Newbie Introduction Thread

MUCHO REEF

MUCHO REEF

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I've noticed a lot of our newer members are a bit reluctant to post or reply, and there really is no reason not to. You play a very important roll in keeping this forum alive with your questions and concerns. So, to piggy back PufferPunk's thread, if you've been reefing for less than a year, it would be great if you could introduce yourselves. Tell us about your system and what you have thus far. The people here are very giving and always willing to help. Sharing with us who you are and some background will mean an awful lot.

Mucho
 
I'll bite, although I have been around a while I don't think I have ever done a intro post,

Josh, 30 year old Diesel Tech from Southeast Michigan. 8 gallon BioCube for a year, kept a lot of things in there that pushed the limitsa bit for the little tank with stock lights... several montipora, lps and the such.

I now have a 3 month old system consisting of a custom 95 gallon tank from Great Lakes Aquariums. 36" long x 30" wide x 20.5" tall. 50 breeder as a sump in my basement. Mag 12 return 7 feet up to the tank, 2 6055 Tunze Nano Streams, 1 6100 Tunze on a controller, about 90 lbs of live rock, 100 lbs of mixed grade aragonite sands. 3 36" TEKII retros for a total of 234 watts. Ranco Temp controller with dual 250w heaters, ViaAqua Reactor with Phosban, JBJ ATO system, AquaC EV120 running on a 633gph ECO pump, 12 gallon fuge and 30 lbs of live rock in the sump.


Fish are a 4" Purple Tang, 3 Green Chromis, 1 Chalk Bass, 1 Yellow Coris Wrasse.

Corals include... brains, frogspawns, acans, lobos, chalice, 3 different montipora, blue tort, a couple flourescent red shrooms, and a whole bunch of palys and zoas. LPS and Paly/zoas are my biggest obsessions.

Plus the other things every good reefer should have... RO/DI system, 50 gallons of NSW on hand , 30 gallons of RO/DI water on hand, enough Salifert test kits to make a man go broke, backup return pump... etc... and the most important one of all...


A VERY FORGIVING WIFE!
 
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Welcome fellow Michigander. Sounds like you are on the right track, nice setup you have. Thanks for sharing.


GO BLUE
 
Thanks Mucho! ... and yes GO BLUE!

Ahh and the parameters I forgot to list
SG is 1.025-1.026
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates <5
PH 8.3
KH 11.5Phosphates unreadable
Calcium 480
Magnesium 1340
Temp 77-78 degrees
8 hour photo period
dosing 2 part

No one else out there wanna share their system?
 
Hi, im Jason an 18yr old student. Ive been addicted to the salts for about 8 months now and i believe i have my problem under control. :) I have a standard 10 gallon with a DIY 55watt 50/50 setup. Thats all thats on the tank besides a powerhead for some flow. The tank has about 10-12lb. of live rock.
As far as inverts go i have some zoa "frags" (i got small chunks that fragged themself off of colonies in the display tank at my lfs) ceriths, and some other unidentified snails as well as a few scarlet hermits. The latest invert addition was a peppermint shrimp. The only vertebrate is a neon goby. And thats about it as far as the tank goes, you know besides the water. :p

Im a high school student thats interested in "marine bio or something" but im not quite sure what the something is yet. I run my tank as close to nature as i can....i dont even feed my goby...the pods take care of that. My tank will be going with me to college but i want to keep it the way it is for now with summer and the move to college so close.

Oh yea, great thread idea pufferpunk and great spin-off Mucho
 
Oh where to begin?
I "inherited" my tank from my son. He originally brought it home when he was getting a divorce. His soon to be Ex had threatened to do some nasty things to it. So last summer he brought it over. It was still his until this past week. He just went back to Iraq (well, Kuwait first) and had started to part it out when I told him I would take it.

I have had fresh water tanks for years. And I'm not a COMPLETE idiot about saltwater. Lol, just mostly an idiot. After all, he did teach me a few things.

My biggest concern right now is getting the anemone to eat (long story there). I do want to get some more color back into the tank and replace most of the SPS that he had in there with zoas and mushrooms.

And I just noticed that I forgot to add the birdsnest coral into my tank description. Lol, I always manage to forget someone when I'm describing the tank!
 
Hello everyone. My name is Brian. I am from western New Jersey. I have been mostly reading as much as possible over the past few months. I was going to set up a 55 gallon tank, but since I am probably going to be moving within a year, I have decided to take my 60lbs of live rock and set up several nano tanks. I set up my first saltwater tank about 2 weeks ago. It is a 4 gallon Finnex tank, with a Current 36w dual satellite fixture and an aquaclear20 running just carbon. It has a margarita snail, a scarlet hermit and a nassairus snail. So far the tank is coming along great. Within the next few weeks, I would like to add some zoas. Here is a link for the tank.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1336560
I also have a 10gallon, and a 29 gallon that I would like to set up sometime soon. I actually have most of the stuff for the 10. Just gotta find some time.
 
Oops. Forgot to mention the single fish in my tank. He is a striped damsel. I have been told that the tank is too small for him, so I will be swapping him for a firefish goby.
 
I guess i should partake here. My name is Samuel and i'm from Long Island NY. I started keeping aquariums about 4 years ago when i bought a 20g starter kit. Eventually NO T8 lighting, fake gravel, hob filter and fake plants turned to power compacts, real plants, a CO2 system, nutrient rich gravel, a canister filter and fertilisation regime. After a year or so of that my 10 gallon planted tank was converted into a reef only to be moved another year later into my 20 (the original tank that started all this) and thats brings us to where i'm at now:

About 3 months since the tank move. My 20 gallon has a 10 gallon sump with a CPR bakpak hanging in the end of the sump. I have probably about 5 gallons of refugium area with some cheato and caulerpa and an eheim 1048 as my return pump. Lighting is a 150w sunpod 14k and a coralife NO T5 strip light with actinics. For circulation a koralia nano and a koralia 1 and the return from the sump which is about another 100 gph. I setup an ATO system using a bucket, a float switch and a aqualifter pump. I've been putting straightup kalkwasser in there for top-off, i hope it won't damage the pump over time, we'll see. Salifert test kits.
Livestock is about 30 lbs of live rock, a couple small fish, fire shrimp, two peppermint shrimp, bunch of various corallimorpharians, duncans, small kenya tree, trumpet coral and lots of zoanthus. Oh yeah and a E. diomedea lettuce nudibranch (not E crispata) that i call taco that lives in my fuge.

Water params : SG - 1.026, alk - 9.5 dkh, Ca - 400 ppm, mag - 1450 ppm, PO4 - .1 PPM, NO2 - 2 ppm. My temp is normally 76-77 but i have no way of knowing that right now because i dropped yet ANOTHER coralife digital thermometer in the water, ruining it, sigh, I'm going to go broke from those GD things.

Damn i think this is my longest post evar....
 
I see a lot of new reefers asking for the list of online stores. Any chance you can maybe stop by here for an introduction? Wouldn't hurt.
 
Hello my name is Michael and I am addicted to reefing. In august it will mark two years for me. I have had fresh water fish my whole life and when I became a manager at my local petco I started my first reef tank. It is a 29 gal show tank with a 20 gal long sump. I run a coralife 150w MH and a piece of junk sea clone 100 protein skimmer (I bought it used for less than 20 bucks so figured why not, wish I had skipped it). For this tank I like to do a lot of natural filtration so instead of carbon my sump is full of algae. As far as live stock it has zoas, pipe organs, xenia, daisies, some shrooms and a leather coral. I only have three fish: Diadema Pusedochromis, Maroon clown, and a green Mandarin. Some snails, crabs, and a small pencil urchin round out my clean up crew. I also have a 22 gal cube with a couple of clown gobies and some mollies. Currently I have a 33 gal cube cycling that will have a 20 gal sump and 326 watts of lights over it. My pet project is a 2.5 gal sesame street tank with a 2.5 gal sump that I am grooming to hopefully be a successful dwarf seashores tank. Lastly I am building a 75 gal with a 55 gal sump, and a 40 gal breeder with a 29 gal sump but those two will not be up for another year or two. I spend most of my free time just roaming around the forums here learning as much as I can.
 
Longtime freshwater keeper here making my first attempt at saltwater. I always thought that a saltwater tank would be much harder than it actually is, but I should give the props to the great advice I have received on this site for my success. I haven't lost a single fish or coral so I must not be doing anything super terrible. My tank so far is mushrooms, softies, and zoas and it will most likely stay that way. I'm also a big orchid fanatic.
 
Guess I should post too. I have been in this hobby for about 5 years but I rarely post much here.

I have a 55 gallon reef tank and an 8 gallon BioCube reef right now. The 55 is about 18 months old and the 8g is about 2 months old I think. My 8g just has a lovely green pistol shrimp in it. He's neat and comes out when I drop in shrimp pellets for him to grab. I have a sixline wrasse and two damsels in the 55.

I got several zoanthids (10). And I love em. Hoping to get more soon. I also have a couple of acans, duncans, hammers, etc.

I work for Bank of America at night hence the late hour of the post.
 
hi im tim
im 17 and im just setting up my first reef tank i have a 100g tank with a 50g sump and i am adding a 60g frag tank a 20g fuge all tied into the same system but can be seperated for independent use with the turn of a few valves.
i am running 8x54watt t5 tubes on my main untill i upgrade to halides in 4 months or so, im also running 2x24watt t5 on my sump 2x24watt t5 tubes on my fuge and 4x54watt t5 on my frag tank.
i originaly got offered the job at my lfs and have now been there just over 2 years and next year will be managing it next year (yes more money to put more in shop displays up beacuse im running out of room in my room/house)

AND YES I MAY BE SLIGHTLY ADDICTED
 
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