Trinituner Reefers, Saltwater Aquarium Fish Keepers

[HondaB20B]

what do you feed your starfish? I have one that looking like it starving to death.

Your tank should be up and running closer to a year + for a starfish to settle in and survive. They eat all kinda stuff like detrius, algae, leftover foods etc........How long your tank up. To me temp also affects them

[3pO]

some random pics

[kstt]

what do you feed your starfish? I have one that looking like it starving to death.

Your tank should be up and running closer to a year + for a starfish to settle in and survive. They eat all kinda stuff like detrius, algae, leftover foods etc........How long your tank up. To me temp also affects them

8 months

I got it since my tank was 1 month

[HondaB20B]

BUMP

[ryan99tt]

Yea guys, as i said i lookin to set back up my marine tank since i finish my degree and have the time to invest into it again...i was looking at some lighting...wat u guys recommend for a 4ft tank with ah depth of 24"...looking to go LED and hav night lighting as well as a timer etc.

[meccalli]

my grunt jumped after 4 months ...back to planted tanks with barbs lol...that one hit me hard.

[ryan99tt]

So all your marine fish died? My paag and grouper still there and also my 2 tarpon...

[meccalli]

I had thrown back the snappers, and just had the one tomtate grunt, a hermit and a reef crab. Grunt was doing real well, but it was my fault for not using a heavier cover. Released the 2 crabs back at small boats...have tons of good reef stuff there. Saw some scorpionfishes, big clams and I castnetted some sargeant majors, yellow striped ones. Will give it a go again when I get bored lol.

[HondaB20B]

Yea guys, as i said i lookin to set back up my marine tank since i finish my degree and have the time to invest into it again...i was looking at some lighting...wat u guys recommend for a 4ft tank with ah depth of 24"...looking to go LED and hav night lighting as well as a timer etc.

check out the maxspect razors or the ecoTech marine radions

[zoom rader]

Anyone got young tri colour kois? PM me

[ryan99tt]

Will do honda

[HondaB20B]

Yea guys, as i said i lookin to set back up my marine tank since i finish my degree and have the time to invest into it again...i was looking at some lighting...wat u guys recommend for a 4ft tank with ah depth of 24"...looking to go LED and hav night lighting as well as a timer etc.

check out the maxspect razors or the ecoTech marine radions

I fiddled around with both of the lights for over an hr by raj and I still prefer the Razors.
They even look better. Both prices steep. Online the razors had much better reviews.
You could even think about the Kessils.

[ryan99tt]

What price raj had dem for?

[HondaB20B]

^^^^really cant remember the prices nah. Was never interested in them. To me you cant beat some good T5's for growth. lot of tank men on reefcentral still get good growth with MH or T5's and use LED's to enhance the color. I still running my 12 bulb T5 setup and the coral growth is great. My spaghetti leather is over 18" with a stalk of about 4". The green polyp toadstool is over 12" when fully extended. My frogspawn has more than 20 heads which I've fragged more than once and have them growing out in my frag tank. I wont complain about them. guess I still old school. Guess the choice is still up to you.

[ryan99tt]

Who did the t5 setup for u, raj?

[HondaB20B]

Who did the t5 setup for u, raj?

http://www.amazon.com/Nova-Extreme-Pro- ... +72+inches

I bought the 12 bulb set up to this...........39W each.
Grows my acans and blastos very good on the sand bed. and that's over 30" in depth.

[ryan99tt]

How much it cost u after shipping? Rather go wit led for the lifespan...

[HondaB20B]

How much it cost u after shipping? Rather go wit led for the lifespan...

2 1/2 yrs ago I payed 3500-4000

[ryan99tt]

Ok kool...i see it hav some guys in trini have RODI systems and installing it too...

[HondaB20B]

the RODI I bought from raj is $2500. Comes with the pump installed, prefilter, 5 micron filter, charcoal, 1 micron filter and then passes tru the DI filter. All this and you get a warranty. I bought the TDS meter separate. Running mine over 2 yrs now. DI resin is used up the most cause I only get to make about 60-70 gal of water before the reading get above "1". I dump the resin after that.

[greenlime100]

been a while since i post here LOL things slow boi.....

[HondaB20B]

bump....................................

[ru$$ell]

^thats your first problem,you should research what fish go happily with others,and not just go by whatever Pet store owners say.They just gonna tell you whatever you wanna hear,cause at the end of the day its all business for them.Do some research on your own.

DEAN,i got your books for you man! lol. You probably think i ninja them

Already depositing $$ in separate account for setup yes

[HondaB20B]

^thats your first problem,you should research what fish go happily with others,and not just go by whatever Pet store owners say.They just gonna tell you whatever you wanna hear,cause at the end of the day its all business for them.Do some research on your own.

DEAN,i got your books for you man! lol. You probably think i ninja them

Already depositing $$ in separate account for setup yes

cool, will check you weekend

[HondaB20B]

ok somebody give me a place to go check out to get a full set up and advice na....i jus wanna go in a shop, buy a aquarium and 2 fish like nemo, a lil eel and prob one or 2 other and make sure dey live forever with proper advice from the shop etc. I prefer to go into a shop instead of get by parts and make the entire set up from scratch. any help would be appreciated.

that's the problem with petshops in TNT, 90% only in it for the money and have no clue about setting up a proper tank. Most don't don't even tell tell you about live rock, or bacteria or anything like that. They just put water in, put some rock and want to dump 10 fish in there one time. This process takes time. Depends on the system, you may have to put water and live rock in and wait a good 2 wks before you can even put one fish in (maybe a damsel, chromis or like me, some mollies) to start the cycle. You still have to buy a full test kit to test. This kit must include Ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and PH. You have a lot of reading to do. Get to know some of the guys on the forum that have systems set up and take some advise and ideas from them. A lot of people figure setting up a saltwater setup is just like running a freshwater setuo with some guppies and goldfish.........but its not.

[ru$$ell]

^30 gallons is way to small and is alot more work and headache than you would imagine,trust me,i wanted to go with something around 50-70 gallons myself.

[HondaB20B]

I was looking for a small set up around 30 gals and wanted to see a set up first hand and know the maintenance And work to go towards it... That's why I came up with the idea of Goin to a shop to see em... See I don't wanna fall short on anything and risk ruining my investment or stressing out the fish I put in it.. If any1 has a tank around this size throw in a equipment list and info if u could.

*sand (not the regular gravel for freshwater tanks) and it should cover 2-3".
*30-50lbs live rock
*salt - 50gal bag
*a good brand hang on filter (50gal+) or a good canister filter. (you could do a tank overflow system and have a sump)
*2 power heads for either side of tank
*lights (either T5 or led's) - if its the T5's, make sure you using the ones for saltwater
use. If you use regular bulbs for freshwater use, you'll get bad algae blooms.
*bottle bacteria will help speed up the process
*Protien Skimmer (not mandatory)
* RO/DI water (note: bottled water is not RO/DI water)

[HondaB20B]

ey superman creations, give me a call. need to get the corals ASAP

[Kasey]

got sum snails similar to these in Tobago. Anyone want them? i Still in Tobago by the way.

[ziggy_dappa]

^^ I tried the aquarium already buy they always crawl out and over.