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[Sisterlimonpot]

This is exactly the kind of information i am looking for, thank you!!

I wish I found this site when I started in on the hobby... I would have saved sooo much water!!!

 

[dryad001]

Hello all

Made a thread here

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hello all

Made a thread here

[welcome]
I'm going to check it out right now.

 

[zoahead]

hi

hi

hi guys ive been inthe hobby for 4yrs i have a 55g reef with 1mp20 vortech 1seio 620,phosban reactor ,euro reef rs100,100pds live rock,750gph main pump and 2 150w sunpod, im happy to be here with the family.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

hi guys ive been inthe hobby for 4yrs i have a 55g reef with 1mp20 vortech 1seio 620,phosban reactor ,euro reef rs100,100pds live rock,750gph main pump and 2 150w sunpod, im happy to be here with the family.

[welcome]
Thanks for sharing, be sure to start a new thread documenting your tank.

 

[dvenson]

new to the forum

new to the forum

Hi my name is Daniel. I have been keeping a saltwater tank for the past few years. I live in Denver and I am a member of MASC. I decided to join this site several months ago to get connected with local hobbyist. I found MASC and stuck with them. Today I was talking with a local hobbyist and reef central came up in our discussion. So here I am. My current setup consists of a 40 gallon breeder with a 20L sump. My lighting consist of 4 39 w T-5`s and 1 250 W MH 10k bulb. I have several acros a ton of zoas a mated pair of clown fish. I also have several acans and many more corals.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hi my name is Daniel. I have been keeping a saltwater tank for the past few years. I live in Denver and I am a member of MASC. I decided to join this site several months ago to get connected with local hobbyist. I found MASC and stuck with them. Today I was talking with a local hobbyist and reef central came up in our discussion. So here I am. My current setup consists of a 40 gallon breeder with a 20L sump. My lighting consist of 4 39 w T-5`s and 1 250 W MH 10k bulb. I have several acros a ton of zoas a mated pair of clown fish. I also have several acans and many more corals.

[welcome]
I am a member of masc, just moved from Cheyenne to here. A lot of great reefers in your area. Masc also has a club site on RC as well. Check it out

 

[chefb_5]

Hi I'm Brandon From MN and I have been doing salt water for 6 yrs and a reefing for 6 months. I have a 90 gallon with a 30 gallon sump and in that sump I have a Reef Octopus NW 200. For lights I have 4 T-5 retros and 1 1050 korilia and a 1400 the newist ones and a old # 3 korolia. Fish I have a koran angel, purple tang and 2 clown fish. Coral I have some Acans, montiporas, wave hands, cactus, yuma, palys, mushrooms and chaliaces.

 

[Amunet]

Completely new

Completely new

Hi, I'm completely new to SW tanks and have been studying last few weeks and am starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. Haven't bought a tank or anything yet because I want to know exactly what I'm getting and where I'm going to put it, etc. Does anyone recommend a good starting tank size? I want a strictly coral/anemone tank with possibly a few fish in it in the future and living area isn't an issue but I also don't want a monster. Column tanks look cool and building a reef up the middle sounds like something I wanna do, although I imagine cleaning is difficult... Well, any ideas/advice/etc I'm all ears!

 

[wolfish_one]

Hi, I'm Jason from Jefferson, Ohio. I'm new to the salt aquarium experience. My friends gave me a 55 gallon tank and set up. I'm still in the starter stage, no fish yet, but the huge piece of coral is starting to sprout new life. I check it a couple times a day, okay I might be a little over excited lol, but I can't wait to get it up and running.

 

[laoyuebing]

Hello everybody, I'm from China, Shijiazhuang, I just came into contact with salt water reef, my English is not good, I use Google's translation, I hope here to meet friends and learn. My tank is 1m,.

 

[Alunai]

Hello everyone.

My name is Ashley, you can call me Alunai. I'm a 20 year old hairstylist from Minnesota who has fallen madly in love with saltwater fish. I started in this hobby last April. Currently I am running two tanks, a 29 Gallon FOWLR with two ocellaris, and a 15 Gallon nano reef with one ocellaris. I'm a very open minded person, I won't bite anyone's head off or start drama. I'm a big dreamer, and optimistic to a fault sometimes. Occasionally I will need to be brought back down to earth. But please, do it gently?

I have started a post Here

 

[Uncle Gilbert]

Hello all

Hello all

Hello my name is Jim
I was a member here a while ago and its nice to be back.The site has changed a bit.
I have been Saltwatering for 35 years.
For the last 5 years i let my 13 year old 200 gal FOLR go natural as i had a fire in and on the tank and the fireman hosed the tank and sumps with dry chemical fire extinguishers.My wave maker (wont mention make) shorted internally igniting the pump wires burning into the tank , it was ugly.ALL of my fish survived they were senior citizens of the tank ,i moved them to a friends tank and never took them back.Clean up was a night mare everything incrusted in Dry Chemical.
Now im starting again after letting the tank run like a swamp for 5 years with only inverts.
I actually have a 13 year old banded coral shrimp and 2 serpentine star fish.
Everyday is a new learning experience in this hobby.
Its fun and expensive to be back.

Regards to all.
Jim

 

[soreefobssesed]

Hello all, I am very new to reef tanks, just 6 mths. I currently have a 125 gallon African Cichlid tank which I had for 2 years but have been doing fish for about 12 years. My husband and I decided I needed a hobby and the reef tank has proven to be the one. I have a 72 gallon bow front with 100 pds of live rock, about 2 inches of live sand, 1 hairy mushroom, 1 leather toadstool, 1 kenya tree, 1 frogspawn, some zoas, some button polyps, 1 yellow eyed tang, 1 sixline wrasse, 1 pygmy angel, 1 flame hawk, 1 watchman goby with a mate, 2 conchs, 1 peppermint shrimp, blue legged and red legged hermit crabs and a few snails and a bunch of baby snails. I have a sump with a marineland 100 skimmer, a wavemaker and two koralla evolution powerheads (is that what they are called) and metal halid lights with moon beams and the actinic lights. This hobby takes a whole lot of time and I still am scratching my head wondering why why did I do this. But I love it and I would love LOTS of advise about ANYTHING

 

[coyex_2003]

coral growth how long

coral growth how long

My name is coyex, less than a year in the hobby. my setup is 80 gal Display
tank. i'm using Bubble magus nac7 skimmer. I have 12 gal refugium. I put my corals 2 months ago and the LFS told me that in three weeks i can see growth in my coral, but it is not happening, do you know how long it will take for the corals to grow (the easy coral)

 

[The_Chad]

Introductions

Introductions

Hello I'm Chad,
Obviously I am new to the hobby/addiction. About 7 months ago i tried to just read a few books and buy a 75g tank w/ 35g sump and all this expensive top of the line equipment. Little to my surprise it was a failure, first ich then phyto bloom then cyano bloom. 150 dollars in fish and now just a 20g and a porcupine pufferfish, I am still trucking but I have learned the greatest resource of all, the common hobbyist/addict. So here i am saying "Hello" and HELP ME!"

Thanks for anything and everything you have or will do to help me enjoy this wonderful hobby/addiction.

Chad

 

[jok3rqnk]

hey guys i can say that this site is the best i ever know.
y recently started up a 55g reef tank
i curently have
a pair of true percula clonws
a baby hipo tang
a yellow tang
a naso tang

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hi I'm Brandon From MN and I have been doing salt water for 6 yrs and a reefing for 6 months. I have a 90 gallon with a 30 gallon sump and in that sump I have a Reef Octopus NW 200. For lights I have 4 T-5 retros and 1 1050 korilia and a 1400 the newist ones and a old # 3 korolia. Fish I have a koran angel, purple tang and 2 clown fish. Coral I have some Acans, montiporas, wave hands, cactus, yuma, palys, mushrooms and chaliaces.

[welcome]

Seems like you already have a grasp on the hobby. Be sure to start a new thread with pics of your tank.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hi, I'm completely new to SW tanks and have been studying last few weeks and am starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. Haven't bought a tank or anything yet because I want to know exactly what I'm getting and where I'm going to put it, etc. Does anyone recommend a good starting tank size? I want a strictly coral/anemone tank with possibly a few fish in it in the future and living area isn't an issue but I also don't want a monster. Column tanks look cool and building a reef up the middle sounds like something I wanna do, although I imagine cleaning is difficult... Well, any ideas/advice/etc I'm all ears!

[welcome]

I would suggest a 75 gallon with a 20 gallon sump,refugium. That size will give you a well rounded reef, not too big that it is going to be a pain to maintain but not too small that when something goes out of whack it isn't going to pollute your tank and kill everything (it'll give you enough time to react).

If you're going to go the route of corals I wouldn't recommend a very tall column tank, corals need light to survive and to get enough PAR down to the bottom of the tank is going to be a challenge not to mention (like you said) the cleaning aspect.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Hi, I'm Jason from Jefferson, Ohio. I'm new to the salt aquarium experience. My friends gave me a 55 gallon tank and set up. I'm still in the starter stage, no fish yet, but the huge piece of coral is starting to sprout new life. I check it a couple times a day, okay I might be a little over excited lol, but I can't wait to get it up and running.

[welcome]

Be sure to start a new thread documenting your experience.