Getting to know Tucson reefers

[sillygoose]

Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear about your mandarin. Was your tank well-established when you got him?

 

[vwcarter]

my mandarin story is kinda funny i actually got him when my original 10 gallon was only like 2 months old and i made every single mistake a new reefer could possibly make, and he lived thru it all. he ate brine shrimp and mysis like it was candy. tuesday morning i got up and when i turned on the light for his tank the purple pysdochromis which was one of his tank mates was dead stiff and he was floating with one eye out of the water being pushed by the the water current but still breatheing. i put him in a nursery box in my 24 gallon, now whats weird is i tested the water and every thing was in near perfect and the engineer goby in the tank is still alive

 

[sillygoose]

Hmmm. Has anyone in your household used any cleaning products or solvent-based compounds near the tank? If you haven't already, I'd do a pretty good water change. Even if your chemistry looks good, there are so many things we can't test for. A water change will dilute any bad stuff and replenish good stuff. (Sorry if this is obvious but I don't know how long you've kept saltwater.)

BTW, I couldn't find my mandarin last night. He was in the overflow. So midnight last night, my husband and I were fishing him out. He seems a bit subdued but not too much worse for the wear...

 

[oneate7]

Hey all, I'm Marc. I'm down in Sierra Vista so I get the pleasure of driving 70 miles every other weekend to feed my habit .

Tank is a one year old RSM 130D

Everything in the tank is doing well, but not as well as I would like . That Monti nearly bit it, but it seems to be coming back from the brink!

 

[fishaholic911]

Nice looking tank you got there

 

[vwcarter]

nope standing rules in my house you dont do anything to my tanks unless told otherwise

mabey my engineer goby kicked up the wrong pile of sand or something

 

[aquaph8]

Bump for anybody new or anybody that wa nts to update. Keep the pics coming Tucson.

 

[phenom5]

Wow, lots of great tanks hanging around the Old Pueblo.

I suppose I should post mine here...

 

[Skinner]

My name is Mike and I just moved to Tucson approximately two years ago and set up my 75 gal a little over a year ago. I bought my stand and light unit (4bulb T5) from a local reefer. I've met a few people on this forum when purchasing frags and everyone has been extremely friendly and helpful. There are some beautiful tanks here locally. For fish I currently have a CBB, bristletooth blenny, tomato clown, sleeper goby, and a single chromis that has survived from the beginning. Most of my corals I've bought are from people on this forum. I currently have blue clove polyps, kenya tree, various mushrooms and ricordea, a RBTA that has since split (thanks Gary), frogspawn, trumpets, various zoas, GSP, green slimer acropora and thats about it. I'll try to post some pics if I get a chance.

 

[sillygoose]

Here is our current 90 gallon. The pictures are not great but hopefully they'll look OK.

 

[sillygoose]

A couple more...

 

[sillygoose]

The focus and the colors are much better in person.

 

[Skinner]

Full Tank Shot

 

[phenom5]

The focus...much better in person.

That depends if I have m contacts in or not...if not, it may not be any better in person.

 

[Juston]

Introductions

Introductions

Hey Guys and Girls,

Long time stalker, first time poster. I wanted to say hi and come out of the closet.

My name is Juston, and I am a reefaholic. I have had many Fresh water tanks, but recently jumped into the saltwater side. So much more satisfying. My girlfriend and I just bought a 100 gallon with a 30 gallon sump. Currently we just finished cycling the live rock, other then a diatom bloom which makes the tank ever so exciting, there isn't much inside yet. Dying to put more in now, but have been put on a budget freeze by the woman who wears the pants. :headwalls:

Here is the current setup.

Hope to meet you guys and add something like cool frags to the community soon.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/juston42/Optimized-DSC_3181.jpg

 

[forrestcook]

Juston - when you're ready for corals let me know... I've got something to gift you and welcome you to the community!

My name is Forrest... creative user name, I know. I started out with freshwater planted tanks about 5 years ago and I've had the reef tank set up for about a year and a half now. My tank is a 40 breeder which is packed pretty full.

I'm looking to add a 28 gallon nano cube to the mix and make it a macro tank. I'm thinking a couple sea horses and pipe fish... maybe some cool gorogonians or something...

 

[aquaph8]

Nice job Tucson, some really nice tanks. Thanks to all the new people for jumping in there and joining in. Whens the frag auction coming again?

 

[Triple One]

Tucson's Responsible Reefers

Tucson's Responsible Reefers

I am psyched that this thread exists! :celeb1: And I think we need a local reef club! I'll spare you the list of possible names, for now...

So yeah... at least a +10 to aquaph8 for firing this one up. And kudos to all of the sexy shots you other reefers have posted (fishaholic and scubabum, you guys rock).

Hi, My Name Is Alex and I'm an Aquarium Addict... I've had numerous freshwater systems over the last 15 years or so, but I recently bought a house and inherited a 3-year-old 105G that was badly in need of some TLC. I have since designed and built a super-spiffy sump out of a 40G breeder tank I found on craigslist for $30. The new sump has basically turned the tank around, and if somebody out there has some excess Chaeto, Ochtodes, or Dictyota that they want to trade, I'm hoping to get a nice little macroalgae farm going in my newly expanded refugium. Also, I am planning on building a simple phytoplankton culture system, and will happily pay it forward to future moochy noobs :wavehand: if anyone can help me out with a starter culture...

My reef tank's lights are off now so I'll have to leave this post a cliffhanger as far as a picture goes, but I'll get one put up here soon...

I think it would be cool to use this thread to start a group. I know there are a few clubs around that meet physically (like the Desert Aquarist Society for example) and that's all well and good, but Reef Central is more specifically geared towards reefers and salt wallowers (plus it's free...), so let's take full advantage of it and do more than one frag swap per year!

And seriously, anybody got any spare phytoplankton or macroalgae? Let's party!

 

[brettinteriors]

My name is Josh. I have owned a salwater tank for about 4 years. Current tank is a 140 gallon half round mixed reef with diy sump and is about six months running although the rock and sand are from mature systems. I really enjoy the hobby and always consider it a work in progress.

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[fishaholic911]

I am psyched that this thread exists! :celeb1: And I think we need a local reef club! I'll spare you the list of possible names, for now...

So yeah... at least a +10 to aquaph8 for firing this one up. And kudos to all of the sexy shots you other reefers have posted (fishaholic and scubabum, you guys rock).

Hi, My Name Is Alex and I'm an Aquarium Addict... I've had numerous freshwater systems over the last 15 years or so, but I recently bought a house and inherited a 3-year-old 105G that was badly in need of some TLC. I have since designed and built a super-spiffy sump out of a 40G breeder tank I found on craigslist for $30. The new sump has basically turned the tank around, and if somebody out there has some excess Chaeto, Ochtodes, or Dictyota that they want to trade, I'm hoping to get a nice little macroalgae farm going in my newly expanded refugium. Also, I am planning on building a simple phytoplankton culture system, and will happily pay it forward to future moochy noobs :wavehand: if anyone can help me out with a starter culture...

My reef tank's lights are off now so I'll have to leave this post a cliffhanger as far as a picture goes, but I'll get one put up here soon...

I think it would be cool to use this thread to start a group. I know there are a few clubs around that meet physically (like the Desert Aquarist Society for example) and that's all well and good, but Reef Central is more specifically geared towards reefers and salt wallowers (plus it's free...), so let's take full advantage of it and do more than one frag swap per year!

And seriously, anybody got any spare phytoplankton or macroalgae? Let's party!

Welcome and thanks for the PROPS :wave: