Trinituner Reefers, Saltwater Aquarium Fish Keepers

[thatlife]

shipped everything from the US

even salt, sand, rock

where do you guys get water locally?

I'm going to cycle my tank with the DrTim's Aquatics One and Only Live Nitrifying Bacteria
http://www.drtimsaquatics.com/treat-aqu ... nia-levels

and DrTim's Aquatics Ammonium chloride for Aquarium

I'll need some invertebrates /cleaners

Where do you usually get supplies for your tank locally?
live rock?
fishes?
sand?
food?
etc

I have some questions on cycling
do i leave on the bio filter?
do i leave on the lights?
what about the new filter system i put in, do i leave that in as well with the seachem etc?
while cycling

[greenlime100]

Thatlife just like me when I was about to get started lol....

Basically I get everything I need from Raj in Tunapuna. He has 90% of what you need. Ive brought in a few things... but generally his prices are good.

And I ended buying Alot of bioballs and dont even use it at all, never did. I cycled my tank 'naturally' ran it for a month.. then added in 2 damsels and went from there once bacteria started to develop. During this time my lights were set on the timer so they would only be on 8 hours of the day.

As for the water question. .... I use an rodi filter and buy salt mix from raj. I believe he also sells salt water already mixed.

[greenlime100]

And I say no on the schema products. .. until the tank has developed its bacteria and so on.

Cause at the start of the system there are really no phosphates to remove... the skimmer can be ran as normal

Talk to Raj he guide you accordingly for sure.

Reefers....correct me if im wrong on the cycling of the tank

[thatlife]

^ thanks greenlime
whats the contact no. for raj?


i find this place real quiet..
thought I would have gotten more advice here

would post on some foreign forums later

[greenlime100]

Raj: 744-8768

This forum real helped me out....alot
Men probably just busy this rounds...but keep us updated..post pics and other questions.
We'll help you out.

[thatlife]

thanks,
will post pics next week when I'm assembling

[HondaB20B]

^ thanks greenlime
whats the contact no. for raj?


i find this place real quiet..
thought I would have gotten more advice here

would post on some foreign forums later

Just asking, did you read this entire salt water thread from page 1? There are lots of info posted by others and myself and even lots of pics. We here to help. But from your response above, I guess you wanted to speed up the process. Go back to page 1 and there are lots of info to start your system and have it running effectively. Trust me..............there is good info

[bir123]

Any body know the price that raj sells rodi water and for mixed saltwater .

[HondaB20B]

Any body know the price that raj sells rodi water and for mixed saltwater .

$35 for a 5gal - salt water (1.025-26)
and either $20-$25 for 5gal of RO/DI water.

Don't trust some of the petshops cause they using regular tapwater and mixing the salt. In a couple weeks you will want to know why you getting algae bloom.

[bir123]

Thanks there ,my rodi catridge need changeing and it don't sell in trinidad sa i ordered like 3 online but they reaching next 2 weeks and i need to do a water change .

[HondaB20B]

So bir123, how d tank going with the corals and fish. What do you have in the tank at the moment

[bir123]

Honda the tank going good just have 2 clown fish in it right now an a few coral
Will post a pic

[bir123]

Apparently i could post 1 pic at time then it says i need to be logged in to post

[bir123]

Look pic on photobucket

[HondaB20B]

Ey man the tank going good. See you have some SPS also. When they start to grow out more, just make sure you keeping your Cal and Alk up cause the are the always the first to go and usually don't come back. LPS retract a bit when its getting low and as its back up they good to go. Daily dosing of B-Ionic and you good.

[HondaB20B]

Also remember to be pruning that chaeto regular.
Now looking back at the pics, I see like you already dosing b-ionic cause is that coralline in the MP40 and on filters and glass?

[greenlime100]

Bir123....nice setup man. Looking good.

[thatlife]

^ thanks greenlime
whats the contact no. for raj?


i find this place real quiet..
thought I would have gotten more advice here

would post on some foreign forums later

Just asking, did you read this entire salt water thread from page 1? There are lots of info posted by others and myself and even lots of pics. We here to help. But from your response above, I guess you wanted to speed up the process. Go back to page 1 and there are lots of info to start your system and have it running effectively. Trust me..............there is good info

i'm on page 14,
reading everyday
learnt alot so far

will start posting some pics today
would like to start adding water and cycling from tomorrow
from alot of reviews, youtube and forums the dr tims one and only bacteria and ammonia worked well and tanks cycled in just a couple days.

i'm going to cycle without skimmer, without filtermedia (seachem and chemi-pure) , no lights, no UV Sterilizer, just the filterfloss

once cycled I will add a couple invertebrates, plan on checking Raj tomorrow

[bir123]

Thanks honda and greenlime yea will keep an eye on those and yes i am dosing b-ionic.And coral starting to grow a little bit.

[HondaB20B]

^ thanks greenlime
whats the contact no. for raj?


i find this place real quiet..
thought I would have gotten more advice here

would post on some foreign forums later

Just asking, did you read this entire salt water thread from page 1? There are lots of info posted by others and myself and even lots of pics. We here to help. But from your response above, I guess you wanted to speed up the process. Go back to page 1 and there are lots of info to start your system and have it running effectively. Trust me..............there is good info

i'm on page 14,
reading everyday
learnt alot so far

will start posting some pics today
would like to start adding water and cycling from tomorrow
from alot of reviews, youtube and forums the dr tims one and only bacteria and ammonia worked well and tanks cycled in just a couple days.

i'm going to cycle without skimmer, without filtermedia (seachem and chemi-pure) , no lights, no UV Sterilizer, just the filterfloss

once cycled I will add a couple invertebrates, plan on checking Raj tomorrow

Somewhere in the reading up you would see where i cycled tanks with
2-3 times the required dosage of Niteout bacteria and mollies.

[HondaB20B]

Thatlife, then again you are starting you tank with dead rock. That takes alot longer. I do all mmy tanks with live rock. Your marine growth will take alot longer. When i did my reef, which has about 300lbs of rock, i would say 85% was live rock from raj with the other 15 bieng dead. That 15% took real time to get stuff to grow on it.

[thatlife]

up and running with tap water, just to check for leaks and to remove any debris from manufacturing

I have one Hydor Koralia Nano 425 Power head running with the stock biocube pump and powerhead

I have another Hydor Koralia Nano 425 on the way, as I find one is a bit too small
and from reading the corals need good flow, also got the wave controller for it

My temperature after an hour is 84.6 F (tap water), is this ok?
the tank just has water and the pump and powerhead running, no lights on




Tomorrow when I start cycling I'll be using
CaribSea Arag-Alive 20-Pound Special Grade Reef Sand
"Contains millions of beneficial marine bacteria to enhance biological filtration"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00025 ... UTF8&psc=1

Carib Sea South Sea Base Rock Bag 10LB 1CS
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006D5 ... UTF8&psc=1

How much live rock should I include?
tank is a 29Gallon

I've got this on hand, if it will help
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O3 ... UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EL ... UTF8&psc=1

[HondaB20B]

Thatlife, how far you reach in the reading...............................lol.
You usually 1 - 1 1/2lbs of live rock per gallon. but remember you are actually not going to be 29gal cause the sand and rock will displace some. It all depends on the density of the rocks. I never use live sand so I cant answer. Never saw that much good reviews about it.......... not that its bad, but people saw better results with regular dead sand and all live rock, bacteria and a fish to start the cycle. I never heard about reef bugs and in any case its for when you start having corals. its not bacteria. The coral frenzy also. In any case you wont be using that for the next couple mths. Putting that in your tank in the early stages will surely encourage cyano bacteria.

[greenlime100]

Sizing up to be an interesting build....

I used both dead rock and sand when I started..... my tank is up for about 2 years and had coral and been dosing 2 part for 1 year (January will be 2 years) only about 2 months ago I saw coralline pick up and before that i can say it took LONG for the bacteria to really develop on the rocks.
And from my reading as well id say live rock is the way to start. I suppose live sand should help speed things up as it introduces bacteria.

Also remember to use rodi water right through else youll get a serious algae bloom....talking from experience lol

[HondaB20B]

When I started dosing b-ionic over 2 yrs ago (think was 30mls), I first spotted coralline spores on my glass and pumps by the 5th wk........... I was jumping for joy and my wife could of never understood. . What i was also doing every week at the time was taking the pieces of rock that i had outside with coralline growing on it (matchbox size) putting it in a bag and crushing it to a paste, mixing it with about 2 ltrs of salt water, and pouring it in front my powerheads so it will be dispersed. I took off my skimmer. All snails that even got the slightest color felt the pinch..........lol. a few wks after that things just shot off. All plastic items in your tank leach out slight chemicals including phosphates. They say when coralline starts growing on plastics, you know all leaching has stopped. Proper spectrum of lighting and the right the 3 key items for growth are Calcium, Alkalnity & you must have good Magnesium levels. All 3 of them go hand in hand. Get all 3 correct and you go be begging it to stop. Right now all my powerheads, viewing glasses, glass cleaners, airline tubing, all my pretty snails has layers and layers of it. When I clean them I just sprinkle it back in the water.
So that's 3 other test kits you have to get if you going reef. Along with a Phosphate kit.

[thatlife]

need to get some water and rock today
tried calling Raj phone since yesterday and its off 744-8768

is he around? any other contact?
anywhere else I can get RO/DI water and live rock?

[HondaB20B]

You realy cant go wrong with the live rock from him. Nah, no other phone. He mustbe busy with the grocery. Better you wait on him. It have men that trying to palm off blue waters water as RO/DI water. Blue waters and other drinking water is RO water. If you use that you will end up in problems before you even start good.

[HondaB20B]

bumping thread............................ where is everyone, ziggy, greenlime, madman_devin, fishman, thatlife, reefplanet, jerry84, 3Po, Tigz, meccalli, karpul_v2, ........................ cant remember who else I forget

[dgobo]

So i finally decided start my build after over two years of only thinking about it.

Here's the specs on the tanks
72Lx18Wx30H made from 1/2inch glass
2 sumps 24x14x20

I've got the rodi system already and i've ordered the lighting. i still need the rest of stuff, next purchase should be the skimmer im thinking of getting the reef octopus diablo DCRS 200.

[thatlife]

^ thats huge, liking the rocks


i checked raj yesterday, he seems to be the boss
didn't expect him to have so much stuff, a very big operation he has there

Told him about the Dr. Tims Bacteria to cycle the tank and he highly recommends it, its a great product along with the ammonia chloride drops.

I put in the bacteria and ammonia yesterday along with 15lbs live rock from raj
Its been cycling with the RO/DI water with the live fiji sand and 10lbs dead rock, no skimmers, no lights, just a filter







water cleared up very good over night, was a bit cloudy with the sand and salt

I'll post the parameters later when I'm home