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01-30-2008, 07:23 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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|  New fish?
Thinking about adding a new powder blue tang, brown tang, cleanup crew and some starfish to my tank this weekend now that it is cycled. I can't wait!! I'll post some pics! _________ 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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01-30-2008, 07:29 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Well your getting ready to start yourself a whole bunch of trouble and waste some money in the process.
To start some Tangs need a big tank to be happy in, they like to swim a lot. Most need at least 125g to be happy once they grow for a few years. Second for a new tank I would only add one fish and wait about 1.5 to 2 weeks before you add another to allow the bacteria in the tank to grow so that it can handle the extra load you just added.
Slow down my friend, this is not a drag race. _________ 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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01-30-2008, 07:34 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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 scott, I can't believe it!! It took you 6 minutes to respond to that!!! I was expecting more around 1 or 2 min.! no, the only thing I am doing in the next 8 weeks is MAYBE a wet/dry and making some rock. oh, yea, buying some bulbs to collect dust for another 2 months! sorry about the thread scott i'm bored!!  | |
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01-30-2008, 07:35 PM
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| | Dragon Wrasse
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sun River,Oregon (Bend) Age: 35
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I would be careful with adding the two tangs at the same time. Especially in a newly cycled (cycling) tank. The stress of adding the two fish at the same time (along with all the other goodies) could cause the fish to be stressed and succumb to the, oh so famous, ick. I'm an impulse buyer and can't help myself sometimes, but, I've definitely paid the price. It could be just fine or, it could be costly. | |
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01-30-2008, 07:40 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by bmshehan  scott, I can't believe it!! It took you 6 minutes to respond to that!!! I was expecting more around 1 or 2 min.! | Was checking e-mail at the same time. I know how eager to are to add life but I just want to make sure you slow down and think. Just like that little one on the way  ....they will be depending on you for healthy life.  | |
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01-30-2008, 07:46 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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like i said sorry i'm bored... this is one of those things where i love to talk about it and dream... but i am very content with what i have for now... don't they say that good things come to those who wait? i do like to at least talk about the future and what i'd like to have sometime, keeps me sane while i cycle! | |
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01-30-2008, 07:49 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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lol that was funny
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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01-30-2008, 07:54 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
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Waiting for cycling is like watching water boil. Ohhh! 2 years later I still have to reign myself in from time to time.
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01-31-2008, 09:33 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by Dador Waiting for cycling is like watching water boil. Ohhh! 2 years later I still have to reign myself in from time to time. | Use time waiting to read and observe. Lots of neat things will occure in tank.
And, of course, spend lots of time here at 3Reef, reading thru past posts.
Have fun!
Good Luck. _________ 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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