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01-12-2008, 06:39 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2008
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 |  Hello! New to the aquarium world
I just wanted to say hello to everyone. I'm new to this board and also new to the saltwater world. Actually new to the fishtank world completely as I've never owned a fish.
I found a good deal (I think) on a 72 gallon curved tank with a painted pine stand. The guy's asking $325 so I figured this would be a good time to try out a salt water tank. The tank comes with rocks, filter etc, but it was a freshwater tank that housed pirhana's so I'm thinking the only thing I can use is the tank which is fine with me; I'd rather start from scratch anyway.
The plan is to start with fish and maybe get into a little coral when I can afford to buy enough live rock to support it. My girlfriend wants a "Nemo fish" whatever that is and I'm leaning toward a puffer. Something tells me the puffer's gonna eat the "Nemo fish" which is fine with me but I'll have to do a little research on that to keep the GF happy. Unfortunately the fish I'm interested in include sharks, puffers, stingrays and octopus which seem to be members of the "we don't get along well with others club". She seems to like the flashy bright colored ones so we may end up with 2 tanks if this one goes well. One thing's for sure I'll be getting an octopus even if it requires it's own tank.
Well, I probably won't post much for a while because I'll be spending most of my time doing research but thought I'd say Hi. If into modified Subaru's, some of you may know me from the IWSTI.com forum. | 
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01-12-2008, 06:43 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Welcome to 3Reef>>>>>> | |
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01-12-2008, 06:44 PM
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| | Bikers are a dying breed!
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Welcome to 3reef and the hobby. _________ 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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01-12-2008, 06:46 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 46
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|  Welcome.
First of all welcome!
You will find a ton of info here. The first thing you'll learn here is TAKE IT SLOOOOOWWWWW.  Your right about the puffer eating the clown fish. Check out the posts here on starting a new tank. If you plan on adding coral someday the fish you buy today will need to be reef compatible or you'll be spending a lot of money feeding your fish coral.
Good Luck!
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180 Gallon Reef, 150 lbs of LR and 4" LS. 4-175w 10k MH. 8-110 W actinic VHO, 2 Wave2K, LifeReef Skimmer . A 90 gal sump, Top-Off. 2Mag 9.5 return, Life Reef CR LCR-1. 1 Cin Clown, Bub coral, Xenia, Purp Tang, Yellow Tang, Pogoda, 4 Gobies, Niger Trigger, Angel, Brittle Star | |
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01-12-2008, 06:47 PM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Sharks, rays, and octo's need some intensive care 
best to start with some easier to keep reef safe fish such as clownfish damsels chromis and what not......then if you decide to add coral you will be fine. Many puffers may need a bigger tank than a 72 gallon.
same with sharks and rays, they need like 250 gals minimum. <- Period
BTW, welcome to 3reef!
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01-12-2008, 06:50 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Welcome to 3reef and the hobby...You will find a wealth of info and help here....  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html
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01-12-2008, 07:12 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Thank guys, If this tank goes well I may get a bigger tank. Not sure when though because I'm looking at buying a house in a year or so and don't want deal with moving a 200gal tank and/or risk losing a HUGE investment in fish. I'll start with some "wussy" fish to keep the GF happy and probably get another 70ish gal tank for an octopus or something more intriguing than a clownfish.
I'm getting the tank next weekend so I've got about 2 months to research, decide on fish and figure out what direction I want to take with the tank. If I had my way I'd get an octopus and a puffer and feed it Nemo for lunch  but my GF won't have it. | |
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01-12-2008, 07:14 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Oh and by the way.. Thats a awesome site for subaru's.... | |
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01-12-2008, 07:15 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Originally Posted by baugherb  Oh and by the way.. Thats a awesome site for subaru's.... | 
I don't know why, but I find it funny reading people's signatures on this site because it's all aquarium stuff. I'm used to reading lists of tubos, hp and suspension mods. Car stuff seems more natural to me, maybe I'll list my mods on this site too 
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01-12-2008, 07:58 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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To 3Reef!!! Salutations! Glad to see you found way here!
Looks like you are off to a great start.
Lots of help available here at 3Reef when you think you need it.
Good Luck. Have Fun! _________ 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..."
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