Hey guys. So I have been out of the hobby for a couple of years but decided its time for me to get back into it. Been trolling the forum and checking everyone's systems and made me long for my own one again.
So a bit of background. I started my first marine tank in 2011. First year at University in Bloemfontein. Not alot of money available as it gets used up for other things. Luckily I met an awesome reefer there by the name of Jon Goetsch. He helped me out alot and was always generous with frags and advice. So stupid as I was and over eager I got a Boyu tl450 which I quickly realised wasn't going to cut it. Jon and I built myself a 1m tank that I ran for 2 years. Unfortunately no pics.
So in 2015 University and all the fun is done I moved back to the farm located in the Tsitsikamma, Eastern Cape. Now it was easier for me to start a tank at home and just transfer all the livestock to that tank than moving the whole thing down from Bloem. Yet again Jon baby sat my livestock for 3 months and brought it down to me. What a champ. So I had a 1.5m tank which looked like this:
So that was the setup on the farm. The cube was added at a later stage as I had this awesome toby that I caught. Yes I had the right permits etc. I was just to found of him but he ate the corals i put in the tank, only certain ones, so he got his own little home.
August of 2015 I got the opportunity to go work in America on big machines. It always was a dream of mine to go work there. Parents didn't want to look after the tank for me so I had to sell it.
So that was my love for machines adventure all done. I came back to the farm full time and started taking over from my dad. I started up a small cube because I already craved the salty side again
Not 100% understanding the amount of work going into a dairy farm of 2500 cows I soon realised it and couldnt get to the tank as I wanted to.
So a bit of background. I started my first marine tank in 2011. First year at University in Bloemfontein. Not alot of money available as it gets used up for other things. Luckily I met an awesome reefer there by the name of Jon Goetsch. He helped me out alot and was always generous with frags and advice. So stupid as I was and over eager I got a Boyu tl450 which I quickly realised wasn't going to cut it. Jon and I built myself a 1m tank that I ran for 2 years. Unfortunately no pics.
So in 2015 University and all the fun is done I moved back to the farm located in the Tsitsikamma, Eastern Cape. Now it was easier for me to start a tank at home and just transfer all the livestock to that tank than moving the whole thing down from Bloem. Yet again Jon baby sat my livestock for 3 months and brought it down to me. What a champ. So I had a 1.5m tank which looked like this:
So that was the setup on the farm. The cube was added at a later stage as I had this awesome toby that I caught. Yes I had the right permits etc. I was just to found of him but he ate the corals i put in the tank, only certain ones, so he got his own little home.
August of 2015 I got the opportunity to go work in America on big machines. It always was a dream of mine to go work there. Parents didn't want to look after the tank for me so I had to sell it.
So that was my love for machines adventure all done. I came back to the farm full time and started taking over from my dad. I started up a small cube because I already craved the salty side again
Not 100% understanding the amount of work going into a dairy farm of 2500 cows I soon realised it and couldnt get to the tank as I wanted to.
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