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

[Fisher2014]

I am in the process of setting up my very first salt water tank. I'm starting out with 55 gallons and if this goes well I plan to add a bigger tank. Right now we just have salt water and sand going through the cycling process.

[bdharris66]

Hi I am Billy new to Reef Central and new to saltwater aquarium well I did have one about 20 years ago but a lot of things have change may need to ask stuff from time to time

[150gReef]

Hello all.

I'm new to the site. came here for some information on setting up a reef tank. I currently have three freshwater tanks, a 150g tall, 45g converted breeder with sump, and a 10g hospital.

Im in the process of converting my 150g(t) tank into a saltwater reef with 45g sump housing a RD-180 skimmer, BP reactor, Carbon reactor.

[alexebrenz]

Hi! I had a 55g planted freshwater tank for almost 3 years. It broked a year ago and now I'm planning to replace it with a reef tank between 90g and 120g!

[Mantisshrimpman]

Hello! total newb to reef tanks and salt water in general. I wanna learn though because I love some of the oceans critters and one of my goals is eventually to be knowledgeable enough to have a mantis shrimp. I hope I learned from experience as a kid never impulse buy (well in my case impulse collect) animals. When I did that I ended up killing my gold fish or my frog or bug or whatever I had caught. Same applies to things you buy. Learn learn learn and learn and then get.

[Reefnrob]

Hello all!

I'm new to reef central been on salt city for about 3 years now. Been in the hobby 4 years now started with a 55gal then a 93 cube and now I have a 4ft 120gal and a 24 nano. Started with t5s went to a DIY custom led build on my 93 then went to 250watt halides over my 120 now. Mixed reef for the most part but I now have the sps bug and planning on going all sps. I'm in the thought process of going to radion LEDs over my 120 for color and control. I may try and pick up a 200gal dd then do radions and t5s over it well see what the ol lady lets me get.

That's about all my history in the hobby I really enjoy this hobby the ocean is an amazing world!

[TooManyQuestion]

Hello, new to saltwater tanks and hope to be here for a while!

[20LogR]

Hello,

New to RC and salt! I've been keeping vivarium/terrarium and planted fresh water for several years but finally decided to take the plunge into SW. I have a new custom tank coming from GC's in a few weeks so I'm soaking up as much as i can before it arrives.

Boxes of goodies have been piling up for a few days. Just waiting on a tank now to get this started

[BlueViper]

Hi, I am new to Reef Central and to reef tanks. I have been around Freshwater for 30 years now. I have a 90 gal freshwater with angels & discus and my wife & I decided to get a 100 gal bowfront salt tank for Christmas. I went to the LFS and had them set it all up. It has been running for a few weeks now and we just added 4 Chromis and a Firefish. All is going well so far. Looking forward to adding more fish, anemones and coral. Just being patient and letting the tank age and settle in.
Dan St. John
Ft Collins, Co

[Mrs mop]

Hello everyone. I'm new to this kind of thing. We don't really do much technology but do read all your posts regularly. Hubby never uses computer so it's down to me to ask all the questions. He does all the equipment stuff and I do the nice bits, i.e. Placement and telling him what to do. We have kept marines for Many years on and off and things have changed so much. We recently bought an eheim 460 marine and absolutely love it. However the hood and lights are not that great. Thinking of getting razor 300w led. Anyone have one or any thoughts.

[dhjunkie]

Greetings from the Triad, NC. I've been out of the hobby since 2010 ish minding my own business. Then Triad Reef Cridders opens accorss the street from my job. Next I make the mistake of stopping by one evening on the way home from work. This afternoon I'll be digging through and testing the empty tanks in the shed to see which if any will still hold H2O. Go Chiefs.

[Northerntmlfan]

Hi all. I am brand new to the hobby. Just bought a 90 gallon that my girlfriend and I are going to set up and watch it grow. I guess you can say it will be our "child." I am sure I will ask a bunch of questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for having us and I look forward to this experience. :-)

[stammer]

Just doing my hello to everybody! I currently have a 90 gallon reef that I have been transitioning into from my old 60 gal which was my first saltwater tank and had been established for almost 3 years. Although I have learned much from this forum I feel I am still a newbie and am what I would call a budget minded reefer. I don't have the ability to go top of the line high end stuff like I see many people have on this forum, however I do pride myself on making a very functional yet pleasing tank to look at and enjoy. Compared to my days of freshwater tanks I still spend way more than I would like to on this hobby. It does seem that there is a gap between cheap low quality items and high end expensive items for this hobby. Even so I try to do my research and be a smart shopper! I do like the end product that all of the hard work and money produces though. For now I will probably continue to be a sponge soaking up all of your knowledge and experience. thanks!

[fiberartist]

I had a SW tank for 5 years (55 gal) which did very well. Sadly, had to give it up for personal reasons. I am now ready to start a 55 gal. FOWLR tank again. Someone has offered me live rock that they had in an old tank that they had let go. The rocks were in the water that had been evaporating, until the tank was half full. Also, the rocks are covered in green algea. Is there any hope to use them again, or am I just asking for trouble? I will be putting in 50 pounds of new live rock next week to start cycling the tank. There is about 30 pounds of this old rock available. I've been planning to use a raw shrimp to help with the cycling. Won't put fish in until water parameters have stabilized. Thanks in advance for any help you more experienced people can give me.

[weldfab]

hi My name is Charles started building reef aquarium about a year ago. Started with a 125 with busted bottom that was given to me. Replaced bottom and built cabinet and made a 20g refugium. currently running c-skim 1800 which works great a two little fishies 150. Two 16" euphotica leds and one 24" euphotica led. i have a plc that controls refugium lights, wave pumps, alarms high and low water levels and trends water temp as well as alarms temp. it also controls exhaust fan in hood. later it will control dosing pumps. here are a few pis of cabinet.

[weldfab]

more pics

[jco1856]

Hello RC

I currently have a 29 gallon reef running for about 9 months. Hoping to learn more from everyone

[zitra]

Hi from Prague, Czech Republic.

My name is Radek and I have finally decided to register. I am starting to build 74 gal reef tank (my first) and I have decided to track my progress in a blog on RC.
Radek

[wam13]

Hello there! I'm just now trying to setup my first tank.

I posted a thread with my first major issue to settle before setup, hoping I get some good advice!

[scubadan206]

Originally Posted by battys reef

Hello, My name is Chris. I am new to saltwater, I had a freshwater tank most of my life. Having a tough time getting my saltwater tank to settle. I do have a question, what size refugium do I need. I am currently looking at the CPR aquafuge2 (small) is this enough for copes and filtration for a 55 gallon cube style tank? I ask because I would like to hang it on the side of my tank due to space issues in the back. the medium is to large for the side and I cant afford an under tank refugium yet. Please help, I am losing coral also would i be able to get rid of my canister when i put the refugium on the tank?

Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!

Petco is having a 1$GAL sale on tanks. Go get sum....

[wam13]

I started a thread that appears to not be showing up. Any idea why? It shows for me, but not for others.

[trapline]

Hello all. I have read lots of great posts here and am happy to be a new member to Reef Central. I had a 45 gallon FOWLR tank 10 years ago for about a year and am getting back into things with a new 29g biocube reef. Thinking about a BSJF

[Salmo salar]

Hello everyone,
I set up my first salty tank in 10 years recently, its 6 months old now and not too shabby imo, need to get my nitrates and phosphates in check but im working on it. Alot has changed since my last tank, I love the new gadgets and gizmos. The advancements make keeping specimens that were before best left to advanced aquarists possible to keep provided the parameters are stable.

Thanks RC Im learning new stuff here every day.

[loride91]

Hello RC, I just acquired an unknown volume bowfront (I'm guessing around 80-90 gallons, it's 48.5" wide by 18 front to back in the middle, 12" on the ends, and 27" tall.) I am completely new to SW but do have a bit of experience with freshwater mainly african cichlids but also a couple planted south american tanks as well as freshwater shrimp tanks. I will likely have tons of questions and will start searching out the newb with only half a clue threads. I was actually directed here by a member on the cichlid forum. Have a good one and I'm excited to start in this new direction of the hobby.

[Arch4ngel]

Hello all fellow reefers, new to the hobby just under 2 yrs, have had freshwater most my life and used to raise veil tail angels to support my local lfs. now my focus has settled on saltwater and in the past year, i have ammased quite a collection of what were once sick or dying corals for little to no cash, and have propogated my tank enough for me to start building my new tank (125g jebo bowfront) now reef ready. here are a few photos



and the new tank


the favia i was told its a dragon soul, although i have seen more photos pointing to a prisim that refuses to split any input is always welcome and most appricitated!