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10-11-2008, 12:47 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Highland Illinois
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 |  Picking up where son left off
I thought I would say hello, my son has been keeping reef aquariums for almost 3 years now, he has sort of fallen off the wagon for the moment (hit 20 years old).
My wife and I are going to attempt to keep the tank rolling along as best as we can, hopefully the son will want to "rejoin" the tank craze after a time. The tank he has set up is a 75 gallon with a 20 gallon long for a sump, about 110 lbs. of live rock with 440 watt ho (not sure if right term) lamps (8 bulb). He has a variety of types of fish from a clown to a Hawaiian Hog fish (according to him), purple tipped anomea a few hard corals he started off about 3 months ago, a huge leather (really 2 but basically joined at the base).
Anyway I will be spending a lot of time reading from the forums looking for tips and suggestions on care and maintenance since most of my knowlegde is happen stance in listening to him, hopefully we learn enough fast enough not to crash the whole works, thanks for reading and if have suggested threads to read up let me know, thanks again. | 
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10-11-2008, 12:52 PM
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| | Pajama Cardinal
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Chesterfield, VA Age: 22
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hi im sure he will or atleast he will downgrade. very few people quit and never start back up its like smoking except theres no fish patch
edit: i don't mean to discourage the forum member that recently quit
edit for the edit: smoking that is
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Go quiet: fish tanks are meant to be seen not heard.
26 bow; 1 orange tail damsel, purple psuedochromis, cleanershrimp; gsp and some zoas that escaped from my 90
Last edited by sostoudt; 10-11-2008 at 01:04 PM.
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10-11-2008, 02:58 PM
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| | Wobbegong Shark
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Shelton, Washington Age: 45
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Yeah.....you are in a unique position where you have a really good set up. Nice and solid. A 75/20 is a good place to start. So get used to doing your tests. Since it is set up, the NH4 and NO2 are likely to be fine. Just stay on top of NO3, pH, dKH, Ca, Mg and PO4. If the 20 long has algae in it, the NO3 and PO4 are likely taken care of. Then you just have to pay attention to the dKH (ALK), Ca and Mg. This is extremely important. I want you to read the following article and familiarize yourself with the concept. A Simplified Guide to the Relationship Between Calcium, Alkalinity, Magnesium and pH by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com
First off, do a whole round of tests and get used to that. Keep a log (or start a diary here on the forum) to chronicle your efforts. We members can then look at what you are doing in one thread and let you know what it good, bad or ugly.
So keep it up and welcome to the wonderful world of SW. Soon you too will be hopelessly hooked, spending way too many hours on this forum and with your new found hobby.
Welcome to 3reef.......Peace.......John. _________ 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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10-11-2008, 04:43 PM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dallas
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Must have pics! | 
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10-11-2008, 05:07 PM
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| | I want to go fishing!
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Miami, Florida Age: 25
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Hello and welcome aboard  _________ 75g Reef - 10g Mini reef - 48g Custom frag system  If You Sometimes Feel A Little Useless, Offended, or depressed.... Always Remeber that YOU were once the fastest and most victorious little sperm out of millions! | |
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10-12-2008, 10:18 AM
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| | Fire Goby
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Garden Creek,VA
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Howdy! and welcome to 3Reef | |
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10-12-2008, 10:38 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 112
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Welcome, i'm fairly new myself! 
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56 Gallon Reef Tank- 2 Percula Clownfish, Reef Chromis, Blue Caribbean Tang, Royal Gamma, Spanish Hogfish, Pygmy Angelfish
30 Gallon Reef Tank (Quarantine)- Six Line Wrasse
30 Gallon Reef Tank #2- Six Line Wrasse
75 Gallon Tank- Retired
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10-12-2008, 07:14 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Lebanon ME Age: 32
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Welcome I havent been here long either but the folks here sure are great! | |
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10-13-2008, 01:26 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 23
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Welcome to 3reef RoGames! _________ Kibbles and bits and bits and bites, and bacon and bits and kibbles and bits...... NOT reef safe  | |
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