My 10 gallon

Damsels R Cool · 11-30-2008, 11:27 AM

ALL PICTURES ARE ON ODD NUMBER PAGES EXCEPT FOR MY FAVORITE # (you'll figure it out when we get past page 15)

finally starting my tank thrend.

ok so here i go
My name is Dillon i'm 17 and live in west palm beach florida and i awayls loved fishing and awayls kept gold fishes since i was little. last year after keeping 2 tetras and 2 amazing gold fishes i had for 5+ years my littls sister decided she wanted to feed them while i was at school. when i got home all my fishes were dead she dumped all the food in the tank

. I go to the beach every weekend and when we moved to my current house i had an empty 10 gallon tank so i said why not (keep in mind i've awayls keeped small damsels and hermit crabs alive for weeks in a bucket or contanier when i was little anyone wanting to know it's diffrent when you want to keep them years). ok so i started planing my tank got a filter at wallmart(never again) and did my fresh water test. about a week later i went to the beach and got 5 gallons of salt water and some sand from the beach ( some people say you should'nt but it's working for me) came home put theand and water in and turned on the filter (10 gallon tank 5 gallons of water ?? wtf) worked fine for a coupple of days even had a little sand sifting crab. so the next day i filled the next half with RO water. i thaught nothing about a cycle did'nt know about it so the next week whn i went to the beach i caught about 10 white legged hermits and 14 common shore strimp did'nt test salt so my uncle loned me his salt tester thing and i saw it was low bumped it up to 1.025 and put the strimp and crabs in. everything stayed alive and i thaught ok lets go buy some fish got a YT damsel and a domineo(sp) damsel they stayed for about a week till my uncle came to fl on vacation offered to buy some more fishes so i got a blue velvet damsel (my favorite damsels not counting clowns) and a yellow chromis. he leffed and the next day the chromis died. got my first water test that day Amonia 10+ nitrates 10+ Ph 7.4 salinity was the only good thing at 1.024. a week later i came home from school and my blue velvet damsel was spinning in circles his fin that stablies him had been bitten off. he died that day the next day my domineo damsel died when i woke up so that lefed the YT damsel. so now i know my tank is still cycleing for a month (that means no more fishes) YT died a week later from pop eye and ich at the same time.

at this time i had given away my strimp to my cousin andrew (andrew android) as a welcomed addition to his 110 gallon tank. a week later with my hermit crabs alone in the tank i felt like giving up salt water for good. but some thing inside said stick with it. i had about 10 WL hermit crabs left so i gave 5 to andrew. got the water tested an came back with amonia 5 nitrates 5 p.h still 7.4 (no money for buffer) my lfs said do a water change and my Ph wold go up so i did 3 gallons (way too much)
went to the beach caught 4 BL hermits 2 sargent majors and 4 unknowns
within a week 2 of the unknownd dies so i relesed the rest into my uncles tank with his lion fish they died to. remowed WL hermits until 1 was leffed. one sargent major died and here i am about 3 weeks later with perfict water ( did a full test and came back only problem Ph at 8.0 got buffer from andrew and now it's good at 8.2) o almost forgot last tip to the beach about a week ago i caught 15 BL hermits for andrew and 6 for me along with 80+ snails i kept about 30-40 for me gave the rest to andrew.

water still testing good so i added a clown yesterday 11/29/08

tank stats as of 11/30/08

Fishes
1 sargent major (less than 1/4") going back to his home soon
1 true precula clown

Inverts
10 BL hermit crabs 30+ small snails

Corals
NONE / Comming soon

TANK AS OF 12/13/08
got my first coral yesterday a mushroom
sargent major died (he was going back to the wild)

Rock/Sand
Rock Guestmated 8-9 lbs
Sand 2" sand bed

12/21/08
moved entire tank because stand was breaking

12/23/08
changed the rocks put in new base rock and took out all old rock except the one with the mushroom

Damsels R Cool · 11-30-2008, 11:27 AM

These are pictures of the tank form the day it started in order

the day i went to get my saltwater at the beach

the day i got the hermit crabs and strimp

first fishes

crabs

damsels R cool

full tank shot 8/18/08

full tank shot with good camera

flash

new fishes that died in 4 weeks

Damsels R Cool · 11-30-2008, 11:28 AM

My clown

first coral mushroom

mushroom

snails

mushroom

snail

small strimp on mushroom

snail

FTS

mangrove

my clown cinnamen

Blue Leggled Hermit

Damsels R Cool · 11-30-2008, 11:28 AM

FTS Tank moved

FTS

new filter 280 GPH

Hermit crab shells

FTS NEW STUFF

green Ricordea mushroom

Mexican Turbo

The new clown

FTS

Damsels R Cool · 11-30-2008, 11:29 AM

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JohnFritts · 11-30-2008, 11:36 AM

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j/k,
hehe - nice to finally see a thread for ya! Pop some pix and kick back.

Damsels R Cool · 11-30-2008, 12:42 PM

i'm going to take pictures hopefully today so you guys could see the difference in the tank

PharmrJohn · 11-30-2008, 01:38 PM

The velvet damsel is one of my favorites as well. I am thinking about getting one of those if I ever see one at the LFS. So far, in six months, at three different LFSs, I have struck out.

JohnnyBoy · 11-30-2008, 01:55 PM

Looking really nice!

fishoholic · 11-30-2008, 04:33 PM

Sounds like the death tank j/k. Stick with it and go slow. I try to wait at least a month between fish, so I don't stress out the tanks system.

11-30-2008, 11:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
Damsels R Cool Teardrop Maxima Clam Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greenacers,Florida Age: 19 Posts: 830 Skin: Dark Karma: 3650	My 10 gallon Tons of PICTURES ALL PICTURES ARE ON ODD NUMBER PAGES EXCEPT FOR MY FAVORITE # (you'll figure it out when we get past page 15) finally starting my tank thrend. ok so here i go My name is Dillon i'm 17 and live in west palm beach florida and i awayls loved fishing and awayls kept gold fishes since i was little. last year after keeping 2 tetras and 2 amazing gold fishes i had for 5+ years my littls sister decided she wanted to feed them while i was at school. when i got home all my fishes were dead she dumped all the food in the tank . I go to the beach every weekend and when we moved to my current house i had an empty 10 gallon tank so i said why not (keep in mind i've awayls keeped small damsels and hermit crabs alive for weeks in a bucket or contanier when i was little anyone wanting to know it's diffrent when you want to keep them years). ok so i started planing my tank got a filter at wallmart(never again) and did my fresh water test. about a week later i went to the beach and got 5 gallons of salt water and some sand from the beach ( some people say you should'nt but it's working for me) came home put theand and water in and turned on the filter (10 gallon tank 5 gallons of water ?? wtf) worked fine for a coupple of days even had a little sand sifting crab. so the next day i filled the next half with RO water. i thaught nothing about a cycle did'nt know about it so the next week whn i went to the beach i caught about 10 white legged hermits and 14 common shore strimp did'nt test salt so my uncle loned me his salt tester thing and i saw it was low bumped it up to 1.025 and put the strimp and crabs in. everything stayed alive and i thaught ok lets go buy some fish got a YT damsel and a domineo(sp) damsel they stayed for about a week till my uncle came to fl on vacation offered to buy some more fishes so i got a blue velvet damsel (my favorite damsels not counting clowns) and a yellow chromis. he leffed and the next day the chromis died. got my first water test that day Amonia 10+ nitrates 10+ Ph 7.4 salinity was the only good thing at 1.024. a week later i came home from school and my blue velvet damsel was spinning in circles his fin that stablies him had been bitten off. he died that day the next day my domineo damsel died when i woke up so that lefed the YT damsel. so now i know my tank is still cycleing for a month (that means no more fishes) YT died a week later from pop eye and ich at the same time. at this time i had given away my strimp to my cousin andrew (andrew android) as a welcomed addition to his 110 gallon tank. a week later with my hermit crabs alone in the tank i felt like giving up salt water for good. but some thing inside said stick with it. i had about 10 WL hermit crabs left so i gave 5 to andrew. got the water tested an came back with amonia 5 nitrates 5 p.h still 7.4 (no money for buffer) my lfs said do a water change and my Ph wold go up so i did 3 gallons (way too much) went to the beach caught 4 BL hermits 2 sargent majors and 4 unknowns within a week 2 of the unknownd dies so i relesed the rest into my uncles tank with his lion fish they died to. remowed WL hermits until 1 was leffed. one sargent major died and here i am about 3 weeks later with perfict water ( did a full test and came back only problem Ph at 8.0 got buffer from andrew and now it's good at 8.2) o almost forgot last tip to the beach about a week ago i caught 15 BL hermits for andrew and 6 for me along with 80+ snails i kept about 30-40 for me gave the rest to andrew. water still testing good so i added a clown yesterday 11/29/08 tank stats as of 11/30/08 Fishes 1 sargent major (less than 1/4") going back to his home soon 1 true precula clown Inverts 10 BL hermit crabs 30+ small snails Corals NONE / Comming soon TANK AS OF 12/13/08 got my first coral yesterday a mushroom sargent major died (he was going back to the wild) Rock/Sand Rock Guestmated 8-9 lbs Sand 2" sand bed 12/21/08 moved entire tank because stand was breaking 12/23/08 changed the rocks put in new base rock and took out all old rock except the one with the mushroom _________ ~~~10 Gallon~~~ Born On: 8/2/08 Eververything could'nt fit in Sig http://www.3reef.com/forums/show-off...lon-55107.html ACTION IS REQUIRED TO BRING DREAMS TO LIFE Last edited by Damsels R Cool; 02-06-2009 at 06:10 PM.

11-30-2008, 11:27 AM	#2 (permalink)
Damsels R Cool Teardrop Maxima Clam Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greenacers,Florida Age: 19 Posts: 830 Skin: Dark Karma: 3650	These are pictures of the tank form the day it started in order the day i went to get my saltwater at the beach the day i got the hermit crabs and strimp first fishes crabs damsels R cool full tank shot 8/18/08 full tank shot with good camera flash flash new fishes that died in 4 weeks Last edited by Damsels R Cool; 11-30-2008 at 12:40 PM.

11-30-2008, 11:28 AM	#3 (permalink)
Damsels R Cool Teardrop Maxima Clam Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greenacers,Florida Age: 19 Posts: 830 Skin: Dark Karma: 3650	New pics My clown first coral mushroom mushroom snails mushroom snail small strimp on mushroom snail FTS mangrove my clown cinnamen Blue Leggled Hermit Last edited by Damsels R Cool; 12-13-2008 at 06:47 PM.

11-30-2008, 11:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
Damsels R Cool Teardrop Maxima Clam Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greenacers,Florida Age: 19 Posts: 830 Skin: Dark Karma: 3650	FTS Tank moved FTS new filter 280 GPH Hermit crab shells FTS NEW STUFF green Ricordea mushroom Mexican Turbo The new clown FTS Last edited by Damsels R Cool; 01-03-2009 at 09:11 PM.

11-30-2008, 01:38 PM	#8 (permalink)
PharmrJohn Giant Squid Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Shelton, Washington Age: 46 Posts: 4,595 Skin: Mint Karma: 25954	The velvet damsel is one of my favorites as well. I am thinking about getting one of those if I ever see one at the LFS. So far, in six months, at three different LFSs, I have struck out. _________ 90g HW: 20g Sump/Fuge, ETSS PSw/Mag9.5, CPR OF/Rio 2100 RTN, 3K3 1K4 PH's(4200GPH ttl flow), 300W htr, Gnd Prb, Denitrator, Tek 8x54W T5. Fish: Hippo Tang, Hmbg, Y-T, Ylw dmsls, Coral Beauty, 8 Line Wrasse. Inverts: HC, CBS, P-mnt shrmp x2, Sandstar, Sea Apple. CUC: 130 D. Crth/35 F. Crth/30 Lg Nrts/25 Vibex/4 Turbos Corals: Frgspwn x2, Kenya Tree, Doughnut Coral, GSP, Zoas x2, Shroom rocks x2, Lobo Brain, Turbinaria, Mshrm Lthr, Fngr Lthr Other: 145# LR, 1-2" LS DOB 5/7/08 [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

11-30-2008, 11:29 AM	#5 (permalink)
Damsels R Cool Teardrop Maxima Clam Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greenacers,Florida Age: 19 Posts: 830 Skin: Dark Karma: 3650	*reserved

11-30-2008, 11:36 AM	#6 (permalink)
JohnFritts Banned Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: NorthWest, Arkansas Posts: 442 Skin: Mint Karma: 1499	(RESERVED) j/k, hehe - nice to finally see a thread for ya! Pop some pix and kick back.

11-30-2008, 12:42 PM	#7 (permalink)
Damsels R Cool Teardrop Maxima Clam Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greenacers,Florida Age: 19 Posts: 830 Skin: Dark Karma: 3650	i'm going to take pictures hopefully today so you guys could see the difference in the tank

11-30-2008, 01:55 PM	#9 (permalink)
JohnnyBoy Purple Spiny Lobster Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Miami, Florida Age: 27 Posts: 476 Skin: Mint Karma: 2045	Looking really nice! _________ 75g Reef - 10g Mini reef - 48g Custom frag system http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...me/newsig3.jpg *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!*

11-30-2008, 04:33 PM	#10 (permalink)
fishoholic Purple Spiny Lobster Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Albuquerque NM Age: 31 Posts: 453 Skin: Mint Karma: 1975	Sounds like the death tank j/k. Stick with it and go slow. I try to wait at least a month between fish, so I don't stress out the tanks system. _________ fishoholics-125-build-thread- 125gal 180lbs LR 3" DSB , Reefmaster 200 fuge,mag 9.5, 3-MJ 1200 on natural wave timer, 2-koralia #4, 1-koralia #3 , 18W turbo twist UV,outer orbit light fixture 3-250w MH, 8-36"T-5, 24 LED, Reefkeeper-2 ph-probe,temp probe,DIY denitrator coil,stand,&canopy

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