Very first tank

[Ruth]

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.

[Chaloupa]

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!

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

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

[Kabong]

3.5 Gal Pico.
With a green clown goby and some shroom's

[EmilyB]

72g bowfront with a Berlin skimmer. Still drool over the pics and wonder sometimes.

[seashells]

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

[Funky_Fish14]

Lets see... Started with a 10g(because I was repeatedly told bigger = better for starting, nano= harder) so I thought, heck, If I can do this, I can do anything! (Little did I know....). That was.... wow, 2.5 or 3 years ago?(I dont even remember, lmao) It cycled fast, (2 weeks), I ended up with beautiful rock, tons of corals, no algae problems, a few snails and hermits, and only 2 20W PCs, in a 10g. So 2.5 months later, a 33 came along, and before it even had more than the 10g's contents plus extra live rock in it, I had a 75g on the way. My current set-up. In the next month, I have a 144g comming along, and everything is going to be done "right" this time. No cheaping out! Haha.

Chris

[fortheloveofcrabs]

A 5.5gal. Cleaner shrimp and a yellow tail blue damsel (who is still with me) three years ago. The tank is now the sump on my 16gal. It was really cool because it was in the bedroom and the lights (2 9watt screw in coralife CF) were on a wireless remote.

-Pauli

[StirCrazy]

my first set up was a 155 gal system.. the same one I am running now less the 25 gal tank.

Steve

[Johnny Reefer]

Hmmm. Tough to answer.
Technically, my first SW was a small...20g?...30g?....way back in....'75?...'76?, but I failed miserably and it was up and running for all of one or two months. Originally, it was my first FW tank and then tried SW with it when I upgraded FW to a 60g. It was so long ago I hardly remember a thing about, other than I didn't know what the heck I was doing. I was only like 15 at the time.
Otherwise....the 135g Reef I started in Feb 2005....which is now a FOWLR and the Reef is a 180g.

Cheers,