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

[Ellylove]

Ouch. Way to skip me. Guess I'll just stick with my other forums.

 

[Paul B]

Ellylove you certified florist.
I don't know how to do that welcome thing but welcome anyway.
Sorry to hear about your Dad, hope that all turns out well for him.
I am sure the Capn will adaquately welcome you as he is always here. He will also answer all of your questions. I personally love hermit crabs.
And tell your boyfriend, Thank you for me.

 

[Michael]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15734618#post15734618 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ellylove
Ouch. Way to skip me. Guess I'll just stick with my other forums.

hey don't do that

[welcome]

 

[Michael]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15735375#post15735375 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Paul B

I don't know how to do that welcome thing.

paul bracket[ then put the word welcome next to it then ] another bracket after

so [word inside]

 

[Ellylove]

Thanks guys. : ) I'll tell my bf thanks.

 

[aNorthernSoul]

My name is Dustin and after months of browsing these forums I decided to join. Basically, I had set up a small salt water aquarium after only ever running fresh water tanks. After a rock crab snuck in on some live rock and basically wound up instigating the events that lead to all my fish dying, I decided to upgrade to a 55 gallon tank and do a lot of research and take my time setting it up. I finally just introduced two clowns and a powder blue tang only to find out there are still a couple rock crabs hiding in there along with the other various hitchhikers. I'm hoping to eventually catch them and add them to the small tank of about 15 rock crabs I seem to have now that my daughter vetoed my idea to catch and kill them. :twitch:

 

[Michael]

hi-welcome to the forum

we like pictures here

[welcome]

 

[aNorthernSoul]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15737439#post15737439 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Michael
hi-welcome to the forum

we like pictures here

<img src="/images/welcome.gif" width="500" height="62"><br><b><i><big><big>To Reef Central</b></i></big></big>

Ha ha! Why, thanks. OK, I just added some pics.

Here's the tank... it's a little boring right now as the live rock only just finished curing now and I'm using a crappy iPhone camera so you don't get a good look at all the colour... but there is yet to have much plant life or anything in there (thus the seaweed clip.)

And here is my Blue Tang

And here is that Tang stressing me out as I KNOW there are crabs in that rock still.

 

[Paul B]

paul bracket[ then put the word welcome next to it then ] another bracket after

Yes, I was told that many times but I'm old and I forget, besides the Capt, gets paid for that and I don't want to steal his job

Hello again Ellylove, we didn't forget about you


[welcome]

Cool

 

[gojosie1]

Hi my name is Josie. I live in Menifee, Ca and I have been in the hobby since January. I currently have a 225 gallon reef tank. it has Marshall Island rock, 250 watt metal halides with cooler fans, tunze wave maker with turbines with computer, calcium reactor, bio lazier, protein skimmer, refugium system with Co2 tank and gages, and a large chiller. the livestock i have are a yellow stripe maroon clownfish, manderin, diamond goby, bellus angel, black spot angel, tomini tang, eye-spot tang, neon goby, 2 sailfin tangs, 2 yellow tangs, coral beauty angel, flame angel, purple tang, hippo tang, powder blue tang, powder brown tang, banner fish, lyretail anthias, 2 blue starfish, 4 turbo snails, 50 Caribbean bluelegged hermits, 20 scarlet red legged hermits, 6 cleaner shrimp, 5 fire shrimp, 2 camelback shrimp,emerald crab,sallylight foot crab, a few leather corals, starpolys, and a bubble coral. I also have a 150 gallon with just a snowflake eel and a green chromi. it has a dual pack protein skimmer, 2 rena xp4 canister filters, uv sterilizer and a lg. chiller. i just ordered a sump for this tank and i want to make it an angelfish tank. i want to get a queen angel, blueface angel, and goldflake angel. the snowflake and chromi are going back to the lfs, lol.

 

[Michael]

thats a lovely sized tank, many of us would drool over, and a sumps a great idea

[welcome]

 

[Blue corner]

Hi, my name is Pascal, 47 old, leave in Taiwan since almost 20 years, in FW since 32 years and switch to SW few years ago, when by a sunny day I catched few Damsels from the Ocean.

Have a nano tank and since this one was to cloudy by the fishs, I move early August this year my poor soft coral in a pico tank 4.3gl (without fish), they do actualy very good in it and come back to a heatly condition very quick (I'm really surprise how fast). I will try to make a thread soon about this Pico.

I subcribe to RC, due to the thread of month, the dream tank of Chingchai, I think should be the dream of every one here, on which I post some reply.

My user name "Blue corner" was choiced to remember me nice vacation in Palau, where it was a nice diving spot name.

RC is a very great site for this hobby and actualy very succefull.

By the way forgot about my english, I'm a french man.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

<img src="/images/welcome.gif" width="500" height="62"><br><b><i><big><big>To Reef Central</b></i></big></big>

Or should I say Écouter

 

[Makeiraitlyn]

Hello everyone,
My name is Summer, I live in WA, married and mom to 3 girls. I have 2 Chows(Chi-Ching and Mao Mao), a cat(Tiocy) and a 75 gallon freshwater tank with Malawi African Cichlids: (Greshakei)Bruce,(Female Fryeri) Turk, (Kenyi)Little Bloo,(Acei) Chip,(Male Fryeri) Singh, (5 Yellow Labs)Snoopy, Rex, Brian, Odie & Spuds...

I am beyond new to this as I do not have a saltwater tank at all as of yet. But that is because I want to learn EVERYTHING about them first. I have a 55 that I am thinking about making into a saltwater tank... Is this a decent size? I also have a 20 that I was thinking of trying too... Can any saltwater fish live in a 20?

I guess my first question is... where do I start?? I know I like the clown fish but short of that, I know nothing of compatible tankmates, best substrate, live rock or imitation, what kind of plants/coral??

I am pretty much completely a newbie but I want to do it right and have everything go as well as it can.

Oh, I am not planning on getting this tank set up until sometime next year... I am just in the planning stages and want to get a good stocklist. We like the bright colorful fish and want some real eye catchers.

I am anxious to read more on this site and very anxious for any help on how to get started....

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Makeiraitlyn
[welcome]
To answer your question, I would start reading through this

 

[chrisd1986]

Ok now that i have gone on and read some stuff about water quality im a little lost, i belive that im ok in all areas exept my ph which i cant seem to get up and keep it there.
using tetra test

NH3/NH4 - 0-.25 mg/l
NO2 - <.3 mg/l
KH - 11
PH - 7.7
CO2 - 6 mg/l
salt - 1.022
temp - 80 F

this is a fish only with 2 damsles, 1 clown and 1 hippo tang no live rock or sand
im using a ehime can filter with 2 maxi jet 400 which i have recently found out that this is not enough water movment for my tank 75g tall

 

[Blue corner]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15741770#post15741770 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sisterlimonpot
<img src="/images/welcome.gif" width="500" height="62"><br><b><i><big><big>To Reef Central</b></i></big></big>

Or should I say Écouter

Thanks for your welcome!
You should say "Bienvevue"

 

[volnation23]

Hello Everyone

Hello Everyone

Hello everyone. My name is Maverick. I'm 23 years old and looking to learn about the saltwater hobby. My first step is choosing my first aquarium/tank and if anyone could give me advice I sure would appreciate it. Just a heads up I'm really pressed for space at the moment so a larger aquarium is gonna be hard to fit in what space I have availible. Right now I'm looking at the Biocube 9 & Biocube 14 gallon aquariums. Any advice on those would be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks!

 

[Alatariel]

Hi everyone! :wave:

I'm new to this board, but not totally new to the hobby. I used to have a 125-gallon FO setup about 7 years ago that I had to give up. I've missed my fish ever since, and with the support of my bf I'm going to start getting back into the hobby again.

So the boring stuff - I'm 31, I'm a technical writer and part-time grad student, and I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone here!

 

[SaltLifeLove]

Hi everyone! I am new to the forum and very new to the Saltwater adventure! My husband grew up with saltwater tanks and knows a good amount of stuff. I have found my self reading a lot on the forum and thought it was time to join! My son is the main reason for starting the hobby, he is only 3 1/2 but has been fascinated with marine life and fish sense he was a baby. He loves going to the aquarium and Sea World and is now ecstatic about his new tank! We have a 20 gallon long tank that has been running for a week, if all goes well we will be upgrading in about 6 months to 50 or 75 gallons. We have just added two chromis to the tank because our levels have tested well. They are sort of the sacrificial fish in case anything goes wrong even thought I am routing for survival! We have about 10 lbs of live rock and we bought a new lighting fixture, because we have a goal to have coral in a few more weeks. My son is very excited about getting "Nemo"! We are also going to be getting a Banded coral shrimp, a firefish and maybe a dwarf angelfish. The local Saltwater specialty stores have been very helpful and haven't pressured us into any crazy expenses, and for that I am thankful. I am open to any advice or constructive criticism, I am trying to post a pic but unsure how.
Well any way, I am happy to be a part of the forum and I am sure I will have plenty of questions as the days go on!