A Huge, Huge Thank You!!!

MrsHaggis · 02/06/2009, 05:46 AM

I want to thank everyone who has helped me over the last few months. With your help I have avoided buying fish and coral that don't suit my tank! I have learned the importance of drip acclimation, temperature, lighting, and so many other things.

For those of you who helped me with my nitrates/dead flow area you have helped bring my nitrates down to 0 for the first time EVER!!! They were normally around 40 to 60 and I didn't know why.

My leather toadstool is now doing well, my clown fish is fine and those tiny little bug things turned out to be amphipods, so that's good too!!!

I now know how to test for Alk and why it's important; I know how to mix salt and how to test its density and which animals like which density......

So thank you everyone!!!
If it hadn't been for all of you I wouldn't have lasted this long in this difficult and sometimes frustrating hobby. Instead, my husband and I are planning on getting a MUCH bigger tank - when we can afford it (may have to start selling my organs....)!!!

bkvreef · 02/06/2009, 06:49 AM

I couldn't agree with your sentiments more!
I tell my wife that my time on this site is research because they don't make a Consumer Reports for saltwater tanks! No she doesn't buy.
Nice post.

Michael · 02/06/2009, 07:21 AM

great news fiona, great news

Whys · 02/06/2009, 07:24 AM

Always nice to see one of these. RC rocks.

Lemeshianos · 02/06/2009, 07:25 AM

How much do you sell your liver? Have you been drinking during your life or even been alcoholic?

True, sometimes the cost is too much. I've been buying piece by piece for almost a year and haven't started yet. Hopefully by the summer I'll have everything I need.

tims28gnano · 02/06/2009, 09:08 AM

+1 fiona!!

put some more pics in your gallery, show us your improvements!

glad to hear the leather is better!

MrsHaggis · 02/06/2009, 01:44 PM

I'm waiting until i get my next coral and fish arrivals before I post more piccies.

I have ordered what I want from my lfs, instead of just taking whatever they might have and "recommend".......

My last two fish (tank way too small) will be a 6-line wrasse and an orange-spotted blennie and the coral i have ordered is a mushroom polyp........not having much luck with the lfs though. I think, he thinks, that I will cave and just buy what he has in stock - not gonna happen; this hobby has given me a severe backbone!!!

I'd like to get another shrimp too but I have to find out what is killing my shrimp and crabs first.....could have been the high nitrates but I want to rule out copper too. I used to use the tank for keeping goldfish and every time I bought a new one I would add an anti-stress/disease liquid. It is supposed to be just plants but you never know. So I will rule out copper at the weekend and take it from there.

Tim, as soon as I have something new I will post the pics. Promise!!

02/06/2009, 05:46 AM	#1
MrsHaggis Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: St Louis, France Posts: 675	A Huge, Huge Thank You!!! I want to thank everyone who has helped me over the last few months. With your help I have avoided buying fish and coral that don't suit my tank! I have learned the importance of drip acclimation, temperature, lighting, and so many other things. For those of you who helped me with my nitrates/dead flow area you have helped bring my nitrates down to 0 for the first time EVER!!! They were normally around 40 to 60 and I didn't know why. My leather toadstool is now doing well, my clown fish is fine and those tiny little bug things turned out to be amphipods, so that's good too!!! I now know how to test for Alk and why it's important; I know how to mix salt and how to test its density and which animals like which density...... So thank you everyone!!! If it hadn't been for all of you I wouldn't have lasted this long in this difficult and sometimes frustrating hobby. Instead, my husband and I are planning on getting a MUCH bigger tank - when we can afford it (may have to start selling my organs....)!!! __________________ Nothing scarier than a clown!! ----------------------------- 1 ClownFish 1 SixLine Wrasse 1 Foxface Rabbitfish Mushrooms Long Polyp Leather Green Anchor Coral Zoanthids Trumpet Coral Goniopora Current Tank Info: 360 litre (95 US Gallons), Tunze DOC Skimmer 9010, Lights: Metal Halide 250 Watt and 2x24 Watt Moon Lights, Tunze MultiController 7095

02/06/2009, 07:21 AM	#3
Michael NTTH Rookie Help Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gloucester, England,UK Posts: 7,808 Blog Entries: 6	great news fiona, great news __________________ Don't be afraid to ask questions, we in the new to the hobby are here to help you [For My Tank Spec,Photo Album,Articles and website, click on my name] MY Very Kindest and Warmest Regards , MIKE Current Tank Info: I have a 92 gal Corner Tank, and way too many pieces of equipment to list really, (proud member of the reef central corner club)

02/06/2009, 01:44 PM	#7
MrsHaggis Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: St Louis, France Posts: 675	I'm waiting until i get my next coral and fish arrivals before I post more piccies. I have ordered what I want from my lfs, instead of just taking whatever they might have and "recommend"....... My last two fish (tank way too small) will be a 6-line wrasse and an orange-spotted blennie and the coral i have ordered is a mushroom polyp........not having much luck with the lfs though. I think, he thinks, that I will cave and just buy what he has in stock - not gonna happen; this hobby has given me a severe backbone!!! I'd like to get another shrimp too but I have to find out what is killing my shrimp and crabs first.....could have been the high nitrates but I want to rule out copper too. I used to use the tank for keeping goldfish and every time I bought a new one I would add an anti-stress/disease liquid. It is supposed to be just plants but you never know. So I will rule out copper at the weekend and take it from there. Tim, as soon as I have something new I will post the pics. Promise!! __________________ Nothing scarier than a clown!! ----------------------------- 1 ClownFish 1 SixLine Wrasse 1 Foxface Rabbitfish Mushrooms Long Polyp Leather Green Anchor Coral Zoanthids Trumpet Coral Goniopora Current Tank Info: 360 litre (95 US Gallons), Tunze DOC Skimmer 9010, Lights: Metal Halide 250 Watt and 2x24 Watt Moon Lights, Tunze MultiController 7095

02/06/2009, 06:49 AM	#2
bkvreef Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 439	I couldn't agree with your sentiments more! I tell my wife that my time on this site is research because they don't make a Consumer Reports for saltwater tanks! No she doesn't buy. Nice post.

02/06/2009, 07:24 AM	#4
Whys Moved On Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 3,263	Always nice to see one of these. RC rocks.

02/06/2009, 07:25 AM	#5
Lemeshianos Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Limassol, Cyprus Posts: 468	How much do you sell your liver? Have you been drinking during your life or even been alcoholic? True, sometimes the cost is too much. I've been buying piece by piece for almost a year and haven't started yet. Hopefully by the summer I'll have everything I need.

02/06/2009, 09:08 AM	#6
tims28gnano Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Jones Beach Posts: 343	+1 fiona!! put some more pics in your gallery, show us your improvements! glad to hear the leather is better!