If You Are New to Reef Central, Introduce Yourself Here!

[NMC]

New here. This is my first post. I have a brand new 28 gallon Nano tank. I take that back. I ordered one, I don't have it yet. I dabbled with the hobby back in the early '80's, did badly, quit. Lots new since then so I'm hoping for success this time. I work, I have a corgi who is my best buddy, and 2 cats who sort of like me sometimes.

[Dobbers]

Not exactly new, but im working on getting to 10 posts so i can sent a pm. I have a rsm 130, bout a year old. Currently looking to upgrade to a larger tank, hence the need for pm.

[Trooper46]

Hello,

Been keeping FW fish for about 4yrs, but I recently picked up a 75gallon from a guy that had a few SW tanks. And now I think I have the itch to set one up my self.

~Nate

[97EclipseGSX]

Finally joined today. I have a 125 reef tank setup now came over from freshwater about 8 months ago. So far so good. Learning a lot. Have a refugium setup on the tank and I have used this board in the past for information.

[Shokoy]

Hi guys my name is Dave i live in the south east pacific of asia to be exact im from the philippines and its my first time to make a marine tank expect lots of questions from me hehehe anyway im glad that this forum accepted my region thank you very much Reef Central

[Mikesheap]

Hello, I'm Mike and this is my first time posting in a forum so please forgive me if i'm not doing this correctly. I started a saltwater aquarium last year but it was a disaster due to bad advice from LFS (which is out of business now lol!!). I have a 55 gallon tank and the setup before was 5 pounds of live rock, about a inch of live sand and a canister filter with just the floss in it, now that I did tons of research after losing $200 bucks of fish I have corrected my mistakes from the advice I received. the new setup is 5 pounds of live rock from previous attempt, 50 pounds of macro rock, canister (with floss, carbon, and ceramic rings), 2 powerheads, protein skimmer, and a ro/di unit. The tank was up for 3 weeks and I was feeding the tank ground up mysis shrimp for the cycling process and when I tested at the end of the three weeks All levels where at 0 and then I introduced my fish. I added a tomato clown and a yellow tang and there where already a peppermint shrimp and three hermit crabs (from the previous attempt that had survived the cycling) and ammonia started to spike a little (0.25) and no signs of nitrite or nitrates. To make a long story short, after talking to a owner of a small fish store near by I was told to use Seachem's Stability to aid the tank and I dosed the tank and on the third day of dosing my ammonia level was at 0 and on day 5 after doing my bi weekly maintenance (15% water change) my ammonia spiked back to 0.25 and now its day 6 of dosing with Stability and it's still holding at 0.25 with everything else at 0. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

[Stephy]

HI everyone! Been enjoying RC for the past few months and now time to introduce myself. I setup my first SW tank in 1991 while working at a LFS that provided alot of guidance to me. What a fulfilling hobby! I had several different tanks over the years but I admit it has been a while! Currently, I have a 29G FS tank with some angels that I love but am planning to dive back into SW again. I'm so astonished to see how much has changed from the days of wet-dry filtration, damselfish tank cycling, Moorish Idols, and corals being nearly impossible to sustain! I'm impressed to see how far the hobby has come.

Working on a dream tank of at least 180G inwall with basement sump, but in the meantime will be looking for a small system.

[chad763]

Hey everyone, new to the forums, and getting ready to get my 36g bow front aquarium setup.

[fishandreef2]

New to the site but not new to the hobby. I have 4 tanks total and I am in the process of changing out 2of of them. I have a 500, 210, 150,&145

[monkeynuts1]

Hi everyone I am new here but not to the hobby I am currently rebuilding my system into a brand new 3x2x2 sumped system

Comprising Vertex Illuminia lights Nac7 skimmer MP40 and running Bio Pearls in a gyractor

[Veganbrian]

Hello, im new to the site and the hobby. Starting my first saltwater tank and started a build thread.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...1#post19960925

[spiritualaura]

Hello, I'm new to this site, not so new to the hobby but still feel i have a lot to learn after reading so much great stuff on here.. i currently have a few issues with my 4ft marine set up.. where do i go to find a genius whom can name my un-named coral?

[ElkhornSea]

Hi all. One more newbie added to the mix. Good to see so many other enthusiastic reefers. Can anyone tell me what I have here? tank4.jpg

. . . the owner of the fish store had no idea other than it being a wrasse? Does this get big? WHAT HAVE I DONE?!

[Domminigan]

Hi. Name is Jon, I've been an aquarist for more than fifteen years, but am just now starting into saltwater.
My current tanks are 75g, 55g, 40g, and 6x10g. All freshwater If anyone reads this I'll be surprised! with Livestock.
Moving to Salt, I have a 75g with a 20g sump.
I don't have any marine live stock yet, and don't plan on getting any until I have both a well-started tank and a much better idea on how to take care of them.

[BFaith]

Nothing major, 75 gallon fresh water tank, starting a 125g / 180g sump salt water reef tank.
Never did a salt water tank before, I do know that using 3x 40 wat lights isnt going to be enough (what it came with)

Salt water tank was a custom make all acrylic tank, I paid very little for everything it came with, I think it was only used for a basic salt water fish tank, the lighting is very poor for live rock and they didnt have any skimmer inside the sump.

I replaced all the plumming and checked for any leeks, all is good.
The tank came with over 200 pounds of dead coral and crushed calsite, I first put in all of the 200 pounds of coral but after looking at it, it just looks like a pile of stuff in a tank..

I will say this... Fresh water tanks are easy to learn, but I know nothing about a salt water tanks, I got this tank because of the deal that was made, I couldnt pass it up. So now I need to see about getting a skimmer / useable lighing for live rock and some sand with out going broke.

Moving on..

[hotdogg]

New to this site...great stuff so far...I have been in salt water for many years, started with fish only, and slowly added softies and zoa's...I have gone bare bottom a few years ago and am still morphing and learning.

[nbgen12]

Hey all! Another new guy on RC. This site is great. I've been a member here for a few years now, but never really introduced myself. I started up a 55g long SW tank w/ a 10g sump, and hang on back refugium for chaeto. It's been up and running nearly 2 years now with some MAJOR ups and down and learning experiences. I think after 2 years I may finally have a pretty good understanding of the water chemistry, after some recent muff ups.

A busy fall semester at school got my tank a little neglected....not really any water changes, and was dosing a little iodine about once a week and some trace elements along with the normal calcium, magnesium....but somehow I didn't realize the importance of the alkalinity until the last few weeks. I currently have some green, orange, and brown zoas, some yellow polyps, green clove polyps, green maze brain coral, a couple miscellaneous mushrooms. AS for fish, I have 2 yellow tail damsels, 1 blackbar chromis, 1 yellow watchman goby/tiger pistol shrimp, and a sally lightfoot crab.

As you can imagine without dosing any alk, and dozing some iodine and other harmful things in bad amounts/hardly testing ever, I ran into a few problems. I lost a coral banded shrimp, and the zoas were receding especially bad. I think my ALK was at a dismal number around 2 or a tad lower even with too much iodine. I'm due for an ALK test later today, but the level is probably around 2.8-3.0 right now, so it's getting better, and i've done about 4 20% water changes over the last couple weeks.

I will have to post pictures and start a thread, as this is probably a good learning experience which can help other newbies learn to test often, keep good records of your tests, and to research the importance and thoughts from other reefers on water parameter items and dosing procedures.

I'm about to graduate with an accounting degree....funny how I'm in the field which focuses on budgets and such, yet this hobby has no end to the spending, haha. Absolutely love this hobby and can't wait to finish the tank recovery and get everything consistent with the tank.

I've definitely enjoyed everything this forum has to offer!

[billyboyk]

The same for me, after a lot of interesting readings, I registered myself today.

My name is Julien, I come from France, I have started a new tank 3 months after a break of 6 years. My new one is micro-reef "double face":



Not yet finished, everythings is controlled by Arduino Mega, hardware parts is about to be OK but I have to finished software.

Cheers!

Julien

[Canadaguy]

Hi all! my name is Darryl from Canada and I am glad to join the best and most educated saltwater forum in the world! - "Reef Central". Currently I have had a 120g tank going for the last year with mostly fish with a wee bit of coral. I decided shortly after the 120 gallon was set up that I should of went with a 6 ft 180g like I originally planned but jammed out being my first salt tank. I am now in the middle of my 180g build and will post lots of build pics!

[Ichris20]

Hello I'm new just registered and wondering how and when I can post a blog entry I'm new to the blog but not the hobby every one seems real friendly and helpful. Thanks !

[AT_Hiker]

Hello Everyone!

My name is Steve, and I live in Clayton, NC. I'm so new to this hobby that I don't even have a tank yet, but that will probably all change this coming weekend. I've found a brand new Marineland 75 gallon corner flow aquarium and the complete setup for a sump on craigslist for a pretty good price. For about the last year I've been reading "The Conscientious Marine Aquarist" and "The Reef Aquarium", and maybe snooping around a few forums. At the moment I have so much information floating around in my head that I'm not sure which way is up! But I'm planning on taking my time and doing this the right way...hopefully you folks can help me figure it out.

I look forward to meeting all of you,

Steve...aka AT_Hiker

[RSantilli]

Hey im new to the forum so I wanted to introduce myself I am Rebecca just call me Becka. I have a 45 gallon reef aquarium with 2 clowns, 2 cardinals, 1 sea star, 2 shrimp and 5 hermits.
Still getting my tank rolling it has been up for about 3 months now, I had a freshwater aquarium for about 2 years before my husband and I decided to go to Saltwater. Definitely a difference! Well hope to be seeing you all around.

[bearrally]

hello all,

I am Ken from Southern California, this will be my 1st salt water experience ever. cycling dry rock on 2nd week.

[MrRichieIII]

Hello everyone...I'm about to be transferring about 20lbs of liverock from my 10g pathetic attempt at a saltwater tank, into a 14g biocube. The LR was in a 20g for about a year...but after I lost my clownfish I didn't want to add anything else without more research. Then my precious daughter was born and the tank just kinda sat there. I don't know if anyone else's wife nag about starring at fish but my wife nags about me just sstarring at rock LOL. I liked seeing all the little creatures come outta no where. So anyway I'm gonna give it another go ...I feel better equipped with this biocube versus just trying to convert my old FW into SW by adding marine salt. (I know, what a lame-o) where was I going with this....??...oh yeah so I had a question about a piece of that LR, it has some sort of growth on it but I was sure if it was bad algae. Good algae or coralline. Its almost looks like a velvety reddish color feels a little slimy and has only been isolated to growing on that one rock . I just wanted to know if I should keep it in new tank or not I can post a pic if needed. Thanks for your time.

[jmann124]

Hey, obviously I'm new here. My name is Joey. I currently have only freshwater. I'll be posting some questions shortly dues to preparing to start my first saltwater tank, which will be a FOWLR. Hope to get great advice/help from all you experts.