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#1
05-02-2010, 12:58 AM
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hmm so where are the salt water tanks?
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Current System 75 Gal with 30 Gal Sump Reef Past Tanks 60 Gallon True Cube 30 Gallon Breeder 165 Eurobraced Starfire Custom 10 Gallon Softy Tank(My First Tank) 
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05-02-2010, 02:44 PM
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cool. yah i have a couple of 10 gallon FW tanks kicking around too. I keep them around because they are amazingly cheap! Cant wait to see what you do with your first SW tank.
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Current System 75 Gal with 30 Gal Sump Reef Past Tanks 60 Gallon True Cube 30 Gallon Breeder 165 Eurobraced Starfire Custom 10 Gallon Softy Tank(My First Tank)
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05-03-2010, 07:32 AM
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 Sadly its not fully updated yet... But here's my salt water tank in its past building up stages.
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#5
05-03-2010, 07:49 AM
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The old 10Gallon was then switched to a salt water tank.
I came into this with only a bit of knowledge so forgive my mistakes. Random information but as you can see I never really ever waited for a tank to cycle before. I'm just to excited to get fish and always seem to find ways around making my tank have to start fresh... Maybe I'm just lucky. 10 Gallon Tank 50 Gallon Aqua Clear Filter Life Glow T8 Marine Glow T8 Hydor 100W Heater 10 Gallon Air Pump w/ Read Sea Wood Air Stone (I wanted it cause it was Red Sea  )Full Ice Cream Bucket of Live Crushed Coral Substrate from a friends tank. 12.77 Pounds of Live Rock from Pisces Pet Emporium  !!PROBLEM!! Rock is LITTERD with Aiptasia Anemone (aiptasia pallida) I was so excited when I thought I had a bunch of free anemones... I never read the thread on where to get rock before I did... Seems like many people warned of this.  New Rock from a friend! Live Sand from his set up tank Hydor Koralia 1 from Golds Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab (clibanarius tricolor), Gorilla Crab (gorilla gorilla cancer), Spotted Mushroom (actinodiscus sp.), Super Man Mushroom (actinodiscus sp.), TONS of colorful Brittle Sea Star, and some other random Hitch Hikers... So far all good ones tho.       Could this be Sponge...? Black and Yellow stuff  !!DONT BOY THIS!! At this point I was using a $22.00 Oceanic BioCube Mini Hydrometer which I also picked up from Pisces Pet Emporium  I borrowed a Refractometer and when the Oceanic Hydrometer read OFF the charts was the salt really at 1.025. Bought a Refractometer off a friend now and threw that piece of garbage out. Found a Bristle Worm in my Rock!! Thanks to the CanReef members for helping me figure out what it was. Follow up on thread  http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=63622This is my Drawing of it because my camera sucks...  Last edited by 4lti7ude; 06-21-2010 at 05:23 AM.
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#6
05-03-2010, 07:56 AM
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About 1.5 Weeks later from setting up the tank I got my first fish!!
Clown Fish (amphiprion ocellaris) from Golds. I wish I bought him with a buddy, but I think it might be to late now to add another guy?   I have a Tail Spot Blenny (ecsenius stigmatura) with neon green around his eyes =DHe came from Ocean City, he was the only one in the mixed tank to. Haven't been able to get a picture of him yet... He camouflages way to well with the purple in the rock for my camera to capture... Juvenile Bluelined Trigger (pseudobalistes fuscus) from Ocean City. I had to sell him in about 1 week because I noticed he was killing all the brittle star fish. He was smaller then the clown fish too.Way, way to aggressive. A nice lady from CanReef in Edmonton took him to her huge tank   Sand Sifting Sea Star (astropecten polycanthus) from Golds to clean up my sand algae that was coming a bit. The Bluelined nipped him real good on the one arm before he left the tank...   Three Head Frog Spawn (euphyllia paradivisa) Frag from friends tank   Random picture of my clown fish. I named him Marlin after Nemo's dad.  With Night LEDS !!  As referred from the CanReef thread on Nano Skimmers I got the Rio Nano Skimmer from Ocean CityThanks to Seamazter from Ocean City for helping me set it up and get it running amazing. Its skimming out the darkest foam and aerating my tank really great. The Mushrooms are doing Great!  Let me introduce you to Jacques. Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (lysmata amboinensis) from Golds.  10 Gallon tank cracked at the bottom Sunday April 25thLast edited by 4lti7ude; 06-21-2010 at 05:25 AM.
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#7
05-08-2010, 08:50 AM
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Since the little ten gallon cracked, I picked up a 20Gallon tall from Big Als.
All my old stuff fits, its just a taller tank. I also added a background, which I used Sea View on. I used Sea View on all my backgrounds since my first 20 Gallon.    Picked up new rock from marineman.All SUPER clean and live too  Coraline is growing like crazy on my rocks already. I still need a new heater tho. The little 50W Theo is on almost 24/7 trying to keep that thing the right temp.  The Frogspawn is very happy with the new rock.  Blenny hiding in his chosen home.  Pink Coraline?!  The Shrooms curled up real funny with the new amount of current, but there all regular again.  Look at that weird tube underneath the Spotted Mushroom.  Last edited by 4lti7ude; 06-21-2010 at 05:32 AM.
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