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| Up to 33 Gallons (started out slow & didn't want to spend much) |
   
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71 | 38.38% |
| Up to 50 Gallons (did some research and decided to start out a bit bigger) |
  
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39 | 21.08% |
| Up to 90 Gallons (brave, and had some extra money at the time) |
  
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54 | 29.19% |
| Up to 150 Gallons (insane!) |
  
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14 | 7.57% |
| Up to 300 Gallons (Phhh, ya right) |
  
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7 | 3.78% |
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#3
07-13-2006, 10:44 PM
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Holy crap, I haven't even has a chance to respond to my own thread yet!
 Mine was a 28 bowfront, with 2 blue damsels, tufa rock and and modified eclips hood. Had it for 9 months before upgrading to a 54g corner.
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07-13-2006, 11:08 PM
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20 gallons, full of hair algae and not much else
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07-13-2006, 11:11 PM
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75g with a fluval filter and zero experience. No freshwater experience either. 75 was a total failure and an excercise in frustration that almost did me in. I'm either brave or stupid (no additional comments required) but I then jumped into a 230g with a 77g fuge/sump that is still up and running but it has since spawned and produced a 190g, a 44g. a 20g, a 24g and a 12g and is soon have another big baby with my 300g cube gets up and running.
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07-14-2006, 12:12 AM
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started with a 65g hexagon...big mistake, didn't know why it had a small tank under it and a hole in the tank (ok that's an overflow and sump)~ made plenty of errors~ bought cheap equipment then bought the right stuff
 started with very little information....bought 2 RBTA just past cycling ....still have a clone of the RBTA that is ok.....lost plenty of livestock and plenty of money but now it is an amazing reef tank! Something to be proud of! And it led us to the 120g and 50g tanks that we keep as well. Not a path I would wish on anyone else...that's for sure!
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07-14-2006, 02:48 AM
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My very first sw tank in the 80s was a 108g, which was about the largest you could get back then.
When I restarted on this addiction a few years ago, our first sw tank was a 33g. Now, I'm up to 280g of total sw volume in 3 display tanks & 2 sump/refugiums. Anthony
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07-14-2006, 05:36 PM
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Started out with a 75g in September 05. Wife thought that was a bit big.(Shellie thought a 50 g was big enough) Biggest mistake was not getting a drilled tank and sump. Took our time and percs were the first tenents. Now working on a second tank. Maybe a third. Would like to upgrade main tank to a 220g tank in a year or 2. Fascinating hobby, always learning something new.
Doug
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