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Ghostbuster said:
Hi,

Thanks for letting me join Reef Central!

GB
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If someone on here gave you permission to join---then it must have been the waterkeeper---please report it--he has been missing at sea for a couple of months and you might have found him:lol:

Everyone is welcome to join RC and you don't need a ticket. It is our pleasure that you decided to join us

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Brand New

Brand New

Hi All,

I'm very new to everything involving a reef tank. I have one friend that is in the hobby that is helping me. For now, I'm wondering if anybody would have any good leads on where I can get my hands on a used 30-55 gallon tank with necessary equipment and stand for a good price. I'm not going to start with corals for now, so won't need the equipment for that. I'm just going the fish route for now.

I'll leave it at that and say that I'm glad to join the community.
 
Hi, I am brand new to reef tanks and have been reading online for a couple of months as well as visiting the LFS's. I currently have no equipment and am just in the planning stage. I am looking at building a 120 gallon tank with mostly SPS and softies with maybe a few LPS thrown into the mix. A LFS gave me a qoute of about $5,000 for a 100 Gallon tank with all I need to get going including water live rock and sand with a furniture grade stand and canopy(1,800 by it self). Still trying to figure out what it will cost me to build vs letting her do it. I think I would enjoy it more and learn more putting it together myself.....or maybe it would be wiser to start with her guidance? :p

At any rate I am sure it will be well into 2010 before this really gets off the ground. I have lots of decisions to make and really need to put it all on paper and get a good idea of equipment I wont and the cast. Looking forward to learning here.

Shane
 
Hi. I'm recently new to reef central. I joined last week and everyone is extremely helpful! Everyone answers my questions super quick. This is the best forum sight I've ever seen. I like this forum and the people here a lot!
 
Hey, just joined a few weeks ago. Love that you've got forums for the different types of corals. I'm quickly catching the zoa-bug. This suddenly got more expensive lol.
 
Intro

Intro

Hi everyone, my name is Theo, had fresh water all my life. Started small and worked my way up to a 265 g tank now and its time to go salt water. Did lots of reading, and got lots confused, 1 question and 3 different replys lol...Well im here now read alot of threads before i joined, was impressed, everyone is really cool here and seems very knowledgable.
 
New to the hobby

New to the hobby

Hello RC. I'm Merc and I bought a 55g set-up off of craigslist. Seeing that it wasn't broken down yet I feel confident that all is well with it. Now that I have it home and have cleaned it (vinegar and water), I'm ready to get it started. I'm glad a co-worker told me about this site because I will need all the help I can get.

Thanks in advance
 
Been doing Freshwater tanks for about 5 years now. My largest aquarium is a 180 Gallon freshwater. I still have the first fish I bought which was a 2" Oscar. He is now close to 5 years old and 16 inches.

I just bought a 90 Gallon aquarium for my first saltwater tank.

Look forward to learning and contributing to the site.
 
My name is Faraz and I am an active member on another site with a # attached to reef. I was referred to this site by a LatinoHeatCHI. I met him after putting a AD on CL to give away some chaeto. There is a couple photos of my tank in my profile and I will be posting a video link here as well. I am a third year medical student thats addicted to reef(ing) not reef(er) surprisingly. I have been in the aquarium hobby for 10 years, but took a big gap in between for medical school in the carribean. Can you believe, someone like me, not going scuba diving after being in the carribean for 2 years. Didnt have time, but I brought the ocean to my living room the best I could. Im looking forward to joining this great community and learn as well as share my knowledge with all of you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSEyyCHGUds
 
Hi i am Bogdan, "migrating" here from the clowns of livingreef. Gez they suck!
If you don't do as they say, you are considered rebel and undesired.
I have a 90 gallons saltwater and i usually like to invent practical stuff. I don't like paying the local fish stores suppliers as they are ripping us off. Everything can be easily built from low cost materials and relatively less time work.
I currently built a protein skimmer and a small canister filter with interchangeable media (including 1 micron mechanical algae remover) at 4 times lesser cost than dedicated ones existent on the market. Currently redesigning a new concept of sump.
 
Howzit,

Writing from San Diego. Working with an 80G tall, 20G sump. I've only been at this for ~1.5 years, so no reef yet. Had to start over about 4-5 months ago and just started adding fish 2 weeks ago. My additions so far; cleaning crew, pair of clowns, goldhead sleeper goby, and 3 firefish.

Great site. Thanks to everyone.
 
lightningbauer said:
Hi All,

I'm very new to everything involving a reef tank. I have one friend that is in the hobby that is helping me. For now, I'm wondering if anybody would have any good leads on where I can get my hands on a used 30-55 gallon tank with necessary equipment and stand for a good price. I'm not going to start with corals for now, so won't need the equipment for that. I'm just going the fish route for now.

I'll leave it at that and say that I'm glad to join the community.
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Glad to have you here.
Your best bet is to try to look for someone tearing down there set up. I would start with local forums and also craigslist.
 
Malinois1 said:
Hi, I am brand new to reef tanks and have been reading online for a couple of months as well as visiting the LFS's. I currently have no equipment and am just in the planning stage. I am looking at building a 120 gallon tank with mostly SPS and softies with maybe a few LPS thrown into the mix. A LFS gave me a qoute of about $5,000 for a 100 Gallon tank with all I need to get going including water live rock and sand with a furniture grade stand and canopy(1,800 by it self). Still trying to figure out what it will cost me to build vs letting her do it. I think I would enjoy it more and learn more putting it together myself.....or maybe it would be wiser to start with her guidance? :p

At any rate I am sure it will be well into 2010 before this really gets off the ground. I have lots of decisions to make and really need to put it all on paper and get a good idea of equipment I wont and the cast. Looking forward to learning here.

Shane
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To save some of the up front costs you might be able to get s used set up for a fraction of the cost. I got my 125 with stand sum and pumps for $75. Not to say those deals are everywhere but you can get a tank and stand a lot cheaper id your patient.

More advice: Take things slow you have your sites set high with SPS so make sure you have stable water conditions before attempting SPS. and read read read! :)
 
Felixc395 said:
Hi. I'm recently new to reef central. I joined last week and everyone is extremely helpful! Everyone answers my questions super quick. This is the best forum sight I've ever seen. I like this forum and the people here a lot!
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Glad to have you with us, I'm already subscribed to one of your thread about Zoas. Keep it up!
 
Theo1972 said:
Hi everyone, my name is Theo, had fresh water all my life. Started small and worked my way up to a 265 g tank now and its time to go salt water. Did lots of reading, and got lots confused, 1 question and 3 different replys lol...Well im here now read alot of threads before i joined, was impressed, everyone is really cool here and seems very knowledgable.
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that 265 will make for an awesome reef tank.

merfish101 said:
Hello RC. I'm Merc and I bought a 55g set-up off of craigslist. Seeing that it wasn't broken down yet I feel confident that all is well with it. Now that I have it home and have cleaned it (vinegar and water), I'm ready to get it started. I'm glad a co-worker told me about this site because I will need all the help I can get.

Thanks in advance
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Merc,
Glad to have you with us. Make sure that when you get that tank where you want it post some pics.
 
Drewhop said:
Been doing Freshwater tanks for about 5 years now. My largest aquarium is a 180 Gallon freshwater. I still have the first fish I bought which was a 2" Oscar. He is now close to 5 years old and 16 inches.

I just bought a 90 Gallon aquarium for my first saltwater tank.

Look forward to learning and contributing to the site.
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Glad to hear you made the leap to salt water. you wont regret it. you'll want to get rid of that Oscar tank and make it a reef tank.

DaDaATL said:
My name is Faraz and I am an active member on another site with a # attached to reef. I was referred to this site by a LatinoHeatCHI. I met him after putting a AD on CL to give away some chaeto. There is a couple photos of my tank in my profile and I will be posting a video link here as well. I am a third year medical student thats addicted to reef(ing) not reef(er) surprisingly. I have been in the aquarium hobby for 10 years, but took a big gap in between for medical school in the carribean. Can you believe, someone like me, not going scuba diving after being in the carribean for 2 years. Didnt have time, but I brought the ocean to my living room the best I could. Im looking forward to joining this great community and learn as well as share my knowledge with all of you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSEyyCHGUds
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[welcome]
Good to have you here. carribean for 2 years wow that sounds like a fun 2 year vacation.
 
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