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02-22-2008, 02:59 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Central Florida Age: 34
Posts: 91
Karma: 12
 |  1st SW Tank
SW Addiction here I come!!!
Off to the lfs after work for LS/LR and water. (and a test kit and a power head)
It's cycle time.... wish me luck! Lots of pics (and questions) to follow....
Any advice for my first endeavor? Other than go slow (VERY SLOW) and to keep an eye on it?
Lights? Temp? Etc.?
TIA
-Mike | 
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02-22-2008, 03:02 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
Posts: 955
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Welcome to the 3reef
you dont need to get lights going until the cycle is about finnished.
temp 77-79.
How big is your tank? _________ 
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
Fish-3
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02-22-2008, 03:14 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Central Florida Age: 34
Posts: 91
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Its about 37 gallons, just gonna be sand and rocks, very few fish and maybe a few cleaners | |
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02-22-2008, 03:15 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
Posts: 4,932
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Welcome aboard mate, to biggy back on what waste has said already, do alot of research and ask alot of Q's. Plan ahead as to what you want to keep in the tank and how to take care of it. Remember, the only stupid Q that you can ask, is the one that you dont ask. Good luck my follow Floridian and post some pics  Luna _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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02-22-2008, 03:30 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Central Florida Age: 34
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I sure appreciate it. I've been reading everything I can on this site (and others) although with the knowledge, responses and attitudes here I already don't go anywhere else. 3Reef is great!
I'll have pics up asap. | |
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02-22-2008, 04:22 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 24
Posts: 1,042
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Welcome and good luck!!!!
GO SLOW... I know you already said you were but let me be the first of 10,000,000,000,000 times that will be reiterated to you on this site. Can't really hear it enough, I guess!!
Hope everything goes good!!! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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02-22-2008, 05:36 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,778
 
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To 3Reef!!! So it begins!
Good for you.
Sounds like you have been doing your homework.
Will look forward to seeing how your system progresses.
Lets see pic of tank and rock for a start.
Congrats! _________ 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") | |
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02-22-2008, 07:49 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
Posts: 3,532
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Congrats on your new tank!!!!!!! Luckily you have found this site from the beginning of your saltwater adventure....It will make the road quite a bit smoother.... _________ My Tank Thread...... EST. 10/30/07 5.5 gal, 72watt's of pc's, rio skimmer, hob rated at 40 gal, stealth heater, b/w aussie clown, emerald crab, turbo, bumble bee, astrea, and nassarius snails, aussie open brain, pink birdsnest, wallhammer, multiple acro's, numerous monti's, zoa's, palys, ppd's, duncans, mint gsp's, reg gsp's, blue clove polyps, grn bali slimer, and tons of ppl sponges. | |
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02-22-2008, 07:55 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Central Florida Age: 34
Posts: 91
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Ok, LS/LR in, water mixed and added. There is a little foam buildup on the top of the water... nothing to worry about? | |
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02-22-2008, 08:01 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,833
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Welcome to 3reef. Just sit back and let her run, Mother Nature will do her work and you will have many year of enjoyment out of it. _________ 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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