Trinituner Reefers, Saltwater Aquarium Fish Keepers

[vs_unique23]

any1 have any mushrooms or frogspawn for sale?

[greenlime100]

Guys, I'm sure some of you are on instagram, a friend and I have started an account: aquaTrinidad you can search for it by account or hashtag, there's just a couple pics up right now but it's aim is currently to showcase the reef Aquariums in Trinidad.

Check it out!

[thatlife]

Nice move
I just direct messaged a video lol

Btw. Lost my mandarin tonight had him for about a year. He had one eye.

My first fish loss technically, I had a goby that died as soon as I dropped him in the tank when I first set up my tank due to bad acclimation.

[HondaB20B]

The question at hand now is did it have sufficient copepods to survive in a small tank. what might work for someone else might not work for others. The reason mandarins need to be eating is that they have a very small stomach or none at all (cant remember which) and they constantly need to eat. They are recommended to be in matured tank (approx 1 year old) and along with other fish that don't eat out the copepod population that you are trying to populate. eg: some gobies and wrasses.
you may be lucky to get one that eats pellets but they move so slow that by time you feed all your fish, its lucky if it ever get one pellet to eat. Try to start repopulating the tank for a few mths before you put another one in.

[Anthony_S]

Anyone got zoas for sale?

[thatlife]

The question at hand now is did it have sufficient copepods to survive in a small tank. what might work for someone else might not work for others. The reason mandarins need to be eating is that they have a very small stomach or none at all (cant remember which) and they constantly need to eat. They are recommended to be in matured tank (approx 1 year old) and along with other fish that don't eat out the copepod population that you are trying to populate. eg: some gobies and wrasses.
you may be lucky to get one that eats pellets but they move so slow that by time you feed all your fish, its lucky if it ever get one pellet to eat. Try to start repopulating the tank for a few mths before you put another one in.

more than likely it may be starvation, over the period of a year.
also the one eye didn't help the situation much. I have no intentions of adding another anytime soon.
btw he ate mysis everytime i fed it, but this was like 3 times a week.

otherwise everything is going well with the tanks
corals growing like crazy, tank is clean

[HondaB20B]

I always try to repopulate my tank every few mths. I have a pair of Mandarins in my tank right now and they doing great (KNOCK ON WOOD). My tank need a good cleaning.

[greenlime100]

Just had to share this



Came home and found the starfish just tanning in the zoas. lol

[ziggy_dappa]

^^^ What lights are you using ?? The leds look pretty close.

[greenlime100]

^^^ What lights are you using ?? The leds look pretty close.

They are roughly just over 9" from the surface.
The tank is 3' deep so needed to adjust it in order to get the light penetration at the sand bed.
Corals seem to be doing fine with it at that height. Had it there for almost 3 years now.

Soon I'll be changing over to a 2' depth so I'll adjust it then.

[UML]

^^^ What lights are you using ?? The leds look pretty close.

They are roughly just over 9" from the surface.
The tank is 3' deep so needed to adjust it in order to get the light penetration at the sand bed.
Corals seem to be doing fine with it at that height. Had it there for almost 3 years now.

Soon I'll be changing over to a 2' depth so I'll adjust it then.

what brand and type LED light is that?





T5 lighting owners, since Raj said he will no longer be bringing in T5 bulbs are you changing to LED lighting or importing your own bulbs?

[HondaB20B]

I still sticking with my T5 bulbs. I special order my bulbs from him and I get mine no matter what.
What bulbs (brand) you were trying to get. I have been running the wavepoint brand for the last 4yrs on my reef and no issues. Really wanted another brand but that like double the cost.

[thatlife]

Anybody ever been to tanked? ATM in Vegas?

[ryan99tt]

hey fellaz....been out of the marine scn for ah while but i looking to get back in with ah full setup...looking to purchase equipment so lemme no wat u guys have or can advise to buy...shipping is not a problem....looking to do ah 5'x3'x2.5' tank with atleast 4' sump...i looking to do d full works...any info will be greatly appreciated...

[kyhamil]

Im new in the hobby, 4 month old tank, 30 gallon fowler setup... Im planning to upgrade to a approximately 75 gallon 3'x2'x2'... when I purchased my equipment I sized everything thing for this new setup... thinking ahead... I want to eventually go to ether corals or have an anemone for my clownfish and from the research ive seen that ether way I need proper lighting... so my question is for my 2 foot depth and small tank size... whats a gd light to buy and the height I should place it above the tank

[UML]

I still sticking with my T5 bulbs. I special order my bulbs from him and I get mine no matter what.
What bulbs (brand) you were trying to get. I have been running the wavepoint brand for the last 4yrs on my reef and no issues. Really wanted another brand but that like double the cost.

Kool. I didn't know special order was an option. How much do you pay? Same wavepoint.

If I decide to go LED I want something the length of my tank not those small setups which I have to buy two of. Suggestions are welcomed.

[HondaB20B]

When I need T5's I just tell him I need and he organize them. 8 - 14,000 K and 4 - actinics

[TheSpecialOne]

Morning guys. Tank has been running 8 months now and still not seeing any coraline. Is there anything i can do to help the process ?

[greenlime100]

^^^ What lights are you using ?? The leds look pretty close.

They are roughly just over 9" from the surface.
The tank is 3' deep so needed to adjust it in order to get the light penetration at the sand bed.
Corals seem to be doing fine with it at that height. Had it there for almost 3 years now.

Soon I'll be changing over to a 2' depth so I'll adjust it then.

what brand and type LED light is that?





T5 lighting owners, since Raj said he will no longer be bringing in T5 bulbs are you changing to LED lighting or importing your own bulbs?

It's acan lighting. Had this for over 3 years and absolutely no complaints. The build quality is exceptional and feels heavy duty. I bought this because at the time I wasn't pleased with the feel and look of the radions since my tank didn't have a canopy and building a rack for the radions or similiar light systems wasn't an option.
My light spans across the entire length of my tank and gives the finished look that I wanted. The built in timer controls allowed for automatic ramping up and down of the lights and still has the option to custom set each level of light intensity and the time of day it occurs. Currently peak intensity happens at 1pm and that's only utilizing 80% of the LED capability and penetrating 3ft.
3 years ago integrated UV with green and red etc. LEDs were just being introduced, if I had to do it all over I'll be sticking with LED lighting but go for those new features.
If you are going for a canopy, I have seen the Aqua illumination lighting and I am impressed with their build quality as well as performance.

[HondaB20B]

Morning guys. Tank has been running 8 months now and still not seeing any coraline. Is there anything i can do to help the process ?

I realize guys ask the same question all the time and don't read the lots and lots of posts we (tuners) put up about water parameters.
Lighting has a lot to do with coralline, with that being said, what lights you running. T5's, halides and most LEDS will grow coralline like crazy. 3watt LEDS, [b](NOT THE 1watt)[/b]
Other key thing is what are your ALK (8-12 dKH), CAL (350-450ppm) and magnesium (1250-1350ppm). If these things are off you will never grow coralline. Are you dosing Alk and Cal on a daily basis? Depending on water volume, If you doing basic water changes and you have corals, the Alk & Cal in the water can be absorbed by your coral and not sustaining coralline growth. I dose two part daily (6 X daily) so as to avoid a fluctuation in Alk & Cal readings and I have coralline growing like crazy over everything.........pumps, rock, class cleaners, glass, snails...........everything. I started dosing when my tank was 3-4mths old and within the first mth, coralline took off. That's nearly 4 yrs now.

[thatlife]

Passed by tanked today
They were filming a new episode. Kinda cool. They were building a vw van

[thatlife]

Looks like the app posted the same pics again

Will have to do it on separate posts

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[meccalli]

sweet!

[UML]

Did a water change yesterday and woke up this morning and my water is even more cloudy than yesterday. Any ideas what could cause this? Should I do another water change?

[HondaB20B]

Did a water change yesterday and woke up this morning and my water is even more cloudy than yesterday. Any ideas what could cause this? Should I do another water change?

What brand salt you using. How long you mix it before you put it in the tank. Did it have any deposits from the salt not properly dissolved that was pumped into the tank. The salt water you added in the tank, was it ever in the sunlight for any period of time........ just a few

[UML]

Is the same 20 minute quick dissolving black bucket salt. I had it mixing for a few days though. No sunlight.

[HondaB20B]

cant say if its similar to the reef crystals, but some salts leave a slight light brown sludge the doesn't dissolve in the mixing stages. This may have been picked up during suction. Not too sure but that used to happen to me before