rivahodges
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Hello all. Been in the hobby for years and just caught the big tank bug. I have just set up a 280g mixed reef with 55g sump and 100g rubbermaid with DSB and live rock. I got a lot of ideas from RC and finally decided to join.
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Mr.Tan
New member
Just wanted to finally introduce myself.. Names Corey, been working with different tanks for about the past 10 years. Started off in freshwater, moved to salt and then took about a 8 year break... Then about 2 years ago i picked up a 29 gallon freshwater tank kit from the LFS and got the bug again. Been over 2 weeks now since i converted to salt and so far so good!
szwab
Premium Member
Those forums will be accessible once you have been a member for 90 days and have contributed 50 meaningful posts.
Ahlberg
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Brand new to this site and to salt water in general. I have totally become immersed in the hobby and this site as been a GREAT help.
Q: Longnose hawkfish too aggressive for a small reef tank?
29 G Biocube, 25lbs live rock.
2 Occ clowns
1 Algae eating blennie
1 emerald crab
2 scarlet hermits
2 dwarf red hermits
1 electric blue hermit
2 astria snails
2 margarita snails
1 mexican turbo
1 small black turbo
1 nassarius
2 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
Q: Longnose hawkfish too aggressive for a small reef tank?
29 G Biocube, 25lbs live rock.
2 Occ clowns
1 Algae eating blennie
1 emerald crab
2 scarlet hermits
2 dwarf red hermits
1 electric blue hermit
2 astria snails
2 margarita snails
1 mexican turbo
1 small black turbo
1 nassarius
2 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
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Just starting out.
Just starting out.
Hello. I just purchased my first tank. Its a 36 gallon bow front. My boyfriend is helping me out with all the technical stuff. We are starting it off with just live rocks. Then gradually getting fish once we have it running right. Are there any sites that are recommended for what fish are able to housed together? Thanks.
Just starting out.
Hello. I just purchased my first tank. Its a 36 gallon bow front. My boyfriend is helping me out with all the technical stuff. We are starting it off with just live rocks. Then gradually getting fish once we have it running right. Are there any sites that are recommended for what fish are able to housed together? Thanks.
I hope my noob questions don't aggravate you guys too much.
CinciReefer
New member
Cincinnati Reefer is on board!
Cincinnati Reefer is on board!
Hello, I am new to saltwater and have been cruising this site and soaking up information for a while now. I thought I should drop in here and introduce myself.
I've been keeping freshwater fish for about 3 or 4 years now and I've decided to finally take my 210 gallon tank and turn it into the saltwater reef tank I bought it to be nearly 2 years ago! :beer:
I plan to utilize a deep sand bed, LED lighting, algae filtration, kalkwasser, an apex controller, uv sterilizer, and a few other methods of filtration/water conditioning.
In closing I want to thank everyone that contributes to this site. I've learned so much over the last year reading on here and doing my research that I finally feel prepared to operate a successful reef system. To give back I've decided to make a video documentary of sorts on YouTube. At the current time I've added 2 videos so far and I'm about to upload my 3rd.
Thank you all!
Cincinnati Reefer
Cincinnati Reefer is on board!
Hello, I am new to saltwater and have been cruising this site and soaking up information for a while now. I thought I should drop in here and introduce myself.
I've been keeping freshwater fish for about 3 or 4 years now and I've decided to finally take my 210 gallon tank and turn it into the saltwater reef tank I bought it to be nearly 2 years ago! :beer:
I plan to utilize a deep sand bed, LED lighting, algae filtration, kalkwasser, an apex controller, uv sterilizer, and a few other methods of filtration/water conditioning.
In closing I want to thank everyone that contributes to this site. I've learned so much over the last year reading on here and doing my research that I finally feel prepared to operate a successful reef system. To give back I've decided to make a video documentary of sorts on YouTube. At the current time I've added 2 videos so far and I'm about to upload my 3rd.
Thank you all!
Cincinnati Reefer
lighting.
lighting.
Hi to you all i have a 48x15x18 tall tank but i need help with the lighting sittuation. i do wanto have a soft coral tank for now.i have a single IQ 150 watt 14 k mh and 2 40 watt 03 flourecent. any addvised on how high the metal h hang from water level i thank you in advance.
lighting.
Hi to you all i have a 48x15x18 tall tank but i need help with the lighting sittuation. i do wanto have a soft coral tank for now.i have a single IQ 150 watt 14 k mh and 2 40 watt 03 flourecent. any addvised on how high the metal h hang from water level i thank you in advance.
:spin2:Hello everyone my name is Jamal2000. And I 'am new to reef central. My first reef tank was a 20gal fish only,then to 65gal reef:soft corals and some mushrooms. Now I'am trying my luck with 180gal reef,it has build in overflow box's. Looking for good P-skimmer for around 300 to 500 dollar's?
Rockys_Pride
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Hello jamal! I got an AquaC EV180 with your name all over it if you want. Pm me.
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karavak
karavak
Finally introducing myself.
Name is Brian and I'm located in Columbia, MD. Have been lurking kind of on the board since I got started back in 2009 and just recently started getting more active.
Since I got started I went from a 40g, to a 65g, to a 120g. From "I don't think I will have corals since they sound so hard to take care of" to "hmm.. how many Trachyphlliidae can be in the same tank". From single strip fluorescent to phoenix 14k 250w. It's been fun. And I have a storage room with all the old equipment.. it adds up.
My reef tank has become my little zen garden as I clean it, argue with the RBTA's that move to sit on the latest frags, and plucking the tomato clown in the head when he comes trying to nip at me as I clean.
Despite all my growth in the hobby I still have a ton to learn and will lose a coral frag that I thought was doing well and will recover a frag that I thought was pretty much dead. In the past few months I've turned more to understanding the chemistry of my tank as I work with Kalk and Mag to bring things into place.
I have also learned that no matter how much I read about things.. that sometimes my tank is just going to be a little different for some reason or I just don't understand the "Why".
I am trying to get to the point where I stop messing with the tank.. in the past few months I have been move PH's around to see about improving flow, pulling out some rocks, breaking up a few colonies, adding a few frags. I want to let the tank grow and settle in but it's so hard to keep my hands out!
My current set up is 120 dual overflow through a wall to a 40g sump of live rock and skimmer. I have a lot of live rock.. a bit too much but I'm resisting the urge to re-aqua-scape everything right now... Must... Resist....
For flow Mag 7 and 2 koralia 4, 2 Evolution 1400, and 1 Koralia 3. I'm tempted to say either I have too much flow or haven't figured out how to use the flow the best way.. but things seem pretty happy. I have a 30g rubbermaid can for the Tzune ATO w/ Kalk.
In the last few weeks I have raised my 2 250w 14k phoenix + 2 T5HO actinic lights fixture up to about 18" inches above the water line and everything in the tank seems much happier.. even the clam that has decided to camp out in the middle of a zoa colony.
Livestock: I am trying to figure out if I want to add any more fish.. luckily I'm good a resisting impulse buys on fish.. not so much on corals
Corals: Most are just past the frag stage but not yet a decent size colony.. (Except for the Monti's) but they are getting there
Current projects:
karavak
Finally introducing myself.
Name is Brian and I'm located in Columbia, MD. Have been lurking kind of on the board since I got started back in 2009 and just recently started getting more active.
Since I got started I went from a 40g, to a 65g, to a 120g. From "I don't think I will have corals since they sound so hard to take care of" to "hmm.. how many Trachyphlliidae can be in the same tank". From single strip fluorescent to phoenix 14k 250w. It's been fun. And I have a storage room with all the old equipment.. it adds up.
My reef tank has become my little zen garden as I clean it, argue with the RBTA's that move to sit on the latest frags, and plucking the tomato clown in the head when he comes trying to nip at me as I clean.
Despite all my growth in the hobby I still have a ton to learn and will lose a coral frag that I thought was doing well and will recover a frag that I thought was pretty much dead. In the past few months I've turned more to understanding the chemistry of my tank as I work with Kalk and Mag to bring things into place.
I have also learned that no matter how much I read about things.. that sometimes my tank is just going to be a little different for some reason or I just don't understand the "Why".
I am trying to get to the point where I stop messing with the tank.. in the past few months I have been move PH's around to see about improving flow, pulling out some rocks, breaking up a few colonies, adding a few frags. I want to let the tank grow and settle in but it's so hard to keep my hands out!
My current set up is 120 dual overflow through a wall to a 40g sump of live rock and skimmer. I have a lot of live rock.. a bit too much but I'm resisting the urge to re-aqua-scape everything right now... Must... Resist....
For flow Mag 7 and 2 koralia 4, 2 Evolution 1400, and 1 Koralia 3. I'm tempted to say either I have too much flow or haven't figured out how to use the flow the best way.. but things seem pretty happy. I have a 30g rubbermaid can for the Tzune ATO w/ Kalk.
In the last few weeks I have raised my 2 250w 14k phoenix + 2 T5HO actinic lights fixture up to about 18" inches above the water line and everything in the tank seems much happier.. even the clam that has decided to camp out in the middle of a zoa colony.
Livestock: I am trying to figure out if I want to add any more fish.. luckily I'm good a resisting impulse buys on fish.. not so much on corals
- 1 Yellow tang
- 2 damsel (one blue devil, one stripped)
- 2 tomato clowns
- 1 coral beauty
- 1 algae benny
- 2 banggai cardinalfish
- 1 yellow watchman goby (hiding at the back of the tank for now)
- 2 fire shrimp
- 2 skunk cleaner shrimp
- 2 serpent stars
- 1 Crocea Clam
- 7 RBTA's
- Mix of snails.. just ordered a restock
- about a dozen blue legged hermits.. and one big red one.. I thought it was a scarlet but didn't think they got that big.. seems pretty harmless
- bristleworms and the normal expected hitchhikers
Corals: Most are just past the frag stage but not yet a decent size colony.. (Except for the Monti's) but they are getting there
- ORA red planet
- Purple Milli
- Sunrise Mille
- Purple Slimer
- green Stylophora
- Purple Table acropora
- Acanthastrea Lordhowensis (red center, pale outside.. bleached I think but recovering)
- Blastomussa Merletti
- Ice Fire War FaviaCoral
- Trachyphlliidae (green center, red outside.. though pale red. might have been too much light but expands well)
- Trachyphlliidae (red/green mix.. bleached but recovering. Tucked under a shelf Expanding with very light color. Takes food at night)
- Green/Red favia
- Big frogspawn
- a Frag of the big frogspawn
- Green Monti cap
- Orange Monti cap
- Orange Chalice
- Grey w/pink eyes Chalice
- Kenya Tree's (might remove them at some point)
- Toadstool (just found him after he got knocked over a few months ago.. recovering)
- A few green mushrooms
- Several groups Zoa's and palys (I have no idea on the different names.)
Current projects:
- Set up a quicker/easier way of doing water changes.. about half way there.
- Get Alk up just a little bit higher.
- Recover the Trachyphlliidae and the color in the Acan
- Get Apex Controller
Polaris3
New member
Just stopped by to say hello. I just got a 150 gal tank and am ready to dive into this hobby of reef keeping. i would like to start off with the essential equipment that I am going to require to get started. Then we can get into the nice to have stuff.
I see there are lots of helpful and knowledgable people here and I look forward to learning as much as I can.
Thank you.
I see there are lots of helpful and knowledgable people here and I look forward to learning as much as I can.
Thank you.
Hello I'm Bobby. I have two tanks, a nice 5 gallon Pico tank I picked up really cheap that I couldn't pass up and a 56 gallon reef ready with that was a room divider tank so the over flow is on one side but my boss gave it to me so I can't complain. The 5 gallon tank has two snails, four hermits a yellow tail damsil, a big coral banded shrimp and some brown button pulips. I have a old school whisper hob 5-10 with a bunch of live rock rubble and the Bio foam filter, cleaning and moving the water. Though I thinking of added a little macro algae in there and drilling holes in the cover and putting led lights threw the holes to make a mini fuge. The 56 gallon is epmty for now though I heavily modified it since it was giving to me. Ill list the changes later. The 5 gallon I'm going to let run for a few months and let things grow so i can use some sand and rock out of it to seed the bigger tank. I got the 5 gallon fully stocked with everything in it . Though to move it I had to tank out most of the rock (almost all 15 pounds worth)and half the water. I rearranged the rocks the way I think they look best with all the pretty purple , green, red coraline algae showing. Its been a week now and see all sorts of new things growing. We had to remove the bottom pulips from the rock when moving the rock but were the were before there is slither stalk growing already. The colony only had eight pulips a week ago and now has ten. I have four very pretty orange feather dusters growing on the base rocks in different spots. On one rock there are five to six feather dusters of different colors. Some white and gray, some brown, or at least I hope they are feather dusters lol. I noticed to on a rock the was at the bottom before and now on top has a very white looking thing growing on it. A sponge maybe. Its soft to the touch, with have to see how it evolves. The shrimp is very lively. The other Guy fed him peices of dried blood worms on the end of a wood skewer. Boy does he goes nuts when he sees that skewer in the water amd you can feel him tug on it. Well anytime that food touched the water the hole tank goes nuts even the two scarlet hermits that I only see at night come running out to feed. I did change the lighting set up. The Guy used the tank as a open top with a movable lamp for lighting. I am useing the hood that came with the tank with a 26w white and blue florencent coral bulb. Though the first day the tank temp went up three degrees so after the first day I modified it. I drilled several holes at one end and added a two inch 12 volt blower from a rear projection TV to remove the heat. Since I had to add the 12 volt power source I added a white moon light with a home made dimmer from a 50k ajustable resister I glue a plastic tube to and put it threw a hole in the hood. Now have dimming moon lights. I also added a few UV leds that peak at about 405 NM though it might be two low might have to change them to blue leds that peak at 460 NM. But the new growth could be from the purple lights. Not sure yet. Time will tell. The Guy said he never changed the water in the tank due to the size just topped it off. I have to add about a 1/2 to a full cup a day to keep the salinity at .1025 . I tried to post pics but for some odd reason it said upload failed. Oh well
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mexiconyeric
New member
Hello Everybody I'm Eric. I am new have had fresh in the past and still do. I have decided to try salt. I have two large tanks a 150 and a 125 and I plan on connecting the whole system since I have a whole room I have dedicated to this. I am still trying to learn but I am looking at fowlr in the 150 but I don't have anything set in stone. I am in the central new york area so if anyone is in the area and you have some good information please share. One thing I do know is I am taking it slow.
Kerreefer
In Memoriam
aha! after posting a few things and whatnot i found this thread. sorry i did things a tad backwards lol. well, here it goes: My name is James. i live in a small town outside of san antonio texas. For the past 10 years or so i been really in to saltwater esp. reefs. Prior of course, Freshwater. gone from a simple 55gallon to a 125. now have a 180 deep. gone through more diy sumps than i can count, made more mistakes than i care to Tell, and learned way more about this hobby than i thought was immaginable! i love corals... ok Australian Corals now! ive gotten rid of just about everything in my tank to stay primarilly with those. done bare bottom, DSB, protien skimmers only, bio balls (uggg), omg... refugiums! now ive gotten all the hype out of the commercial sales end of this hobby and run 2 protien skimmers (octos.), 200 micron filter bag, and LR with a 1inch'ish SB. i do 30 gallon WC's every 30-60 days, and all i check now is salinity upon WC's. i Do though use the pos apogee par meter just to keep in sink with how my t5's are doing for replacement. i run dual photoperiods per 24hrs. and have a 40 gallon corner dips. tank for the wife and her fox and goniopora (ug), but hay she's happy! i prolly log in about 5 hours a day into my tank just thinking, playing around, feeding, etc. I completely hooked and the more i learn the more hooked on this hobby i Get! so there's the shpeel. and Hello everyone!
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