas and st john many times. Do you collect stuff?

[caribngg]

Yes I do Dave, Right now I am about 50% local. I used to be 100 % but My system was not set up right and I was not as experienced as i am now.
Now, in the current pic, my sand, cleanup crew, rock and one anem and a coral I dont have a name for are local, Alittle later today I will post a pictoral history of my tank. Why did you move from puerto rico ?

[caribngg]

These are pics of my tank "all Natural" in 2005





Everything Except the fish in here came from local sources, However I did not have the info on curing live rock An the dreaded curse of the bio balls

[caribngg]

After a crash in eraly 2006 I re built, and added csome more live stock from a trip to maryland, Before the dreaded 3 oz rule of tsa



The new livestock added

[caribngg]

I then got the crazy idea that I wanted my tank to look moore natural, like my local reefs, so i decided to add some grape colopra and another type that is comon around here, BIg Mistake


And by early 2007 Disapointment and heartbreak

[caribngg]

For the rest of the year I kind of left the tank to itself, and around christmas time stripped down and started over again, this time removing the bio balls


In Installed a new t5 lighting system thanks tothe wisdom of grimreefer and the guys at reef geek


These are what survived



plus a new guy

[caribngg]

Things got hectic at work, started a new project and time was a problem, and you know what happens with neglect. So in december after reading the tank of the month of louis gonzalez in puerto rico and visiting him while on vacation there I embarked upon my "final" rebuild.
I put in a new sump with a refugium, a new skimmer, an automatic top off system, new plumbing and a calcium reactor. the biggest thin that i have learned is you must keep your system in balance and make changes ever so slightly. This brings me to the present



Its my goal to make sure that It stasys this way for years to come, so if you have any suggestions please let my know I still have alot to learn from you guys out there.

[Kdocimo90]

looks like you're on a much better track than the first time... keep up the good work!

[caribngg]

Thanks kdocimo90 It's been a long journey, But I must say Reefcentral Has been a BIG!!! Help There is so much information here> I've been a member here since 2006 bot did not relly pay attention untill late 2007/2008. As you can see it's paying off. Most of the present livestock came from fellow reefers through the buy/sell/trade forum and especially my good friend reefcrawler

[caribngg]

I guess, besides the guys in puerto rico, there isn't any one else regestered on reef central from any were else in the caribbean