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[teapua]

got a glass 55(tiny leaks on front seals) w/ stand(pine); overflow box with siphon; lots of pool hoses; small manufactur acrylic sump w/bio,return pump and sponges for 150$ from a friends garage..

I ordered currentUSA outer orbit hqi/t5 lighting system, deltec AP600 protien skim, hydor koralia 2 and 3, two 150 heaters and a fish net.

also going to attempt to drill holes in the back to try and copy - Silent and Failsafe Overflow System.

maybe i can post pictures of some of the items that already have implemented??? not sure where to post them - but that's me in a shell - hope you're swell!

 

[Poeticlydead]

this is the second time I have typed this all out first time hit submit and the site decided I wasn't logged in

Umm saying hello in a forum post just seems strange to me so I'll jump right in.

I recently (1.5 months) aquired a 90 gallon aquarium that I have all ready set up.
Equipment:
90 gallon glass tank
20L gallon DIY sump
Coralite protein skimmer
Mag 7 return pump
Koralia (1200 GPH) prop type circulation pump
Maxijet 600 (stand in for now)
Roughly 100 lbs of live rock
3 inch bed of aragonite reef sand
6 bulb T5 Nova extreme (3 actinic, 3 54 watt 10k whites)
I did all the plumbing my self including a 1" pvc over flow and 2 3/4" supplys fed by 1/2 id cpvc.

Stock:
2 clown fish
1 goby
2 hermits (had a couple more)
2 Turbo snails
4 Astraea snails

1 small frogspawn
1 ultra small (5 heads) green button polyp frag
1 star polyp colony
1 Rhodactis colony
1 Blue mushroom colony

Also the typical additions that come in with the live rock (sponges etc..) oh and Chaeto in the refugium.

Well I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions as I go and hope to be a usefull addition to the forums before to long.

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15257014#post15257014 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dawaterboy
After getting an old fw tank going for my girlfriend I got sucked into the hobby. Her tank is still up and running and I have since purched a 46g bowfront. I started off with brackish puffers but found that the options for these tanks are pretty limited. I have since got rid of the puffers and have gone full salt. The tank has been running for nearly a month at the higher sg and is doing pretty good as far as I can tell. I added about 25-30 pounds of lr to my 40-50 pounds of br. The sand bed is now full of life and the hermits are doing what they do all day and night. I have also purchesed a lawnmower blenny and some turbo snails to complete the first team of a growing cuc. I will be moving the tank next week to a better location and will be slowly adding fish and soft corals as soon as things balance back out.

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IMO its time to start a build thread here and post some pictures of your progress

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15259290#post15259290 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by teapua
got a glass 55(tiny leaks on front seals) w/ stand(pine); overflow box with siphon; lots of pool hoses; small manufactur acrylic sump w/bio,return pump and sponges for 150$ from a friends garage..

I ordered currentUSA outer orbit hqi/t5 lighting system, deltec AP600 protien skim, hydor koralia 2 and 3, two 150 heaters and a fish net.

also going to attempt to drill holes in the back to try and copy - Silent and Failsafe Overflow System.

maybe i can post pictures of some of the items that already have implemented??? not sure where to post them - but that's me in a shell - hope you're swell!

Start your own thread in this forum--call it teapua's build thread as a suggestion.

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[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15259347#post15259347 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Poeticlydead
this is the second time I have typed this all out first time hit submit and the site decided I wasn't logged in

Umm saying hello in a forum post just seems strange to me so I'll jump right in.

I recently (1.5 months) aquired a 90 gallon aquarium that I have all ready set up.
Equipment:
90 gallon glass tank
20L gallon DIY sump
Coralite protein skimmer
Mag 7 return pump
Koralia (1200 GPH) prop type circulation pump
Maxijet 600 (stand in for now)
Roughly 100 lbs of live rock
3 inch bed of aragonite reef sand
6 bulb T5 Nova extreme (3 actinic, 3 54 watt 10k whites)
I did all the plumbing my self including a 1" pvc over flow and 2 3/4" supplys fed by 1/2 id cpvc.

Stock:
2 clown fish
1 goby
2 hermits (had a couple more)
2 Turbo snails
4 Astraea snails

1 small frogspawn
1 ultra small (5 heads) green button polyp frag
1 star polyp colony
1 Rhodactis colony
1 Blue mushroom colony

Also the typical additions that come in with the live rock (sponges etc..) oh and Chaeto in the refugium.

Well I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions as I go and hope to be a usefull addition to the forums before to long.

You are well on your way--time to start a build thread and post some pictures of your tank.

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[luvmylo]

Hey guys I have been semi lurking here for a couple of years now and decided to start posting. I have been in the hobby since 2003 and love every part of it. The system I have now was put together on a really tight budget but it's working well and has been up for six months now.

System
150 gallon glass (60 x 24 x 24)
2 x 25 gallon sumps tied together(used from smaller systems)
2 skimmers (1 coralife 125 and a pci pc2000)
2 return pumps 500 gph each (1 running through 1/3 hp chiller)
2 x 400 mh with sps 14k bulbs (love the spectrum and my corals do too)
Lifereef Calcium Reactor
3 x korali 4 ph and 1 x seio 1100 (still not enough)
100 lbs lr
various fish but my babies are my Leutenant tang and purple tang
Several sps corals but my favs are my ora purple plate and ora red planet
couple lps corals including an elegance

any other questions, just ask

 

[jfinn2008]

hello i am new to the forum and new to the world of reef tanks. I am just starting a 180 gal. reef tank so far i have some inverts, fish and my first coral a frogspawn as well as some frags. Planning to take it slow and learn as I go I look forward to communicatiing in the forums.

 

[fishcube 3.0]

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Hi I'm Roy, from the Philippines. I'm fairly new to the hobby of reefkeeping. But I have some experience keeping marine fishes. I have a 75 gal reef tank with a 40 gal sump using plastic storage bins. It has a 250 gal cap protein skimmer, a 2200 li/hr return pump. I use 2 1200 L/hr circulation pump in the display tank. I presently have a kenya tree, couple of Gonioporas, an ancora sp., a small frogspawn coral, an orange and green zooanthids,and several discosomas. As for the fishes; I only have a foxface, a firefish, a small nisso tang, and a pair of spawning dragonets. Whew...

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15259504#post15259504 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by luvmylo
Hey guys I have been semi lurking here for a couple of years now and decided to start posting. I have been in the hobby since 2003 and love every part of it. The system I have now was put together on a really tight budget but it's working well and has been up for six months now.

System
150 gallon glass (60 x 24 x 24)
2 x 25 gallon sumps tied together(used from smaller systems)
2 skimmers (1 coralife 125 and a pci pc2000)
2 return pumps 500 gph each (1 running through 1/3 hp chiller)
2 x 400 mh with sps 14k bulbs (love the spectrum and my corals do too)
Lifereef Calcium Reactor
3 x korali 4 ph and 1 x seio 1100 (still not enough)
100 lbs lr
various fish but my babies are my Leutenant tang and purple tang
Several sps corals but my favs are my ora purple plate and ora red planet
couple lps corals including an elegance

any other questions, just ask

I am glad you started to post--you definetly have some excellent experience to share. How about posting some pics of your system?

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[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15262089#post15262089 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jfinn2008
hello i am new to the forum and new to the world of reef tanks. I am just starting a 180 gal. reef tank so far i have some inverts, fish and my first coral a frogspawn as well as some frags. Planning to take it slow and learn as I go I look forward to communicatiing in the forums.

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That is a great size of tank to start with. what fish are you intending to keep?

 

[Aquarist007]

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Re: New

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15263935#post15263935 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishcube 3.0
Hi I'm Roy, from the Philippines. I'm fairly new to the hobby of reefkeeping. But I have some experience keeping marine fishes. I have a 75 gal reef tank with a 40 gal sump using plastic storage bins. It has a 250 gal cap protein skimmer, a 2200 li/hr return pump. I use 2 1200 L/hr circulation pump in the display tank. I presently have a kenya tree, couple of Gonioporas, an ancora sp., a small frogspawn coral, an orange and green zooanthids,and several discosomas. As for the fishes; I only have a foxface, a firefish, a small nisso tang, and a pair of spawning dragonets. Whew...

Sounds like your tank is doing very well. Care to post some pictures of it?

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[MarshaW]

HI everyone, My name is Marsha and I live in Oklahoma City. I've wanted a salt water tank for a long time now, so I bought my first from an individual today. It's a small 12 gallon tank, with 1 clown fish and 1 other that I don't know the name.

I decided to add more fish, so I bought my first 3 fish today..... unfortuantely, one died. Can someone tell me what may have caused the death? It was fine when I brought it home but after 3 or 4 hours, it sunk to the bottom.

 

[Michael]

hi-marshaw, nice to see you here, well basically the 2 original fish you had may well have been enough for the size of your aquarium, adding 3 others is too much too quickly, ammonia or stress because of space may have been the reason, ammonia may have already been in the tank and when you added 3 new fish the weakest of the 3 suffered, id suggest an immediate 505% water change and you need to get some test kits to ensure ammonia isnt present in the tank.

also you are ahead of yourself unfortunately, id suggest reading waterkeepers thread which is stickied at the top of the forum and slow down abit.

you will need to let us know some more info as well, have you a skimmer, live rock, etc etc

[welcome]

 

[MarshaW]

HI everyone, My name is MarshaW. and I live in Oklahoma City. I just bought my first tank, a small 12 gallon for starters, and unfortunately, one of my new fish died w/n 5 hours. The clown fish is doing wonderful, so I don't know what happened to the blue one. Can they die from shock?

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15269978#post15269978 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MarshaW
HI everyone, My name is MarshaW. and I live in Oklahoma City. I just bought my first tank, a small 12 gallon for starters, and unfortunately, one of my new fish died w/n 5 hours. The clown fish is doing wonderful, so I don't know what happened to the blue one. Can they die from shock?

Marshaw---you have to cycle your fish tank before adding fish or they will die. In cycling you add 15lbs of live rock to your tank and let it sit for 3-5 weeks without fish or invertebrates. this allows the bacteria to grow in numbers to handle the ammonia produced by fish.

here is some more information on cycling your tank and other things you should be aware of :

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1031074

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[Michael]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15269978#post15269978 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MarshaW
HI everyone, My name is MarshaW. and I live in Oklahoma City. I just bought my first tank, a small 12 gallon for starters, and unfortunately, one of my new fish died w/n 5 hours. The clown fish is doing wonderful, so I don't know what happened to the blue one. Can they die from shock?

? deja vu

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15270433#post15270433 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Michael
? deja vu

right on

MarshaW--I have the feeling that your live fish store (LFS) has instructed you to cycle your tank using live fish such as a clown and a damsel.
Alot of reefers on here prefer to cycle their tanks naturally by using live rock and when ammonia and nitrate levels are zero start to add inverts, coral and finally fish.
By using live fish you are subjecting to ammonia poisoning and when they die in your case possible causing further ammonia spikes affecting life that has hitch hiked in on your live rock.

I would suggest you remove the dead fish if you have not done so already and change 30 per cent of the water in your tank.
If you can't find a home for the remaining clown fish for the next 3-4 weeks then you should be doing a 20 percent water change every day for at least the next week.

 

[Pennies2cents]

Hello All,

My Husband & I just recently invested our time and $$ into a 240 mixed reef setup. We have been in this hobby for a little over a year and have enjoyed everybit of it. We look forward to alot more reading, learning and meeting new people.

 

[Lalorelei]

Ohh 240? I am so jealous.

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15274010#post15274010 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pennies2cents
Hello All,

My Husband & I just recently invested our time and $$ into a 240 mixed reef setup. We have been in this hobby for a little over a year and have enjoyed everybit of it. We look forward to alot more reading, learning and meeting new people.

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Please post some pictures of your setup real soon