new member
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:23 pm
Hello everyone!
I am a new member and I just wanted to say what a nice site you have here. I live in Pace, FL right outside of Pensacola, FL and I got into the hobby because I was at my LFS and they said why not start a saltwater tank. I have always be interested in saltwater, but I've hear it was hard to start one. So I got me a 20 gallon tank and after only two months of it running a bug hit me to go bigger in tank size, so I took down my beloved cichlid tank after running it for 5 years. I have had my 29g saltwater tank running for 2 months going on 3 months now
. It was hard in the beginning cause I was so anxious to get some fish and corals for the 20g, but I knew they would not survive, so I stuck with just damsels (I know how cruel, but I was only doing what the lfs told me to do). Then after one month I got my first coral "GSP". I didn't know at the time that it took a lot of time to keep this coral alive and it died after only 2 weeks cause of hairy algae covering it and me not using RO water. So that was when I just got feed up and went bigger in tank size. Now I am doing a great job of keeping my corals alive and and my tank a lot cleaner.
TANK SPECS:
System/Lighting: 29gallon, 2 intense whites and 2 actinic (DIY Canopy)
Filtration/Circulation: 2 Maxi-Jets Power Heads, Penguin 330 Bio-Wheel ( fuge), Prizm Protein Skimmer & Heater
Corals/Inverts: Red & Green Zoa's, Green Mushroom, Ricorida florida, hammer, Candy Coral, Metallic Green Star Polyps, Yellow Polyps, Button Polyps, Brittle Star, 16 Turbo Snails, 3 Hermits
Fish: 2 Ocellaris Clownfish, 1 Six Line Wrasse, 1 Four stripe Damsel
I am a new member and I just wanted to say what a nice site you have here. I live in Pace, FL right outside of Pensacola, FL and I got into the hobby because I was at my LFS and they said why not start a saltwater tank. I have always be interested in saltwater, but I've hear it was hard to start one. So I got me a 20 gallon tank and after only two months of it running a bug hit me to go bigger in tank size, so I took down my beloved cichlid tank after running it for 5 years. I have had my 29g saltwater tank running for 2 months going on 3 months now
. It was hard in the beginning cause I was so anxious to get some fish and corals for the 20g, but I knew they would not survive, so I stuck with just damsels (I know how cruel, but I was only doing what the lfs told me to do). Then after one month I got my first coral "GSP". I didn't know at the time that it took a lot of time to keep this coral alive and it died after only 2 weeks cause of hairy algae covering it and me not using RO water. So that was when I just got feed up and went bigger in tank size. Now I am doing a great job of keeping my corals alive and and my tank a lot cleaner. TANK SPECS:
System/Lighting: 29gallon, 2 intense whites and 2 actinic (DIY Canopy)
Filtration/Circulation: 2 Maxi-Jets Power Heads, Penguin 330 Bio-Wheel ( fuge), Prizm Protein Skimmer & Heater
Corals/Inverts: Red & Green Zoa's, Green Mushroom, Ricorida florida, hammer, Candy Coral, Metallic Green Star Polyps, Yellow Polyps, Button Polyps, Brittle Star, 16 Turbo Snails, 3 Hermits
Fish: 2 Ocellaris Clownfish, 1 Six Line Wrasse, 1 Four stripe Damsel
But there is hope. 
We have AA (Aquarists Anonymous) meetings about once a month or so to help you cope with your detoxicing, and binge spending, although the meetings may take some time to work due to the bad influences of such "high risk" reef patients we have here "Mike, Terry"... Avoid these such patients at all cost! They are the Devil!