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hello also from me. can't wait to read and read and read
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09/30/2010, 10:49 PM
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 To Reef Central Glad to have you with us. be sure to start a thread documenting your progress.
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09/30/2010, 10:51 PM
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To Reef Central Snails won't climb out of the tank, however they might come out of the water, not realizing it but return back shortly after, you won't see them on the outside of your tank though.
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09/30/2010, 10:53 PM
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To Reef Central start off with the stickies. EDIT: looks like you didn't stick around too long. RC has a way to know who you are, even with another user name.
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10/01/2010, 09:11 AM
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10/02/2010, 02:21 PM
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I am not exactly new to the forums, but figured it's about time to say hi all and start getting more involved here.
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10/02/2010, 05:20 PM
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To Reef Central Please get more involved, that's what makes this site so great.... the diversity.
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10/02/2010, 09:38 PM
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So its time to introduce myself I suppose!
My name is Tom and Ive been lurking in the shadows of this forum for a bit now. Ive done A TON of research about this hobby, and decided to dive in finally after careful consideration. I enjoy slow, tedious projects/hobbies that require a lot of detail and know how. Isn't this the perfect hobby for me? Lol. I have spent hundreds of dollars already on books, and spent hours and hours researching, while loving every second of it! I am very excited to start my journey of creating a living world of amazing species right in my home! I have been purchasing equipment now for the past few weeks. I will be starting to plumb some of this stuff together this coming week I believe. The time has almost arrived. My setup so far: Marine Land 75g tank w corner overflow/oak cabinet AE Tech Protean 400 sump w/built in ETSS skimmer & fuge AquaticLife Programmable 6x54w Lamp T5 HO w/LED MagDrive 9.5 return pump MagDrive 7 skimmer pump 2x Koralia Evolution 750gph 2x Koralia Evolution 1050gph Digital Aquatics ReefKeeper Elite w/Net I plan to go with sand, LR rubble and cheato in the fuge. Ill be using the Reefkeeper to regulate heating, wavemaking and monitoring pH and ORP. Ill use it for ATO in the future as well when Im ready to do that. I love the idea of being able to be sent a text message or an email if any parameters fail! 100 lbs of live rock, with 2-3 inch sand bed After the tank is cycled I plan to use a CUC consisting of: 5xcerith 5xnerite 5xnassarius 1xemerald crab 2xscarlett hermit MAYBE a serpent/brittle star (those legs kinda freak me out still) Ill start off with that, and add more if its deemed necessary I suppose. I would rather start off conservative as opposed to heavy and watch my CUC die off to starvation. For my fishes: 2xclowns 1xyellow tang (or a black tang if i can get my hands on a small one!) 1xorchid dottyback 2xgobies 1x fairy wrasse Fishes are a long way off as of now...I suppose I might have changes/new additions by then, who knows! Other Inverts: 2xpeppermint shrimp 2x skunk shrimp 1x pistol shrimp For corals Ill be starting with hardy, easy to keep ones in the beginning. I would like to have some stony corals and anemonies later when the tank has become stable months down the road. Well, I guess thats about it for now. Ill be taking lots of HD pics along the way, and post a thread detailing my progress throughout my journey. I look forward to making friends, and sharing information with everyone here. Thanks for reading! Last edited by C0rp; 10/02/2010 at 09:59 PM. |
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10/03/2010, 11:15 AM
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To Reef Central that is a pretty good right up, I would copy and paste it in a new thread so that others can see what your plans are and watch your progress. Seems like all your decisions are made with research, keep it up. hope to see a thread of your new 75 gallon tank real soon.
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10/04/2010, 09:45 AM
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Good morning everyone
another new guy to the forum here.Have been reefing for about 5years now cant remember how long exactly still taking in this coffee to wake brain up. my current tank setup: -36X30X18 -single 250W hqi (upgrading to a dual bulb setup this week i hope) -2 vortech mp10's goign to add either another 10 or just get a 20 to push water from the side and let the 2 10s push from the back. -BM150 with aquabee 2000/1 or something like that... -dual 2littlefishes Rx 1 for carbon, 1 for rowaphos -Dosing i am using a Medical Doser with dual line setup doses 1.5ml per min and i honestly cannot reacall how much i am dosing per day. The tank has been on idle for the last 3 - 5 months... -SPS Dominated, mostly ORA, and some Tyree with my pleasure to say i have successfully been growing a good old Purple Monster for the last year. I got it from a very well known reefer on here, he got tank of the month twice cannot remember the name however. Fish: -2 Bartlet anthias -1 Hippo for the kids and wife -2 clowns True percs for the kids and wife ofcourse -1 coris wrasse -1 6 line wrasse -3 Trimma/Eviota Gobies (tiny guys see them once in a blue) Pretty sure thats it. |
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10/04/2010, 06:35 PM
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Location: Springfield Mo
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Hey everyone, I thought I would introduce myself - My name is Josh and my brother in law got me into salt water. I recently bought a 75gal. corner overflow tank, ASM g3 skimmer, tek 6 bulb t5 light, 29 long sump. I'm just putting things together right now, that's all my budget will allow - a little bit at a time. But I build custom cabinets for homes and my brother in law wanted me to build him a stand for his 40 breeder. I had owed him a favor for quite sometime so I was happy to do it. I just finished it up a couple days ago and thought I would share it with you guys. I know in the pictures it looks like there is little to zero support. But the angles don't show the bracing/support of the stand, tell me what you guys think!
   
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10/04/2010, 09:28 PM
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10/04/2010, 11:07 PM
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Hello to all. I am Shane, I have been in saltwater for a little over a year now. I started with a 29g FOWLR. I the moved to a 72BF with some soft coral this past Feb. I am currently in the process of setting up my 180g. I am going to transfer all my goodies from the 72 into the tank and go mainly SPS. I have not kept any yet, but I think now is the time to make the leap. I will tap into the knowledge on this board often I am sure. Can't wait until the 180 is wet.
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10/04/2010, 11:35 PM
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Hello everyone! I'm another newbie hoping to start a tank within the next few months. I literally had the experience of waking up a few weeks ago and thought, "What if I started my own saltwater aquarium?" My degree is in biology, especially marine invertebrates, but I don't have husbandry experience. Despite my background, it never occurred to me until now that I can have a small piece of ocean close to me.
My plans are for a nano tank of all invertebrates (corals, snails, shrimp, maybe others). It's nano because my apartment is tiny, and invertebrates because I am more fascinated by them than fish, although I am interested in fish. I'm still in the research phase, learning about the equipment, chemistry, and figuring out what the #%$* I am getting myself into. This forum has been a great resource this past week, and I also ordered Borneman's Aquarium Corals, so I am really excited! Cheers. -Alex |
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10/05/2010, 07:43 AM
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To Reef Central Thanks for sharing your tank with us.
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10/05/2010, 11:08 AM
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To Reef Central Beautiful work, I like the matte finish, be sure to post pics of your stand here
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10/05/2010, 11:10 AM
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To Reef Central Be sure to check out the SPS forum for a lot of great tips on how to care for them.
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10/05/2010, 11:16 AM
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To Reef Central Sounds like your hobby and prefession is going to compliment each other. Nano tanks are somewhat different than other tanks based solely on the obvious, there design. Because of their unique Reef Central has given them their own forum here. hope to see your tank full of inverts shortly.
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10/05/2010, 04:13 PM
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Display 64 L ( Ciprian Stanescu / Romania)
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My name is Ciprian Stanescu, live in Bucharest / Romania. I'm at the beginning in the reef aquarium. I have 15 years experience in freshwater aquarium. More than half of them I spent in company discussion. Although I do not know how to take pictures, I present to you that I am currently aquarium. I got a chance, and instead making it difficult among those with Discus. Now I can say that this virus infected me ...! Hardware: - 64 L tank (cube breeding Discus) - Heater 100 W - Waves pump 3000 L / h - Circulating pump 200 L / h - Refugium 15x40x40 divided into two (located on the side) - Light: 1x150W MH, 14.000k. Substrate and live rock: - Display: - 2-3 cm 1-2 mm hole coral - 7-8 Kg live rock - Refuge - 12 cm hole 3-5 mm coral - Chaeto (lighting 8W, 24 / 7) Live Stock: - 2 Amphiprion ocellaris black (pair) - 2 Valenciennea sexguttata (pair) - 1 Blue hermint - A shrimp Palaemon elegans - 1 star snake - A crab (small, white, found when I removed the stone, do not know how and where they appeared) - 3 small turbo Corals: soft - green palithoa - Yet one with brown polyps (but shorter and wider) SPS - acropora yellow-green - Stylophora purple milka - Seriatopora caliendrum green fluorescent - Seriatopora caliendrum (garnet seems) - Montipora digitata red LPS - caulastrea 1. Sun Coral (when I almost got lost, and now is recovering very well). Chemistry: S: 1023 T: 26 degrees NO2 - 0 NO3 - tends to 0 PO4 - never outlandish KH: 9 pH: 8.2 to 8.4 As: 450 Mg: 1300 Tests from Serra majority. Aquarium came by chance in the house, being designed as a place to store, some live rock received from someone at the beginning of this year. Then came, as too was sitting empty, a lady (the worst choice: no one came to take any donated or after I gave a beer for that), and some macroalgal ....! The aquarium has been through a move from one room to another and obviously another loop, this time with some of the creatures inside. We designed Refugium site in this way because I wanted to sit next to you aquarium. Initially I used the controversial method, Monaco, filtration, but to me, in a few months, had N03 0. I quit once they move to this method, currently being provided by the biological filter substrate of the aquarium, live rock and substrate of the Refugium. Lately I've supplemented with bacterial cultures from Benue you've added in higher doses and at shorter intervals. I have physical filter! Like the lighting, I had what was originally the house of freshwater aquariums. 15W fluorescent paint me blue. Tank size does not allow me to highlight another match. Then we went 150W MH, 14000k, now reaching a steady light for 8 hours / day (9-17). I will increase to 10 hours. Flow is provided by a wave of 3000L/ora maker. I had only some diatoms which disappeared by itself and a long episode with green algae, occurring as a result of forgetfulness for 2 weeks of bright light while I was away on vacation. It has been solved! Living things grow very well (except red coral digitata montipora polyps that stay with partially open). Pisces 3-4x/zi fed with mixture of seafood, calamari, shrimp, vitamins, spirulina, etc ... Weekly water changes about 10%. Future Projects: - Restocking of coral frags with some mushrooms (I have not found )...! - Pico 16 L with a small attached Refugium (fast) - Reproductive clown (you will want to file, probably still young, making sexual differentiation at me) I write ... but already I miss your fingers! Although we have not a performance machine, the tank looks like, just do not know how to do best and that no miccsorez them to enter the site: http://www.trilulilu.ro/01ciprian/509ba8f8b91253 http://www.trilulilu.ro/01ciprian/b4fedd86199809 |
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To Reef Central Sounds like you have things under control, thanks for sharing your tank with us.
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Good evening all,
A friend introduced me to this site, and I'm very impressed so far. Happy to find such a great resource for questions and information. I kept freshwater off and on for years, and decided a few months ago to finally realize a longing I'd had forever and dive into saltwater. Initially I planned to just do a small tank, had a 20 gallon already and a t5 light I stumbled onto at a lfs doing liquidation before closing down. I set that up the beginning of August. It has about 30-40 lbs of well-seasoned live rock, and mostly inverts and corals.  Well, while getting supplies for the 20, I happened to notice a 57g Oceanic Illuminata. It was used, kinda scruffy, the previous owner hadn't kept the stand very nice. And it was priced very well. So, now I've had that set up for about 3 weeks now. (The stand cleaned up nicely with application of some matte black paint!) It has about 80 lbs of live rock, a 4-bulb + moon lights AquaticLife light I found also used, a nice sump with 'fuge, protein skimmer, Phosban reactor, etc. It presently has a CUC in it, and I'm looking forward to it being cycled. Oh, and that Koralia on the lower left seemed too intrusive, so I replaced it with a Vortech MP10 ES.   Lastly, I have purchased a 180g (from the really nice guy who recommended this site...thanks Zach!), and hope to have it set up in the next 2-3 weeks. This tank seems very ambitious to me, so I'm sure I'll have lotsa questions to ask on these forums!  Cheers, Starr |
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10/06/2010, 09:33 PM
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I'm new to this forum and to reef systems however I have had multiple fowlr systems going throught the years. I am a dive instructor and have thousands of dives but I no longer live in the Caribbean so I will bring the reef to me.
I purchased a 92ga corner, because I have to do things the hard way, for a family Christmas present last year. It has been running since. I have an ask g2 in a 24in diameter round sump for Max sump size. It is running at 15 GA with a sedra 900 pump. I am currently in the market for a pair of 250 Watt ballasts and pendants to run with a pair of t5s for more Color. I'm looking forward to the experience and learning new things here. Thanks for having me. |
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Location: Chico
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Hey my names Chase! New to Chico and looking to start piecing a new setup together. Just parted out and sold my 55gallon sps reef and 25 gallon frag/invert. Recently moved from San Diego where I was a member of an online reef community down there called sdreefs.net. Very similar to this site. So, hello!
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