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05-27-2008, 02:04 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 25
Posts: 61
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Putting something that you dont know about from the ocean into the tank this includes crabs, snails oh heck anything directly from the ocean that you are not positive about! | 
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05-27-2008, 02:13 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: alabama Age: 31
Posts: 658
 
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how bout water changes? | |
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05-27-2008, 02:58 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Feather Duster
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Chattanooga, TN
Posts: 231
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Here's one from a beginner.
Buying a long tentacle anemone for a 20g tank and then realizing they get friggin huge! Not much room left for corals in the future. Bummer.
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]55 G, with 40lbs LR, 40lbs live sand, Tomato clown, Rabbitfish, Chromis, Aussie Duncan, Frogspawn, zoas, blastomussa wellsi, skunk cleaner shrimp, 4 astrea snails, 3 turbo, 12 hermits, 216wt T5HO lighting, Maxijet 600 (modified), Koralia 1, Emporer 280 filter. AquaC Remora Pro Skimmer. Born from my 20g on 6/8/08. Always a work in progress. | |
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05-27-2008, 03:06 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 763
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Originally Posted by tarheel  Here's one from a beginner.
Buying a long tentacle anemone for a 20g tank and then realizing they get friggin huge! Not much room left for corals in the future. Bummer. | LoL! Nope not unless in a few months you think it has settled and won't roam and sting your corals on the way. _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Sand Star, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, 2 Rose BTAs  | |
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05-27-2008, 05:22 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
Posts: 2,113
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Not joining 3reef  I suck up to alot of people | |
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05-27-2008, 06:52 PM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Bikers are a dying breed!
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,967
   
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Originally Posted by omard 1. Overfeeding
2. Failure to test the water quality frequently enough.
3. Failure to change out light bulbs on regular basis.
4. Incompatible stocking.
5. Overstocking.
6. Impatience.
7. Impulse buying.
8. Insufficient research in general.
9. Not recognizing importance of light (too much, too little).
10. Not recognizing importance of flow (too much, too little) | 1, 6 & 7 _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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05-28-2008, 08:53 AM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,777
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Originally Posted by omard Recently saw list of "5 Cardinal Sins Of A Marine Aquarist" --- Thought it needed expanding...based on personal experience and on many of the recurring posts we have seen here...
1. Overfeeding
2. Failure to test the water quality frequently enough.
3. Failure to change out light bulbs on regular basis.
4. Incompatible stocking.
5. Overstocking.
6. Impatience.
7. Impulse buying.
8. Insufficient research in general.
9. Not recognizing importance of light (too much, too little).
10. Not recognizing importance of flow (too much, too little).
Please add to if you can think of others...Maybe we can shoot for "20" --(plenty more "sin" out there I am sure.  ) |
Great! Expanded List...
1. Overfeeding
2. Failure to test the water quality frequently enough.
3. Failure to change out light bulbs on regular basis.
4. Incompatible stocking.
5. Overstocking.
6. Impatience.
7. Impulse buying.
8. Insufficient research in general.
9. Not recognizing importance of light (too much, too little).
10. Not recognizing importance of flow (too much, too little).
11. Deep sand beds in the main tank (Bogie)
12. Not doing maintenance on hardware, I.E. not servicing your pumps and skimmers or changing out filtration pads, etc. (Iraf)
13. Improper diet (BluePhish)
14. No quarantine. (BluePhish)
15. Using windex on glass. (BluePhish)
16. Using supplements without testing. (BluePhish)
17. Using lid on tank. (fishpoop)
18. Not asking the wife before you spend the money on a new setup....(BillyD)
19. Using tap water. (Brandon1023)
20. Not purchasing a proper Ro/Di unit before purchasing corals/fish. (WildReef)
21. Adding creatures directly from ocean without research. (chalmies19832002)
22. Inadequate water changes. (wareagle35031)
23. Buying a long tentacle anemone for a 20g tank. (tarheel)
24. Not joining 3reef (aquaboy)
25. 1, 6 & 7 (Otty)
----Now that is allot of Sin!!!
Feel free to add to list anytime.
Think I will add...
26. Not listening to "Tangser"...  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott")
Last edited by omard; 08-07-2008 at 04:54 PM.
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08-07-2008, 04:50 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,777
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Quote:
Originally Posted by omard Recently saw list of "5 Cardinal Sins Of A Marine Aquarist" --- Thought it needed expanding...based on personal experience and on many of the recurring posts we have seen here...
1. Overfeeding
2. Failure to test the water quality frequently enough.
3. Failure to change out light bulbs on regular basis.
4. Incompatible stocking.
5. Overstocking.
6. Impatience.
7. Impulse buying.
8. Insufficient research in general.
9. Not recognizing importance of light (too much, too little).
10. Not recognizing importance of flow (too much, too little).
Please add to if you can think of others...Maybe we can shoot for "20" --(plenty more "sin" out there I am sure. ) | Quote:
Great! Expanded List...
1. Overfeeding
2. Failure to test the water quality frequently enough.
3. Failure to change out light bulbs on regular basis.
4. Incompatible stocking.
5. Overstocking.
6. Impatience.
7. Impulse buying.
8. Insufficient research in general.
9. Not recognizing importance of light (too much, too little).
10. Not recognizing importance of flow (too much, too little).
11. Deep sand beds in the main tank (Bogie)
12. Not doing maintenance on hardware, I.E. not servicing your pumps and skimmers or changing out filtration pads, etc. (Iraf)
13. Improper diet (BluePhish)
14. No quarantine. (BluePhish)
15. Using windex on glass. (BluePhish)
16. Using supplements without testing. (BluePhish)
17. Using lid on tank. (fishpoop)
18. Not asking the wife before you spend the money on a new setup....(BillyD)
19. Using tap water. (Brandon1023)
20. Not purchasing a proper Ro/Di unit before purchasing corals/fish. (WildReef)
21. Adding creatures directly from ocean without research. (chalmies19832002)
22. Inadequate water changes. (wareagle35031)
23. Buying a long tentacle anemone for a 20g tank. (tarheel)
24. Not joining 3reef (aquaboy)
25. 1, 6 & 7 (Otty)
----Now that is allot of Sin!!!
Feel free to add to list anytime.
Think I will add...
26. Not listening to "Tangster" (OmarD)
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Time to revisit list...
another:
27. "...Putting full faith in a "digital" anything...sensor, probe, thermometer, etc..." 
Any other new ones someone might want to add....????
(Am shooting for " 50 Deadly Sins" now...if there are that many  )
Last edited by omard; 08-07-2008 at 04:56 PM.
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08-07-2008, 05:10 PM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Dragon Wrasse
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Shelton, Washington Age: 44
Posts: 2,184
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Adding used hardware to water and powering up without inspecting cord.   _________ 90g HW: 20g Sump, ETSS PSw/Mag9, CPR OF/Rio 2100 RTN, MJ AC 2K3 PH's (2800GPH ttl flow), 300W htr, Gnd Prb, Denitrator, UV, PCs: 2x65,4x55 Fish: Ylw Tang, LM Blenny, Hmbg, Y-T, Ylw dmsls, Mrn Clown, Coral Beauty, Red Crs Wrsse. Inverts: Snls/HCs, CBS, P-mnt shrmp x2, Sandstar, Condy Anen, Tbe Wrm, Sea Apple. Frags: Frgspwn, Kenya Tree. Corals: Doughnut Coral, GSP, Zoos, Shrooms, Lobo Brain, Turbinaria, Mshrm Lthr, Fngr Lthr. Other: 127# LR, 1-2" LS DOB 5/7/08  | |
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08-07-2008, 05:15 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,777
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pharmrjohn Adding used hardware to water and powering up without inspecting cord. | That would be #28. | |
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