[White Thunder]

hot shit

[86ttops]

That is a comon miss conseption if you have the right setup and spend enough money it is easy i feed mine every other day and add water maybe once a week every 2 weeks i test the water and once a month i do a water change

Originally Posted by White Thunder african chiclids FTW salt is hard to take car of... my bro has a 150 gal with a 20 lbs cat fish that emptys half the water when its pissed....lol

[RhadCundell]

wow dude my mom has a 55 gal
and i thought that was a lot of work you guys are talking about 100+
thats just insane and im sure a ton of money

[G.T. Rags]

Originally Posted by 86ttops I would wait for you biological cycle to complet or you my loose everyhting if the bilogical cycle has not been complet just whach your nitrates and nitrites it usaly take or has me 6 months or better to cycle my tanks at that point you will see alot of alge be it red or buble alge did you start your tank with live bacteria?

I started my tank off of another tank.........

I did a water change on my established tank, and took one of the existing filters that was running off the original tank and ran it on the new one.
I then took the old water from the 1t tank, combined it with other existing saltwater with live bacteria in it as well. I also used Bioactive reef sand.

All in all, out of the 33 gallons of water in the tank, only approximately 7 gallons of it were fresh salt water.

[G.T. Rags]

on aonther note, my tank is already forming algea......the back wall is 50% covored with it.

[86ttops]

cool that sounds like it would work good i did that when i whent from a 55 to the 125 now i want a 200+

[G.T. Rags]

Originally Posted by 86ttops cool that sounds like it would work good i did that when i whent from a 55 to the 125 now i want a 200+

yea, the first tank i ever set up it took almost 3 weeks for the water to become crystal, so i knew what not to do this time around. Within 24 hours the water was clear, and within a week crystal.

4 shits and giggls i bought a $3 damsel to throw in Day 1 hour 4 and the son of a bitch is stick kicking. Didn't even get sick.

[G.T. Rags]

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i just updated the tank today........

the trigger and yellow damsel are gone, replaced by 1 hippo tang, 1 yellow tang, and 1 flame angel fish.

i picked up 4 snails and added them as well as 5 more lbs of live rock.

ontop of what i alrewady listed, i had 3 green chromis's, a fire fish, hog fish, hawkfish, and a vallentin saddle puffer fish......(i may have butchered that) in the tank already

[JASonic]

I see a clown in there. Nice tank. I was expecting a shark or something to go across the screen eating the small fortune in fish.

[MSO]

geez makes me want a tank >.<

[G.T. Rags]

Originally Posted by ja002gl I see a clown in there. Nice tank. I was expecting a shark or something to go across the screen eating the small fortune in fish.

i hope ur not talking about my tank, cause i don't have any clownfish.....

i used to have a nemo in my old tank, but he got killeddedededed when i was mad scientist with it

[1BADSTANG]

Hey nice fish, I have a 150 gallon malawi cichlid tank, with over 150 pounds of dead coral in it. I also have a 230 gallon reef tank, although the malawi is so much more fun

[JASonic]

Isnt that a "nemo" fish? I swore I seen one in that vid above. Welp, Im no fish master.

[G.T. Rags]

Originally Posted by 1BADSTANG Hey nice fish, I have a 150 gallon malawi cichlid tank, with over 150 pounds of dead coral in it. I also have a 230 gallon reef tank, although the malawi is so much more fun

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Originally Posted by ja002gl Isnt that a "nemo" fish? I swore I seen one in that vid above. Welp, Im no fish master.

no, def not dude........ unless he got blinked into existance....

[JASonic]

Sweet. Phantom fish in YOUR tank only in MY mind.

[96Snaker]

Awesome!

Had a 180 gallon tank with nothing except living corral and two 14" eels. I tried adapting a few angelfish but nothing got along too well with the eels, and eventually I grew old of the tank's upkeep (ph level, thawing frozen eel food, etc etc) and sold it to my neighbor.

If it wasn't for the work, I'd get another.

[G.T. Rags]

testings not that hard....... takes ten minutes.

My tank requires minimal upkeep right now, and i don't really plan on putting anything in there that requires more. I can go on vacation, and as long as some food is sprinkled in the tank everyday, i can be gone for a good 2 weeks

[96Snaker]

Originally Posted by 96GTRagTop testings not that hard....... takes ten minutes. My tank requires minimal upkeep right now, and i don't really plan on putting anything in there that requires more. I can go on vacation, and as long as some food is sprinkled in the tank everyday, i can be gone for a good 2 weeks

mine was hard... with the algae, etc constantly growing (live rock, reef, etc) the 02 levels (and thus, the ph levels) were ever-changing within the tank.

[G.T. Rags]

lol.......just throw some snails in there dude, or a magnet sponge.......that thing works great.

cleaning the tank is real easy.....i think the hardest part was trying not to get water everywhere