Newbies FTS thread!

[Ryan-b]

Thanks .

I started up the tank about a year ago this time, I had a little 40g tank for about 6 months prior to this one transferred everything over and started adding corals in January. Most if not all the coral was purchased as frags so the growths been decent I guess, I'm not to happy with the colors so I will be switching to mh/t5 in the next month to see if I like it better.

So I have been doing the SW thing for about 1.5 years I still consider myself a noob.

Ps Kien some of the frags are from you

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by Ryan-b

Thanks .

I started up the tank about a year ago this time, I had a little 40g tank for about 6 months prior to this one transferred everything over and started adding corals in January. Most if not all the coral was purchased as frags so the growths been decent I guess, I'm not to happy with the colors so I will be switching to mh/t5 in the next month to see if I like it better.

So I have been doing the SW thing for about 1.5 years I still consider myself a noob.

Ps Kien some of the frags are from you

What do you have for LEDs now

[Ryan-b]

72 3w Cree
24 3w cool white
24 high noon.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Ryan-b

Thanks .

I started up the tank about a year ago this time, I had a little 40g tank for about 6 months prior to this one transferred everything over and started adding corals in January. Most if not all the coral was purchased as frags so the growths been decent I guess, I'm not to happy with the colors so I will be switching to mh/t5 in the next month to see if I like it better.

So I have been doing the SW thing for about 1.5 years I still consider myself a noob.

Ps Kien some of the frags are from you

Cool! So tell us a little about your husbandry (dosing, additives, reactors, etc). Wait, do you have a build thread/journal?!

[Ryan-b]

I do a 30g water change every 2-4 weeks.

Dose calcium(420)/alk(8)/mag(1350) via a marine magic doser, not sure quantities as I adjust the timer as my levels fall, i go through a gallon jug every 2-3 weeks.

I run carbon/gfo in a TLF reactor. Change out the carbon once every month or 2, and the gfo when ever my po4 gets above .03

I dont add any additives, or run anything like pellets, or zeo.

I only skim 12hours a day as I find the skimmer to noisy during the day, I tried skimming 24/7 for a couple weeks and had a cyano out break, not sure if this had anything to do with it.

Besides that I just let it run as I have a 2 year old and a 4 month old so I dont have a ton of time to play with it quite as much as I would like, but maybe thats a good thing.

I do have a Journal but I dont really update it I have a coupel pics on there.

[mrhasan]

Did we run out of newbies?

[Dearth]

If a lot of the news are like me they are probably embarrassed to post tank shots because so many of the tank shots posted on this site are awesome while us newbies have plain tanks compared to the guys with older established tanks.

Like I stated in an earlier post most on this forum are helpful and supportive unlike most of the SW forums I've visited.

Newbs post yer tank shots I don't think anybody will judge your tank harshly

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Dearth

If a lot of the news are like me they are probably embarrassed to post tank shots because so many of the tank shots posted on this site are awesome while us newbies have plain tanks compared to the guys with older established tanks.

Like I stated in an earlier post most on this forum are helpful and supportive unlike most of the SW forums I've visited.

Newbs post yer tank shots I don't think anybody will judge your tank harshly

And that's why this thread exists To make ourselves feel comfy