Alright Newbies--am I supposed to give you Reading Lessons? GIVE ME A BREAK!!! I take a long furlough and every new recruit is asking questions I answered years ago. Well LISTEN UP and FALL IN and I will educate your Newie Butts!! :deadhorse1:
For those of you that haven't found the stickies at the top of this forum or realize we do have a search button it is time to SHAPE UP. I know that entering into this hobby is a somewhat challenging experience. It is not like keeping goldfish. Spending big bucks on a tank, lighting, sumps, skimmers and all the other things needed for a reef tank can make the newcomer go into shock. When someone tells you that the colored sand you always used for the guppies just doesn't cut it, wallet spasms occur.
My first tip to the new reefer is to sell the spouse and kids into slavery. That gives one the $$$'s to purchase the tons of live rock and sand that you will eventually need. I hear they are giving some good prices for family members in Yemen.
The key to getting a sucessful reef tank established is good equipment and buying good, natural biological filtration. Before one even comtemplates getting livestock you must have a stable tank. That takes time and one of the worst traint in the hobby is being impatient, It takes weeks before one can stock fish and much longer to add corals.
Over the next couple of weeks I'll go over the basics and try to dispell some of the false ideas, so often seen on the NTTH forum.
Ok, Fall Out and for heavens sake feed those Oscars.
For those of you that haven't found the stickies at the top of this forum or realize we do have a search button it is time to SHAPE UP. I know that entering into this hobby is a somewhat challenging experience. It is not like keeping goldfish. Spending big bucks on a tank, lighting, sumps, skimmers and all the other things needed for a reef tank can make the newcomer go into shock. When someone tells you that the colored sand you always used for the guppies just doesn't cut it, wallet spasms occur.
My first tip to the new reefer is to sell the spouse and kids into slavery. That gives one the $$$'s to purchase the tons of live rock and sand that you will eventually need. I hear they are giving some good prices for family members in Yemen.
The key to getting a sucessful reef tank established is good equipment and buying good, natural biological filtration. Before one even comtemplates getting livestock you must have a stable tank. That takes time and one of the worst traint in the hobby is being impatient, It takes weeks before one can stock fish and much longer to add corals.
Over the next couple of weeks I'll go over the basics and try to dispell some of the false ideas, so often seen on the NTTH forum.
Ok, Fall Out and for heavens sake feed those Oscars.
