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03-03-2008, 04:34 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Ontario/Canada
Posts: 73
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Little background. Back in mid 80's had 65 g tank. Lion fish, big orange star fish and big puffer. No live rock, under gravel filter and one fan coral. Wow was I green. Looked great for 3 or so months and then total catastrophe. No internet at time, no real time for this type of hobby, and did not educate self to hobby.
Fast forward.
Cooked about 70 lb's rock in 29 g tank for a year. Some said too much patience. Went through many hardware situations but came out with critters and some awesome rock.
Now have 50 g tank drilled for overflow. 23 g refugium/sump setup working and in further R&D. Tunze Nano 9002 Skimmer, Koralia (4) of various sizes, and MD 950 return pump. Will be purchasing Tunze Osmolator for top off this coming weekend.
Starting mangrove in fuge with other plants for filtration and such.
Will be using a programmable controller for all functions such as to control 300 and 200 watt heaters, lighting and motor speed for return pump and Koralia's.
Have had nice pink urchin for about 6 months now, and crab that came with rock purchased from a buddy. No substrate in new main tank.
Lighting: 4-39 Watt T5 18k and 2-39 Watt Actinic.
18k 24 Watt and Actinic 24 Watt in Fug/Sump
New leather and brain in last two weeks. They look great IMO.
Parameters:
Nitrates- below 5ppm
PH- 8.2 8.4
Phosphates- my kit says 0 but then close enough!
Calcium- 460 usually
Add kalkwasser with top off
Also use Purple Up as directed.
This setup is now 3 and a half weeks old and about 110 lb's rock in main tank.
Every one is telling me to get a fish.
Any and all reflections will be appreciated. | 
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03-03-2008, 04:40 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Welcome to 3reef. You need to test your ALK, and Magnisum with all the others. you keep all of these rock solid and you won't need to put purple up in the tank, mother nature will do it for you. If you put any fish in just do it slowly. 1 every 1.5 to 2 weeks to allow the tank to stabilize. _________ 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 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | 
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03-03-2008, 05:21 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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To 3Reef!!! Salutations! Glad to see you found way here!
Sounds like a great fish ready tank! 
Get down to LFS and get some. Let us see some pics after you do.
Scott _________ 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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03-03-2008, 05:24 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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Ditto on what Otty said. _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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03-03-2008, 05:25 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
Posts: 3,118
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Welcome to 3Reef>>>>>>
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 australian black perc clown ,1 porcelain crab, , 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, neon grn bali slimer acro, purple acro, millipora's, feather duster, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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03-03-2008, 05:34 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Ontario/Canada
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Thanx to all. | |
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03-03-2008, 05:41 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Beverly Hills, MI Age: 17
Posts: 757
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welcome glad to see your getting back into it | |
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03-03-2008, 05:52 PM
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| | Hammer Head Shark
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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Welcome to 3reef!  You can do it!!!!! show us some pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
R.I.P. Big Blue 12/02-10/22//07
p.s. I'm a woman! 
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03-03-2008, 06:00 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Southeast Washington
Posts: 145
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Welcome to 3reef.
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110 gallon acrylic with compact flourescent/actinic
55 gallon for sump/fuge
about 40 lbs of live rock (more to come)
ssb in tank, dsb in fuge | |
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03-04-2008, 12:12 AM
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| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
Posts: 1,759
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welcome
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just one little sps frag tank with lots of goodies | |
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