Newbies FTS thread!
 

Ok so I have been thinking about starting this thread for quite a long time now so thought its about time :D

Anyway so there's all sort of threads with experienced reefers showing their wonderful DTs and systems and us, newbies, are left with tanks, wondering when we will reach their awesomeness.

So, nothing is better than showing off new tanks to both new and experienced reefers/salties, get criticized or admired, share horror stories and such.

After all, we are the reefers/salties of next generation :)

Some rules that I thought of to keep this thread fun :)

1. Tank should be less than a year
2. This thread is for newbies FTS and ONLY for newbies FTS.
3. Experienced reefers are more than welcome to judge, criticize, flame, admire, post suggestions and so on. Alongside, they are also welcome to show off their DTs/systems to inspire or to explain stuffs :)
4. Please no personal insult :)

I hope this thread will be lively :)

Cheers :mrgreen:

So here my mixed reef tank :)

Age: 4 months 19 days as of today.

http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...1-13143043.jpg

How do you define "newbie" ? :-)

Haha. I knew you would ask something like that ;) I was thinking of putting something like "kien cannot show off his DT over here" ;) JK :mrgreen:

Well newbie is just newbie; no definition required I guess. But for official purpose,

"Someone who has recently (within a year at max) been mesmerized by the wonderful world of marine lives and started the journey into saltwater hobby and looks around for inspiration like Kien's tank, hoping to end up with something awesome"

That should put up the image right? :mrgreen:

I'd define "Newbie"as someone who has been in the hobby for less than a year because generally speaking after a yr you should sort of know what your doing

Ah our definition matches :D

Justified! :mrgreen:

I've been in hobby 2 years but tanks only 8 months old. Does that count

i didnt learn much my in my first 9 yrs can i still join the cool kids club???

?????????? Didn't you grow up in Newfoundland. Last I checked saltwater ran through your veins

No, that's Screech.

Tank: 30g cube 15.5L X 23.5W X 18T
Skimmer: Aquatic life
Lighting: Ecoxotic Panorama Marine LED's 2x 24inch
Flow: 1 Hydor Koralia Evolution Powerhead (240 GPH) and Ecotech Marine VorTech MP10w ES Water Pump
Return Pump: Sedra KSP-1000 Water pump
RO: installed by Culligan water (soon to get an RO unit)
Temperature control: Marineland 150 W
Reactors: Phosphate and carbon (150 Twolittlefishes)

http://s1287.beta.photobucket.com/us...tml?sort=3&o=0

"Experienced reefers are more than welcome to judge, criticize, flame, admire, post suggestions and so on. Alongside, they are also welcome to show off their DTs/systems to inspire or to explain stuffs"

So, at the end of the day, everyone is welcome :)

Its just that while in experienced reefers thread, we feel kinda embarrassed posting our DT so this one just relaxes that :D

Looks like you were inspired by finding nemo ;) or is it just a coincidence that you timelap matches with that ;)

Plus you are MVP. How can I say no to you :razz:

Damn newbs :wink:

yup, me and the gf started our first tank when finding nemo came out....she hated my cichlids lol

Well there's nothing to love about cichlids. They are just too aggressive and not in a pretty way LOL

No offence to those who are cichlid fans :) :mrgreen:

One of the things I like about this forum is while there are some real elitist and people who are anti nano on the forums most here are helpful and not overly critical.

When I first started out I visited so many forums and post on some the general sentiment is Nano reefers are not welcome and noobs are definitely not welcome unless starting a full sized tank.

Made it real tough for guys like me first starting out then my friend who got me into SW told me about this site and one other(nano reef forums an American site) and I feel like I am accepted and am learning as I go along.

Nothing worse than posting a question/idea or picture and getting flamed for it.

Thank you for being there Canreef

I know the feeling :)

I think as long as it holds water, it's a tank. In fact, some of our more "elite" members don't even have tanks. Go figure. :razz:

Yup seen a few Rubbermaid frag tanks lol

75 gallon cube
 

Here is my tank little over two weeks old

Lots growing:biggrin:

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http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...BA2546F985.jpg

My tank been going since mid august

33 gallon

Egg crate on top to stop my cats from drinking the salt water they love it for some reason

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1/IMG_0910.jpg

Well I still think I'm a newb. At least at taking pics lol

So the tanks 8 months old. Very simple set up. 100 micron filter pad changed daily. Manual top off. Mce 600 skimmer. About 20lbs rubble in sump. Prodibio and just started turf scrubber. Weekly waterchange. About 35 pieces sps. A couple acans and blastos. Mp10 and a radion

http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...BF867608BC.jpg

I'll play.

165Gal display built by concept. Starphire on three sides inc. starphire eurobrace. Skimz skimmer compliments of Dave, echo tech mp40's, Apex, AI Sol lights, mechanical ATO.

I started in June and battled GHA for a couple of months. I'd love to post a picture of that. It was BAD!!!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8337/8...ae1b450e_b.jpg

What are you running for lights to give you that colour

It's a kit built LED that a friend made and sold to me from rapid LED

2 years + only SPS is not noob ;)

But welcome aboard :)

Great idea for a thread,

One point to make quickly; for "Newbie" members it could be painful to try and navigate all of the abbreviations used here.

Just a thought. :wink:

There's an app to solve that problem.....

But yeah sometimes people get a little carried away with abbreviations, Canreef isn't bad for them there are others that you literally need a cheat sheet to read through the thread I've seen it so bad that you need to look at the context of the post to get the right meaning.

here's mine, 60 gallon, deltec mce300 skimmer, no sump, cheap aquatraders led lighting, 2 koralia powerheads. Tank was started about 8 months ago. And yes I have algae, lots of it lol, i'm working on it!

http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/...B6C426DAD1.jpg

Its about 4 months old just a baby tank

Running since February 2012
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...a/IMAG0390.jpg

Here's mine! I just got it started in Sept.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...kof7/001-4.jpg

Great looking tanks !

Awesome tanks. Keep the pictures coming. And if you run out of pic, take more pics; or even better, start a new tank ;)

Is you clown hosting the zoas? :D

Haha. Well we can consider that as a "steep learning process" ;)