Your Very First Tank

[spit.fire]

72 bow front
55 standard
14g bio cube
150
8' 280
90g breeder
75g
2g pico
Another 14g bio cube
29g bio cube
20g cubish
24" cubish 45g
112g shallow 6'x30x12
3'x24x20


my list of fresh water tanks is probably 3x as long

[riceboy]

Let's see reef only right

5 gallon
10 gallon
30 gallon tall tank
8 gallon aqua giant nano
34 gallon neo tank with 8 gallon seahorse tank
82.7 gallon tank 1 piece starfire eurobrace 1st one from concepts

That's not to bad I guess lol

[Spyd]

Only 2 for me...

75G - Mixed Reef ran for 2 years then upgrades to my current 180G. No more upgrades for a while.... Unless I can convince my wife otherwise.

Here's what it looked like about a year in:

[matt_C]

1-20g
2-40g
3-55g
4-90g
5-110g
6-90g
7-55g
8-65g
9-29g
10-90g
11-110g
12-145g
13-90g
14-90g (5 foot long)
15-135g
16-180g
17-90g
18-1200G

[Scuba Diver Gal]

Originally Posted by matt@concept

1-20g
2-40g
3-55g
4-90g
5-110g
6-90g
7-55g
8-65g
9-29g
10-90g
11-110g
12-145g
13-90g
14-90g (5 foot long)
15-135g
16-180g
17-90g
18-1200G

So I guess you like a 90G tank? I want to see that 1200 g tank some day! Still fish only?

[soapy]

Pretty sure my first tank was an ice cream bucket with minnows in it.

[gregzz4]

I killed my first goldfish when I was 7
When I was 10 I was breeding Betas and Guppies
Then no fish until I was 20 and had a 6' 120g, 2 20s and a 10g, with lots of boring tropical stuff plus my prized 18" pleco. He was buried in the back yard when he was done
Couple years after that the 120 was setup again as well as a 33g (both freshwater)
Couple years after that I was breeding cichlids in the 120 and the 33 was setup as a community 'tropical' tank in my parents' LR. Mom loved coming home to watch the fish
Things were moved around and sold
Then no tanks for 20 years
Another 125g freshwater with a 36g shrimp tank and a couple 20s for QT etc

Salt started when I became frustrated with stag algae that kept killing all my freshwater plants

[29Bio]

I first got into saltwater ate the age of 15 when I bought a fully stocked 14 gallon biocube. After a year of hard work everything was still alive and flourishing, the half dead hammer frag I got with it was 5 or six big heads, toadstool I didn't know was in the tank grew huge!
After I saw my success I upgraded to the 29HQI Biocube, kept that running for two years and then moved some of the live rock into a little 8 gallon rimless tank that I have currently.
I have just purchased a 90 gallon and dipping my feet into the larger reef world, man this is the best hobby ever!!!

So just three reefs in the past, probably 50 freshwater in the past as well. Currently just took down my last freshwater…spend a little more time reefing

[Reef Pilot]

Like many, I started off with FW when I was young, but was out of the hobby for many years. Then we bought a house 3.5 years ago with a 100g SW tank already in place. That got me started with the reef hobby. I added a 130g downstairs a couple years later. Both tanks are doing fine, but my original 100g upstairs tank is still my main show tank. Here is my tank journal for the complete history.
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...d.php?t=102101