Hi:wavehand: my name is Jessica, my husband and I got our first SW tank in August, an established 29g bio cube. It came with a tang that I LOVE, so we are upgrading him to a 120g with 40 gal sump. Currently in the plumbing stages so advise in the best overflow system( currently 2 holes drilled in back of center overflow box) and things to consider like placement of valves etc....would be welcomed. :spin1:
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Underwoodjimmer
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Hi im James 26 years old and compleat novice.
Just ordered a red sea reefer 170!
I'm new to reef keeping and would welcome all the help this site offers.
My eqipment list so far is...
Reefer 170
Bubble mags c3.5 protein skimmer
Tunze turbelle 6025
Visi-therm 200 heater
Eheim compact 2000 return pump
I all ready owned a light unit but I'm worried it won't be good enough for the size tank I have gone for, its a
Aquabeam 2000 HD ultima NP any thoughts???????
Thanks for reading.
Just ordered a red sea reefer 170!
I'm new to reef keeping and would welcome all the help this site offers.
My eqipment list so far is...
Reefer 170
Bubble mags c3.5 protein skimmer
Tunze turbelle 6025
Visi-therm 200 heater
Eheim compact 2000 return pump
I all ready owned a light unit but I'm worried it won't be good enough for the size tank I have gone for, its a
Aquabeam 2000 HD ultima NP any thoughts???????
Thanks for reading.
SithRico
New member
Newbie Here
Newbie Here
Hello everyone. My name is Anthony from Tucson AZ.
Finally starting a tank. I've always wanted one but people always told me it was too hard. My brother started a tank and seems to be doing great at it. So I decided to dive in and finally start a tank.
I've bought my tank a JBJ 45G Rimless. Still in the box, cause I want to start a YouTube channel also with the goods and bad of a new hobbyist.
All I have right now is a tank and still doing research on where to buy dry rock and sand. I don't want any live stuff in my tank. I will be running it new.
Hoping to get lots of info from fellow hobbyist and some good video ideas for my channel.
I'm so excited and really want this tank to become a beautiful part of my home.
Newbie Here
Hello everyone. My name is Anthony from Tucson AZ.
Finally starting a tank. I've always wanted one but people always told me it was too hard. My brother started a tank and seems to be doing great at it. So I decided to dive in and finally start a tank.
I've bought my tank a JBJ 45G Rimless. Still in the box, cause I want to start a YouTube channel also with the goods and bad of a new hobbyist.
All I have right now is a tank and still doing research on where to buy dry rock and sand. I don't want any live stuff in my tank. I will be running it new.
Hoping to get lots of info from fellow hobbyist and some good video ideas for my channel.
I'm so excited and really want this tank to become a beautiful part of my home.
milos87popovic
New member
Welcome to the forum 
Marinus
New member
Take 2: Hello again
Take 2: Hello again
Hi guys,
I've been away and without a tank for about 8 years, so I thought I would reintroduce myself.
I ran my first tank with reefcentral and it's awesome members' help, and now I'm excited to do it again.
My girlfriend surprised me with the idea of getting a fish tank for my birthday and let me pick one out! YAY! She knew I had one before and that I always wanted to get one again... what she didn't know is how obsesived and addicted I was and how much money I sank into it. :fun2:
I learned alot about the costs involved in starting a new 65g FOWLR setup, whowever, and so this time I've decided it would be fun to see how cheep I could get a proper 60g mixed reef setup going. I thought about doing a Nano to save on setup costs but couldn't resist this clearance deal at the LFS for a gorgeous Mr Aqua 60G cube. This will work perfect in the corner of our two couches!
I'll create a project thread soon, if you see it, please follow alonge, I would once again love all your awesome advice.
It's great to be BACK!
Cheers,
Marinus
P.S. I now live in Victoria, Canada with my beautiful girlfriend and our 3 nuckelhead boys 8, 10 and 12, two cats and a dog and soon FISH!
Take 2: Hello again
Hi guys,
I've been away and without a tank for about 8 years, so I thought I would reintroduce myself.
I ran my first tank with reefcentral and it's awesome members' help, and now I'm excited to do it again.
My girlfriend surprised me with the idea of getting a fish tank for my birthday and let me pick one out! YAY! She knew I had one before and that I always wanted to get one again... what she didn't know is how obsesived and addicted I was and how much money I sank into it. :fun2:
I learned alot about the costs involved in starting a new 65g FOWLR setup, whowever, and so this time I've decided it would be fun to see how cheep I could get a proper 60g mixed reef setup going. I thought about doing a Nano to save on setup costs but couldn't resist this clearance deal at the LFS for a gorgeous Mr Aqua 60G cube. This will work perfect in the corner of our two couches!
I'll create a project thread soon, if you see it, please follow alonge, I would once again love all your awesome advice.
It's great to be BACK!
Cheers,
Marinus
P.S. I now live in Victoria, Canada with my beautiful girlfriend and our 3 nuckelhead boys 8, 10 and 12, two cats and a dog and soon FISH!
mntbiker2008
New member
Long time lurker, new member today!
Long time lurker, new member today!
Hello, my name is Aaron.... and I am addicted to fish tanks....
I have been lurking around this forum for quite some time now and decided it was finally time to become a member. I have been in the fish tank hobby on and off now for about 15 years but recently dove head first in to it and developed a "horrible" addiction. I have mostly done community tanks and had a s.a. cichlid tank. I also enjoy woodworking so all my stands and canopies have been built by hand.
I recently picked up a 55 gallon tank for super cheap and am in the process of building my saltwater/ reef tank. This will be my second saltwater tank as I currently have a 30 gallon running just to figure out all the little tricks to keeping a saltwater tank.
I am going to be starting a build thread when I get home this evening to show my progress through the build and hopefully get some insight on what I can do/not do. There's always room to learn, right!?!
Long time lurker, new member today!
Hello, my name is Aaron.... and I am addicted to fish tanks....
I have been lurking around this forum for quite some time now and decided it was finally time to become a member. I have been in the fish tank hobby on and off now for about 15 years but recently dove head first in to it and developed a "horrible" addiction. I have mostly done community tanks and had a s.a. cichlid tank. I also enjoy woodworking so all my stands and canopies have been built by hand.
I recently picked up a 55 gallon tank for super cheap and am in the process of building my saltwater/ reef tank. This will be my second saltwater tank as I currently have a 30 gallon running just to figure out all the little tricks to keeping a saltwater tank.
I am going to be starting a build thread when I get home this evening to show my progress through the build and hopefully get some insight on what I can do/not do. There's always room to learn, right!?!
Marinus
New member
Welcome, like you i'm doing my second saltwater build and like woodworking as well, infact I'm working on the stand design this very moment. First real problem is finding a place for all the stuff in my garage so I can have room to work. I've ordered a cheap tin shed online but it's backordered and won't get here for like a month!
Hello all At Reef Central,
My wife and I are very new to the salt water hobby although we have a 125g fresh water Cichlid tank. We have started with a 90g salt tank and also converted our 46bow front to salt. This all started in September of 2015 with the salt water. We have learned so much with google and our local reef stores, we still encountered issues with fish, rocks and unwanted things in the tank.
First I will say that buying Fiji live rock has been very disappointing even though it looks nice. We have encountered unexpected Aptasia, Sea Urchins (ok) and the worst possible thing,,, the Mantis. This monster is in my tank and has taken my Diamond Watchman Goby today. The Goby has been a proud edition to our tank, tunneling under rock and moving sand. Such a pleasure to watch. I have not seen him all day and this makes me sad after I heard this clicking sound coming from the tank,,,,then I saw this little POS! I called our Salt water friends at a few shops and they said to get it out of there.
We inverted a plastic bottle and put some bait into it, hopefully we will see something in the morning. I have a few thousand dollars in this start-up and these are the things that I did not want to see happen. Losing a life sucks and I want this to go smoothly as possible because being successful is something to be proud of. A 300g tank is what I really want in the near future but this 90 has to succeed first. Everything else in the tank is alive and growing, the corals look beautiful and it is such a pleasure to watch. The Hawk Fish is in heaven,,,love watching that one. Black Ice Clowns, Powder blue and Hippo Tang are having a blast. The Anemones are happy and I love this hobby,,,lets just hope I can get this monster out of our tank!
By the way, Nothing would give me more pleasure than throwing this rock through the front window of the store that it was purchased at. Being newbies, there should be some sort of warning when buying live rock!
Cheers,
BrianS90
My wife and I are very new to the salt water hobby although we have a 125g fresh water Cichlid tank. We have started with a 90g salt tank and also converted our 46bow front to salt. This all started in September of 2015 with the salt water. We have learned so much with google and our local reef stores, we still encountered issues with fish, rocks and unwanted things in the tank.
First I will say that buying Fiji live rock has been very disappointing even though it looks nice. We have encountered unexpected Aptasia, Sea Urchins (ok) and the worst possible thing,,, the Mantis. This monster is in my tank and has taken my Diamond Watchman Goby today. The Goby has been a proud edition to our tank, tunneling under rock and moving sand. Such a pleasure to watch. I have not seen him all day and this makes me sad after I heard this clicking sound coming from the tank,,,,then I saw this little POS! I called our Salt water friends at a few shops and they said to get it out of there.
We inverted a plastic bottle and put some bait into it, hopefully we will see something in the morning. I have a few thousand dollars in this start-up and these are the things that I did not want to see happen. Losing a life sucks and I want this to go smoothly as possible because being successful is something to be proud of. A 300g tank is what I really want in the near future but this 90 has to succeed first. Everything else in the tank is alive and growing, the corals look beautiful and it is such a pleasure to watch. The Hawk Fish is in heaven,,,love watching that one. Black Ice Clowns, Powder blue and Hippo Tang are having a blast. The Anemones are happy and I love this hobby,,,lets just hope I can get this monster out of our tank!
By the way, Nothing would give me more pleasure than throwing this rock through the front window of the store that it was purchased at. Being newbies, there should be some sort of warning when buying live rock!
Cheers,
BrianS90
Getting Back Up on the Horse
Getting Back Up on the Horse
I have been out of the hobby for 30 yrs and getting back into it now. I only had freshwater fish but trying my hand at saltwater. I purchased a 210 gal from a friend who was moving and couldn't take it with. The only good thing out of the deal was the tank. everything else was in bad shape and had to be discarded or repaired. I have been reading up on everything. I built the stand and canopy, put together a 75 gal sump/refugium. I am working on the lighting next. My friend moved 18 months ago. I do not have any living creatures in the tank yet. It's been cycling for the past two months. Looking to start adding fish at first. As you can see, I am taking this very slow.
Getting Back Up on the Horse
I have been out of the hobby for 30 yrs and getting back into it now. I only had freshwater fish but trying my hand at saltwater. I purchased a 210 gal from a friend who was moving and couldn't take it with. The only good thing out of the deal was the tank. everything else was in bad shape and had to be discarded or repaired. I have been reading up on everything. I built the stand and canopy, put together a 75 gal sump/refugium. I am working on the lighting next. My friend moved 18 months ago. I do not have any living creatures in the tank yet. It's been cycling for the past two months. Looking to start adding fish at first. As you can see, I am taking this very slow.
Update on Deadly Mantis
Update on Deadly Mantis
Have you captured the deadly MANTIS yet?
Update on Deadly Mantis
Have you captured the deadly MANTIS yet?
Royal dawg
New member
40 years ago managed the salt water fish dept in an Atlanta pet store. No reef tanks then. Been completely away from salt water since then. Had a few fresh tanks over the years. Now retired and thought I would try doing a reef tank for a new hobby. Have a 40 gallon breeder tank I can use for a display. Looks like a great forum to learn from.
thelawnwrangler
New member
New to Saltwater
Had freshwater as a kid and always want to have a saltwater tank so just starting the process of finding the best entry point.
I want to start with live rock and fish only and then over months if I am comfortable with how I am doing venture into some of the easier coral.
Any suggestions on finding the best entry point set up would be much appreciated?
So far best offer seems like a Fluval M90 36 gallon tank. I like that it comes ready to go. Other thoughts would be something between 29 -55 gallons, but that leaves me figuring out what filter, type, what protein skimmer what lights.
also going to search for live rock suggestions. I have heard a pound per a gallon, but also heard if you are starting fish only to possible do dry and live to save cost.
Had freshwater as a kid and always want to have a saltwater tank so just starting the process of finding the best entry point.
I want to start with live rock and fish only and then over months if I am comfortable with how I am doing venture into some of the easier coral.
Any suggestions on finding the best entry point set up would be much appreciated?
So far best offer seems like a Fluval M90 36 gallon tank. I like that it comes ready to go. Other thoughts would be something between 29 -55 gallons, but that leaves me figuring out what filter, type, what protein skimmer what lights.
also going to search for live rock suggestions. I have heard a pound per a gallon, but also heard if you are starting fish only to possible do dry and live to save cost.
mntbiker2008
New member
Awesome! I have the same problem. lol except I don't have a garage to work out of. I have a 3 bedroom house to myself so one room is dedicated to my woodworking and the other is for storage/ fish stuff. I never realized how much space the aquarium stuff takes up!!!
I built a simple 3 shelve rack out of 2x4's. It is 8 ft tall and 8 ft wide. very very simple build and it has been great!
Red Sea help please
Red Sea help please
Hello ,I have a Red Sea 250 reefer , question is it comes with 2 mesh socks so I ordered 2 felt 225 felt socks ,I know the mesh is easier to clean however just looking at them the felt looks like it will catch particals better I may be wrong, I want to know which filter sock catches debri better .
Red Sea help please
Hello ,I have a Red Sea 250 reefer , question is it comes with 2 mesh socks so I ordered 2 felt 225 felt socks ,I know the mesh is easier to clean however just looking at them the felt looks like it will catch particals better I may be wrong, I want to know which filter sock catches debri better .
Hi folks
First of all, I'm Spanish, so sorry for my English.
I have a nano reef with 50 real liters. My led system is DIY with 35x3w led and wide spectrum
My skimmer is boyu wg 428 and I have almost 9 kilograms of life rock
Currently, it's maturing. I don't know if it says maturing in English, in Spanish is 'ciclando'. Anyway, currently I'm waiting one month to introduce a pair of ocellaris.
Well, that's all for the moment, I hope to learn a lot in this amazing forum
Regards!!!!
First of all, I'm Spanish, so sorry for my English.
I have a nano reef with 50 real liters. My led system is DIY with 35x3w led and wide spectrum
My skimmer is boyu wg 428 and I have almost 9 kilograms of life rock
Currently, it's maturing. I don't know if it says maturing in English, in Spanish is 'ciclando'. Anyway, currently I'm waiting one month to introduce a pair of ocellaris.
Well, that's all for the moment, I hope to learn a lot in this amazing forum
Regards!!!!
ninjatech
New member
Hello All New and not so New
Hello All New and not so New
Hi All,
New to the Hobby, I have recently setup a Red Sea 130C, My tank is basically 5 days old. I have an old 25 gallon tank that didn't do me any justice. I have 3 fishes and live rock on my old tank that I transferred out into the new tank a few hours after we have finished the setup. ( I could never keep a coral alive on the old tank)
Here is what I did to get my tank going. I feel pretty good with my new LFS. No pressure at all and I told him what I wanted and basically GOT IT.
**MY LFS helped me setup my tank
**Brought water from them including saltwater and RODI water for top off
**New live sand, My live rocks from old tank was transferred to the new tank
So far I am happy with the setup. I decided to join here to learn and get some tips and make friends.:dance:
Hello All New and not so New
Hi All,
New to the Hobby, I have recently setup a Red Sea 130C, My tank is basically 5 days old. I have an old 25 gallon tank that didn't do me any justice. I have 3 fishes and live rock on my old tank that I transferred out into the new tank a few hours after we have finished the setup. ( I could never keep a coral alive on the old tank)
Here is what I did to get my tank going. I feel pretty good with my new LFS. No pressure at all and I told him what I wanted and basically GOT IT.
**MY LFS helped me setup my tank
**Brought water from them including saltwater and RODI water for top off
**New live sand, My live rocks from old tank was transferred to the new tank
So far I am happy with the setup. I decided to join here to learn and get some tips and make friends.:dance:
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