Trinituner Reefers, Saltwater Aquarium Fish Keepers

[HondaB20B]

Just fill the tank yesterday whit rodi water that i bought and that the themp with all the equpiment and yes i am running a phosphate reactor

well you good to go then. So salt already mixed in and your salinity checked?

[bir123]

Yea my salinity is 1.023

[HondaB20B]

Yea my salinity is 1.023

If its those plastic hydrometers you using, USUALLYthey are not accurate at all. Its usually lower than what it says. your water should be 1.025-26. That's ideal. You should check it with someone with a refractometer to see how much off it might be. better safe than sorry.

[bir123]

I checked out one on amazon for 31us think i going to buy it because i spending a lot of money on this and don't want my fish or coral to die but do i need de chiller because i doe wa add fish and they die because the them too hot

[HondaB20B]

I checked out one on amazon for 31us think i going to buy it because i spending a lot of money on this and don't want my fish or coral to die but do i need de chiller because i doe wa add fish and they die because the them too hot

You cant go wrong with the refractometer. I cant say if you need a chiller. A lot of people get away without a chiller but it all depends on the location of your tank and what the fluctuation of you temp is. Once you not getting large temp swings throughout the day. They say 72-78F (22.2-25.5) is ideal. My 4ft frag tank doesn't even have a chiller and the temp is 84.2-86F (29-30). My corals are growing but not as effectively as in the reef tank. My reef tank chiller is set at 78F and has been set at that since day one.

[bir123]

Kool i feel i will buy one because these days real hot

[HondaB20B]

you add live rock?

[bir123]

Yea i get a little bit but still need about 20 pounds again but i going to wait about a week and then add it because i letting the tank cycle for 5 weeks and then add inverts then a 2 weeks then fish and then after about a week i going to try to find some coral to try out

[HondaB20B]

Yea i get a little bit but still need about 20 pounds again but i going to wait about a week and then add it because i letting the tank cycle for 5 weeks and then add inverts then a 2 weeks then fish and then after about a week i going to try to find some coral to try out

You should try to add all the rock one time cause when you wait that long you run into problems. Remember you adding living rock with living organisms so when you go and add later on, you will always get a % of bacteria die off due to temp change, PH, transporting live rock out of water, shock. You will possibly get a mini cycle which slows the process. Your ammonia may spike. 20lbs is still allot Buy some bacteria to speed up the process. When I did my tank I added nearly all 300lbs of rock. I had it easy cause I bought all my live rock nearly a year before and had it outside in concrete tubs with fish. When I put the rocks in, I was to use 1 bottle of bacteria, I used 4 bottles instead to speed up the process. I actually never really got a big ammonia spike for many days. 2-3 days I think. I started adding fish slowly in under a wk. do some research on the net. may different ways to do it. In my tubs outside and in my 4ft frag tank, I sped up the cycle by adding about 10-15 mollies. It really works good cause when the cycle starts and you get the diatom outbreak in the first few wks to mths, the mollies eat the algae. If you use damsels or chromis to cycle the tank, the algae remains cause they don't eat algae. If you use damsels, when the cycle is done, its real hard to catch them. Mollies easy to catch

[bir123]

decided to get a reef keeper controller and found this light for my tank

controller

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001V9 ... ZJL9RKAQ9H

light

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0092L ... ZVNQ9LP7N9

also this is de gfo and carbon reactor i have

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BZF ... S86D4V4GO1

find it kind of expensive to buy rodi water so i bought too

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006J ... PDKIKX0DER

[bir123]

I will add the live rock this week then and also got a bottle of bacteria but you could put mollies in salt water never new that i have a 400 gl water tank cut in half fill with a variety of mollies how do you aclimate them

[HondaB20B]

I will add the live rock this week then and also got a bottle of bacteria but you could put mollies in salt water never new that i have a 400 gl water tank cut in half fill with a variety of mollies how do you aclimate them

Actually mollies are considered brackish water fish. I have mollies about over 3 yrs now in salt water. Aclimate them just like any other salt water fish, just a lot slower. I drip them for like 6-8hrs compared to 1 1/2hrs with saltwater fish.



if you look in the bottom center of pic, you'll see about 6 mollies. a few orange and some dalmation. They even breeding in there also. real algae to eat.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aqua ... ?c=830+954

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... catid=1022

[HondaB20B]

look right now raj have some cichlids (3-4") living in saltwater with some clownfish. He dripped them when they were just fry. I was shocked when I saw that one.

[bir123]

Kool i going to cycle the thank with mollies and could you give me a price rannge of some coral

[HondaB20B]

Kool i going to cycle the thank with mollies and could you give me a price rannge of somw coral

I've seen corals go for $200 (zoa frags, small kenyas, dougnuts) and as high as $4000 (blastomussas, scollies and acans). sometimes raj has them for half that but its all in the color and how rare it is. Things like toadstools, hammers, frogspawns, torches are like $850 up, depending on price. You have to go and see corals. Everyones tastes is different along with their pockets. SPS ranges are also different. Its all up to you what you looking for. many different corals to choose from. And each on has a different level of expertize, lighting requirements, water parameters and supplements. Yo buy all your extra test kits if you going corals? Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium and phosphates?

[meccalli]

whoa i only knew about black mollies lol dalmation yes..who knew. They look really nice.

[HondaB20B]

whoa i only knew about black mollies lol dalmation yes..who knew. They look really nice.

but dalmation mollies out real years now. I had them thing before like more than 10 yrs ago

[bir123]

I have a half tank fill with mollies and dalmation is one of them but i see fully grown mollies going for 7 dollars now yea have that but de only thing i not putting on the tank is the calcium reactor doe have space for de co2 tank in the stand

[HondaB20B]

I have a half tank fill with mollies and dalmation is one of them but i see fully grown mollies going for 7 dollars now yea have that but de only thing i not putting on the tank is the calcium reactor doe have space for de co2 tank in the stand

why you going to run a calcium reactor on such a small tank. cost wise it don't make no sense.

[bir123]

I am not but was thinking about it because when ah get de hang of things i going to try to set up a 200 gl reef

[HondaB20B]

Bir123, send some pics nah

[HondaB20B]

I find no one on the forum (saltwater guys) want to share their views, opinions, ask questions, show pics of their tanks. We here to help one another. I sure it might even have men who may have corals or fish to trade.

come on fellas, d thread going dead.

[ziggy_dappa]

Good call honda.

I for one have some frags to trade. Will post some pics later.

[kstt]

looking for a peppermint shrimp to buy. who have one to sell? or where can i get one?

[HondaB20B]

^^^^^^^ You can check Raj, Satoo or Donny @ hydroquatics. Its not something they keep in abundance case they sell fast. $100 each or less. Like you have aptasia

[HondaB20B]

Good call honda.

I for one have some frags to trade. Will post some pics later.

Just dont give away mine. Still have the frogspawn for you and some others. PM me what you have to trade. I'll send you what I have now.

[HondaB20B]

Toadstool under moonlights.



Same toadstool under normal lights. Tentacles are retracted and that's my 4" lawnmower blenny resting inside,



Scolly feeding.



devils hand



This frogspawn just keeps on getting fragged.



cleaner shrimp



Grape coral. Nearly ready to frag

................................Come on people post some pics of what you got

[kstt]

^^^^^^^ You can check Raj, Satoo or Donny @ hydroquatics. Its not something they keep in abundance case they sell fast. $100 each or less. Like you have aptasia

ok

anyone have a number for the fish shop in south by Palmiste?

[HondaB20B]

NU Image............................waste of time when it comes to the quality of SW fish. too expensive also.
Are you planning to use the peppermint shrimp to eliminate aptasia? Or is it just to eat unwanted food in your tank.

[ziggy_dappa]

You check raj?? If he has let me know I me done also.