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

[Skull&Bones]

Hello fellow reefers,

My name is Ray. I just joined the RC forum as suggested from the Corvette Forum. They said I can get great information here! I've had freshwater tanks since I was a Kid and had a saltwater tank before. But this is my first reef tank and I love it! As a newbie I will lots of questions hope I will learn a lot from you guys and make new friends! :beer:

Tank Care, lol
Ray~

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hi, I'm Slice and I'm a reefaholic. I do not need any stinkin' 12 step plan, I need more Chaeto!
47G FOWLR, but only for another month or 2. Then it becomes a reef tank!
Started 5 1/2 months ago, 50-ish # RL, 40# LS.
3 Green Chromis, 1 Royal Gramma.
10+ Nassy, 2 turbo, 2 huge cerith, 2 huge astreia snails
3 peppermint shrimp, 2 emerald crabs (1 female that gave birth recently, 1 MONSTER male)

usual params
Ph 8.0+
Ammo 0
Trites 0
Trates 20 or less
79* constant

Tank is column style 20" wide, 18" deep and 30" Tall...PITA to work on.
Current USA Nova Extreme Pro 108w T5 (6 x 18w 18")
Koralia 1400 + Koralia 1050
AquaClear 70 -to be soon replaced with CPR Aquafuge II PS (HOB skimmer/refugium)

I've been active at another site, been lurking here.

[welcome]

I've never seen an emerald crab give birth, but I've the 2 locked in a mating embrace and seen my female open it's flap to eat the eggs. That was kind of cool to see. Only saw it once and never saw it again.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hello,

I'm Graeme and new to RC.
I live in Holland and got a 14 gallon nano aquarium.

I hope to find some more info about nano's here since they are not so common in the Netherlands

[welcome]

I lived in Germany in the Eifel just on the border and visited Holland quite a bit. We were there for 6 years and visited keukenhof during the tulips season twice. There's something about seeing fields of never ending tulips. And of course Amsterdam.....ahh.....those were good times too.


Back on subject. If you don't already know, RC has a Nano Forum to check out. Good luck with your nano.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hello fellow reefers,

My name is Ray. I just joined the RC forum as suggested from the Corvette Forum. They said I can get great information here! I've had freshwater tanks since I was a Kid and had a saltwater tank before. But this is my first reef tank and I love it! As a newbie I will lots of questions hope I will learn a lot from you guys and make new friends! :beer:

Tank Care, lol
Ray~

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Glad to have you here. Be sure to start a new thread documenting your new reef tank. where in Cali are you? if you're near Ventura, shoot me a PM

 

[izzy123]

Hello,

I'm Graeme and new to RC.
I live in Holland and got a 14 gallon nano aquarium.

I hope to find some more info about nano's here since they are not so common in the Netherlands

aha, ik zou zeggen: Hartelijk welkom....
Ik ben deze site al enige maanden aan het afschuimen en hij is FANTASTISCH!!

I just told him that RC is GREAT.....:reading:

 

[izzy123]

I just realised..... I never introduced myself on RC although I've been bothering the experts for months now...
So here goes: hello, my name is Ivan, and I live in Belgium.
I'm in the process of starting up my first reef tank, and I wanted to gather as much information as I can to prevent as much mistakes as possible.

So far this site is AMAZING and the people over here are truley helpfull
keep up the great work and THANK YOU for all the help i already recieved!

 

[Slice]

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I've never seen an emerald crab give birth, but I've the 2 locked in a mating embrace and seen my female open it's flap to eat the eggs. That was kind of cool to see. Only saw it once and never saw it again.

The wife and I didn't realise she was carrying larvae. We saw the 2 "embrace" several times and thought they were fighting, not..um..mating.

We would have never seen what happened if not for the chromis. They were acting strangely, swimming/hovering just over the rock instead of their normal top of the tank location.

We went over to see what the commotion was and saw the female up on a rock, fortunately in full view. Her flap was open, revealing a large jelly mass. About 2x/min, she would convulse and release a couple of dozen larvae.

The chromis thought it was candy and ate every one until about 20mins later, the lights timed out and the chromis went to bed.

The crab still had most of her cargo; we assume she continued to release larvae into the night. Its nice to imagine somewhere under the rock, there may be tiny crabs trying to make a living....

Thanks for the welcome!!

 

[oakes]

Good day all, I am Brian from Virginia and am about to start on my first SW Tank. Tank is going to be a 120gallon with a 75 gallon sump/refuge (still doing research on this to see what I need). Will be ordering my skimmer soon which will be the SWC Extreme 200. Then just need to get my stand and hood built!

 

[Skull&Bones]

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Glad to have you here. Be sure to start a new thread documenting your new reef tank. where in Cali are you? if you're near Ventura, shoot me a PM

Thanks Sisterlimonpot! I'm in the Bay Area just a little north of you. :thumbsup:

 

[ghstcowboy]

new to this

new to this

hi i'm Richard and i really am very green to this i have never in my life messed with reefs and stuff so all the pumps and stuff i'v been reading about i have no clue what does what or what light i need or anything like that

 

[Ticul]

New to RC. I have a 40 gallon tank that has been up for 8 months. I'm in Central California

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

I just realised..... I never introduced myself on RC although I've been bothering the experts for months now...
So here goes: hello, my name is Ivan, and I live in Belgium.
I'm in the process of starting up my first reef tank, and I wanted to gather as much information as I can to prevent as much mistakes as possible.

So far this site is AMAZING and the people over here are truley helpfull
keep up the great work and THANK YOU for all the help i already recieved!

[welcome]
Belgium, was a place we drove through to get to Amsterdam . No not really, Liège is a town that sticks out but I can't remember why....

All of us americans had to have that fine Belgium furniture, we bought a nice 3 piece curio cabinet from a town just over the border.

Anyway glad to have you here, If you have a build thread of your tank I'd be interested in following along. Send me a PM of it, or if you don't, please start one.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

The wife and I didn't realise she was carrying larvae. We saw the 2 "embrace" several times and thought they were fighting, not..um..mating.

We would have never seen what happened if not for the chromis. They were acting strangely, swimming/hovering just over the rock instead of their normal top of the tank location.

We went over to see what the commotion was and saw the female up on a rock, fortunately in full view. Her flap was open, revealing a large jelly mass. About 2x/min, she would convulse and release a couple of dozen larvae.

The chromis thought it was candy and ate every one until about 20mins later, the lights timed out and the chromis went to bed.

The crab still had most of her cargo; we assume she continued to release larvae into the night. Its nice to imagine somewhere under the rock, there may be tiny crabs trying to make a living....

Thanks for the welcome!!

I believe I read that the female crab can fertilize eggs for up to 2 years with one 'mating embrace'.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Good day all, I am Brian from Virginia and am about to start on my first SW Tank. Tank is going to be a 120gallon with a 75 gallon sump/refuge (still doing research on this to see what I need). Will be ordering my skimmer soon which will be the SWC Extreme 200. Then just need to get my stand and hood built!

[welcome]
Sounds like you have a plan of attack. be sure to start a thread when your ready to get your tank going. I'd like to follow along.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

hi i'm Richard and i really am very green to this i have never in my life messed with reefs and stuff so all the pumps and stuff i'v been reading about i have no clue what does what or what light i need or anything like that

[welcome]

Be sure to read through this thread. That should clear a lot up for you.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

New to RC. I have a 40 gallon tank that has been up for 8 months. I'm in Central California

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Be sure to start a new thread documenting your progress

 

[Rustyfunk]

'sup RC?

Im Russ, and Im based in Yorkshire, England.

Currently I run a D&D DX24, thats about 3 years old.

In the next couple of weeks im planning a bit of an upgrade to an Aqua Medic Chromis (55cm cube), largely so i can get fish that i can see. Might even start a tank thread!

My current stock are a red fire fish, green mandarin (yes, he eats frozen, and cultured pods) and a yasha haze/pistol shrimp combo, all of which generaly like hiding!

In there i also have an acan, duncan, branching hammer, toadstool, zoas, catalaphyllia, candy cane, and some gsps

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Hello RC. I am Wayne and I apparently joined this forum and never had any input or did anything really. I have been in the saltwater game since 1 June 2009. I originally started out with a 125 gallon and now upgraded to a 225 gallon setup.

 

[Kay Tickle]

I'm new to this. I'm setting up a 29g at home verrrrry slowly. I'm planning on a seahorse tank, so I am researching the heck out of it before I even get water. Should be drilling the tank tomorrow.

 

[Kamel]

Hey guys, this is my obligatory introduction post. I'm new to RC, but I've been a member of thereeftank for a while under the same alias. I hope to learn a lot and help out even more, I've already written many guides etc, so hope to contribute here as well.