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

[TwistedEnvy]

Welcome to Reef Central! I would also love to see some pics

[Adam Montana]

hi there! (obligatory introduction post )

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Adam Montana
hi there! (obligatory introduction post )

obligatory welcome post


To Reef Central Adam, where the obligations are few

[Popealicious]

Hi all,
I've been keeping freshwater tanks for a while now and have decided to take the plunge into saltwater. I stumbled across Reef Central and after browsing the forums in the shadows for an hour or two, I decided to join. I'm starting a 30 gallon tank soon and should be full of new-to-marine questions. Hope to get to know you all.
~Nick

[Squiers007]

Hey everyone,

I have been keeping SW tanks for almost 2 years now and have just come across this site so I thought I would say hi. Currently I have a 20 gallon tank setup with softies and a few LPS corals. I am planning to upgrade to a 75 gallon in about a month or so and will start a thread when I start to pull things together.

A little more about myself. I am a graduate student in Marine Biology at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi and will be graduating in August and starting my Ph.D. My main areas of study are in coral genetics and evolution.

Alright, well thats all for now. I look forward to learning a ton and helping out wherever I can! Have a great day!

[WestTxReefer]

Hi im farely new to the hobby (4-5 years is fairly new to me) and just thought i would post my required introduction..


i actually own 1 tank and sorta own a second.

Mine is a 75g oceanic RR, 40g sump witha built in fuge, and a home made skimmer that came with the tank. it has a home built canopy as well, with MH's and 4 T5 bulbs, not sure on the wattage or any other info, as i have yet to set the tank up and will be replacing them with newer bulbs.

The tank that i "sorta" own is a 35g all glass OLD tank that was given to me by a friend for around 10 bucks lol. It has 3 T5 bulbs with the pretty ( and useless IMO) built in LED's. It has roughly 40 lbs of LR, both a mixture figi and tonga. I recently moved back to Texas from the Durango Co. area and upon moving back i had to set up camp at my folks place for a couple weeks while i closed on my new house. laugh if you want, mom's rent is waaaay cheaper then my new mortgage payment. LOL She has only fish at the moment, well except for the few little bits of leather that clung on during the move back. Im pretty sure we have a few yellow tail damsels, a yellow tang and a silly maroon clown who acts like a new puppy. OH... we use a canister filter, YES i said it... CANISTER filter.. its a magnum 350 and it works just dandy lol

Anyway i live in Odessa Tx, and am currently looking for a local reef club, or looking to start one i know there are a lot of reefers in my area, as i have been reefing in the area for a while myself..

I will be starting my new tank and the set up in the next week or so, i work out of the country so its kind of hard to do it in a timely manner, but i will post pics of the progress as it comes, which will be at a snails crawl lol

WTR

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Popealicious
Hi all,
I've been keeping freshwater tanks for a while now and have decided to take the plunge into saltwater. I stumbled across Reef Central and after browsing the forums in the shadows for an hour or two, I decided to join. I'm starting a 30 gallon tank soon and should be full of new-to-marine questions. Hope to get to know you all.
~Nick

thanks for posting Nick--ask away


To Reef Central Nick

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Squiers007
Hey everyone,

I have been keeping SW tanks for almost 2 years now and have just come across this site so I thought I would say hi. Currently I have a 20 gallon tank setup with softies and a few LPS corals. I am planning to upgrade to a 75 gallon in about a month or so and will start a thread when I start to pull things together.

A little more about myself. I am a graduate student in Marine Biology at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi and will be graduating in August and starting my Ph.D. My main areas of study are in coral genetics and evolution.

Alright, well thats all for now. I look forward to learning a ton and helping out wherever I can! Have a great day!

wow a marine biologists studying coral genetics----I think we will be the ones asking you questions


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[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by WestTxReefer
Hi im farely new to the hobby (4-5 years is fairly new to me) and just thought i would post my required introduction..


i actually own 1 tank and sorta own a second.

Mine is a 75g oceanic RR, 40g sump witha built in fuge, and a home made skimmer that came with the tank. it has a home built canopy as well, with MH's and 4 T5 bulbs, not sure on the wattage or any other info, as i have yet to set the tank up and will be replacing them with newer bulbs.

The tank that i "sorta" own is a 35g all glass OLD tank that was given to me by a friend for around 10 bucks lol. It has 3 T5 bulbs with the pretty ( and useless IMO) built in LED's. It has roughly 40 lbs of LR, both a mixture figi and tonga. I recently moved back to Texas from the Durango Co. area and upon moving back i had to set up camp at my folks place for a couple weeks while i closed on my new house. laugh if you want, mom's rent is waaaay cheaper then my new mortgage payment. LOL She has only fish at the moment, well except for the few little bits of leather that clung on during the move back. Im pretty sure we have a few yellow tail damsels, a yellow tang and a silly maroon clown who acts like a new puppy. OH... we use a canister filter, YES i said it... CANISTER filter.. its a magnum 350 and it works just dandy lol

Anyway i live in Odessa Tx, and am currently looking for a local reef club, or looking to start one i know there are a lot of reefers in my area, as i have been reefing in the area for a while myself..

I will be starting my new tank and the set up in the next week or so, i work out of the country so its kind of hard to do it in a timely manner, but i will post pics of the progress as it comes, which will be at a snails crawl lol

WTR

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Looking forward to future pictures you post

[kar93]

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[TheCasa]

howdy. I have been re-bitten by the reef bug and am designing my tank. Came here to get good and educated before I spend too much money and still don't do it right.

[Michael]

Originally posted by TheCasa
howdy. I have been re-bitten by the reef bug and am designing my tank. Came here to get good and educated before I spend too much money and still don't do it right.

welcome to the hobby and i hope you enjoy the site

[marpat]

Hi Out There:

Just joined RC and want to set up a 125 gal reef tank. Have talked to several salt water stores, read several books and checked out various web sites and have received a lot of different information. Now I am really confused as to exactly what equipment is needed to begin. I have decided the I want a
RO/DI system and a sump. If anyone has any ideas on how to obtain good information, please let me know. Thanks pat

[WaterKeeper]

Hi Pat

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Those are good first steps. You also want to look into lighting as it is very important. Skimmers, of one type or the other, are pretty much common place on larger tanks. Natural filtration is the method of choice, so be prepared to shell out some bucks for LR and sand. Take a look at Reefkeeping Magazine for all sorts of articles on setting up a tank.

[dawaterboy]

After getting an old fw tank going for my girlfriend I got sucked into the hobby. Her tank is still up and running and I have since purched a 46g bowfront. I started off with brackish puffers but found that the options for these tanks are pretty limited. I have since got rid of the puffers and have gone full salt. The tank has been running for nearly a month at the higher sg and is doing pretty good as far as I can tell. I added about 25-30 pounds of lr to my 40-50 pounds of br. The sand bed is now full of life and the hermits are doing what they do all day and night. I have also purchesed a lawnmower blenny and some turbo snails to complete the first team of a growing cuc. I will be moving the tank next week to a better location and will be slowly adding fish and soft corals as soon as things balance back out.

[teapua]

got a glass 55(tiny leaks on front seals) w/ stand(pine); overflow box with siphon; lots of pool hoses; small manufactur acrylic sump w/bio,return pump and sponges for 150$ from a friends garage..

I ordered currentUSA outer orbit hqi/t5 lighting system, deltec AP600 protien skim, hydor koralia 2 and 3, two 150 heaters and a fish net.

also going to attempt to drill holes in the back to try and copy - Silent and Failsafe Overflow System.

maybe i can post pictures of some of the items that already have implemented??? not sure where to post them - but that's me in a shell - hope you're swell!

[Poeticlydead]

this is the second time I have typed this all out first time hit submit and the site decided I wasn't logged in :P

Umm saying hello in a forum post just seems strange to me so I'll jump right in.

I recently (1.5 months) aquired a 90 gallon aquarium that I have all ready set up.
Equipment:
90 gallon glass tank
20L gallon DIY sump
Coralite protein skimmer
Mag 7 return pump
Koralia (1200 GPH) prop type circulation pump
Maxijet 600 (stand in for now)
Roughly 100 lbs of live rock
3 inch bed of aragonite reef sand
6 bulb T5 Nova extreme (3 actinic, 3 54 watt 10k whites)
I did all the plumbing my self including a 1" pvc over flow and 2 3/4" supplys fed by 1/2 id cpvc.

Stock:
2 clown fish
1 goby
2 hermits (had a couple more)
2 Turbo snails
4 Astraea snails

1 small frogspawn
1 ultra small (5 heads) green button polyp frag
1 star polyp colony
1 Rhodactis colony
1 Blue mushroom colony

Also the typical additions that come in with the live rock (sponges etc..) oh and Chaeto in the refugium.

Well I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions as I go and hope to be a usefull addition to the forums before to long.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by dawaterboy
After getting an old fw tank going for my girlfriend I got sucked into the hobby. Her tank is still up and running and I have since purched a 46g bowfront. I started off with brackish puffers but found that the options for these tanks are pretty limited. I have since got rid of the puffers and have gone full salt. The tank has been running for nearly a month at the higher sg and is doing pretty good as far as I can tell. I added about 25-30 pounds of lr to my 40-50 pounds of br. The sand bed is now full of life and the hermits are doing what they do all day and night. I have also purchesed a lawnmower blenny and some turbo snails to complete the first team of a growing cuc. I will be moving the tank next week to a better location and will be slowly adding fish and soft corals as soon as things balance back out.

To Reef Central Dawaterboy

IMO its time to start a build thread here and post some pictures of your progress

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by teapua
got a glass 55(tiny leaks on front seals) w/ stand(pine); overflow box with siphon; lots of pool hoses; small manufactur acrylic sump w/bio,return pump and sponges for 150$ from a friends garage..

I ordered currentUSA outer orbit hqi/t5 lighting system, deltec AP600 protien skim, hydor koralia 2 and 3, two 150 heaters and a fish net.

also going to attempt to drill holes in the back to try and copy - Silent and Failsafe Overflow System.

maybe i can post pictures of some of the items that already have implemented??? not sure where to post them - but that's me in a shell - hope you're swell!

Start your own thread in this forum--call it teapua's build thread as a suggestion.


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[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Poeticlydead
this is the second time I have typed this all out first time hit submit and the site decided I wasn't logged in :P

Umm saying hello in a forum post just seems strange to me so I'll jump right in.

I recently (1.5 months) aquired a 90 gallon aquarium that I have all ready set up.
Equipment:
90 gallon glass tank
20L gallon DIY sump
Coralite protein skimmer
Mag 7 return pump
Koralia (1200 GPH) prop type circulation pump
Maxijet 600 (stand in for now)
Roughly 100 lbs of live rock
3 inch bed of aragonite reef sand
6 bulb T5 Nova extreme (3 actinic, 3 54 watt 10k whites)
I did all the plumbing my self including a 1" pvc over flow and 2 3/4" supplys fed by 1/2 id cpvc.

Stock:
2 clown fish
1 goby
2 hermits (had a couple more)
2 Turbo snails
4 Astraea snails

1 small frogspawn
1 ultra small (5 heads) green button polyp frag
1 star polyp colony
1 Rhodactis colony
1 Blue mushroom colony

Also the typical additions that come in with the live rock (sponges etc..) oh and Chaeto in the refugium.

Well I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions as I go and hope to be a usefull addition to the forums before to long.

You are well on your way--time to start a build thread and post some pictures of your tank.


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[luvmylo]

Hey guys I have been semi lurking here for a couple of years now and decided to start posting. I have been in the hobby since 2003 and love every part of it. The system I have now was put together on a really tight budget but it's working well and has been up for six months now.

System
150 gallon glass (60 x 24 x 24)
2 x 25 gallon sumps tied together(used from smaller systems)
2 skimmers (1 coralife 125 and a pci pc2000)
2 return pumps 500 gph each (1 running through 1/3 hp chiller)
2 x 400 mh with sps 14k bulbs (love the spectrum and my corals do too)
Lifereef Calcium Reactor
3 x korali 4 ph and 1 x seio 1100 (still not enough)
100 lbs lr
various fish but my babies are my Leutenant tang and purple tang
Several sps corals but my favs are my ora purple plate and ora red planet
couple lps corals including an elegance

any other questions, just ask

[jfinn2008]

hello i am new to the forum and new to the world of reef tanks. I am just starting a 180 gal. reef tank so far i have some inverts, fish and my first coral a frogspawn as well as some frags. Planning to take it slow and learn as I go I look forward to communicatiing in the forums.

[fishcube 3.0]

Hi I'm Roy, from the Philippines. I'm fairly new to the hobby of reefkeeping. But I have some experience keeping marine fishes. I have a 75 gal reef tank with a 40 gal sump using plastic storage bins. It has a 250 gal cap protein skimmer, a 2200 li/hr return pump. I use 2 1200 L/hr circulation pump in the display tank. I presently have a kenya tree, couple of Gonioporas, an ancora sp., a small frogspawn coral, an orange and green zooanthids,and several discosomas. As for the fishes; I only have a foxface, a firefish, a small nisso tang, and a pair of spawning dragonets. Whew...

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by luvmylo
Hey guys I have been semi lurking here for a couple of years now and decided to start posting. I have been in the hobby since 2003 and love every part of it. The system I have now was put together on a really tight budget but it's working well and has been up for six months now.

System
150 gallon glass (60 x 24 x 24)
2 x 25 gallon sumps tied together(used from smaller systems)
2 skimmers (1 coralife 125 and a pci pc2000)
2 return pumps 500 gph each (1 running through 1/3 hp chiller)
2 x 400 mh with sps 14k bulbs (love the spectrum and my corals do too)
Lifereef Calcium Reactor
3 x korali 4 ph and 1 x seio 1100 (still not enough)
100 lbs lr
various fish but my babies are my Leutenant tang and purple tang
Several sps corals but my favs are my ora purple plate and ora red planet
couple lps corals including an elegance

any other questions, just ask

I am glad you started to post--you definetly have some excellent experience to share. How about posting some pics of your system?


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[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by jfinn2008
hello i am new to the forum and new to the world of reef tanks. I am just starting a 180 gal. reef tank so far i have some inverts, fish and my first coral a frogspawn as well as some frags. Planning to take it slow and learn as I go I look forward to communicatiing in the forums.

To Reef Central Jfinn2008
That is a great size of tank to start with. what fish are you intending to keep?