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05-02-2007, 06:37 PM
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| Five steps to success with Saltwater Coral Reef Aquariums Do you dream of watching the natural beauty of the undersea reef life while sitting in your living room?
Whether your goal is a nano reef tank or a 150 gallon aquarium with an ecosystem of coral and saltwater fish, the following five steps will lead you on your way to success.
1) Commit! Decide you are going to spend the $$ it takes to make a proper go of it. At a minimum, most tanks, (from 10 gal to 55 gal) take between $250 and $500 to get going. Can you do it cheaper? Yes, but usually not your first one. You have to know what you are doing and understand how things can and will go wrong before you can choose less expensive husbandry options and/or equipment. Save up if you have to, but count on that first tank being expensive.
Realize that this is not a short term commitment. And as much fun as it is to collect the coolest coral fragments out there and show them off to your friends, there WILL come a time when you are hauling all of those same 'frags' out of the tank and into temporary storage when your six year old cracks the side of the display tank with a pool ball or some other calamity occurs.
2) Study! Spend time on the internet, in books and watching nature shows on reefs BEFORE you get your animals. Understand the animals that you are going to keep and how they interact with each other. If you count on the LFS (Local Fish Store) or your buddy down the road to keep you out of trouble and don't do your homework.. You will fail. That is the one guarantee in this hobby. DO YOUR HOMEWORK.
The only way around this is to be able to afford to pay someone else to set-up and maintain your tank.
3) Mingle! (see 2 above) There are plenty of reef-keeping societies out there with lots of experience to help you along your way and teach you what you need to know. As long as you are doing your own homework, they are usually happy to help!
4) Keep an open mind! There is not just one way to keep a reef tank - no matter how loudly people on the various bulletin boards and forums out there might shout that there is.
5) Share! It is amazing how much help people are willing to give when they realize that you are offering a particularly nice specimen that they have always wanted. Equipment that they didn't even remember they had may magically appear or they might be willing to share a very nice piece of their own reef frag with you. Trading frags not only is a great way to increase your variety, but it helps maintain genetic strains of corals (frags are also known as 'clones') that might otherwise die out in a single tank struck by the calamity mentioned in 1 above. |
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05-02-2007, 11:08 PM
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| Thank's for the great information about saltwater coral reef aquariums. Watching the natural beauty of the undersea reef life is very relaxing for me especially after work. I'll surely bear those steps in my mind. |
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08-13-2007, 07:58 PM
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| hi, we have just bought a small set up and was told to fill tank with tap water, it has been running a week and we have just bought seven peices of live rock, the day after putting rock in tank we have seen things moving about on it, the thing is we went to another shop to day and he told us we should have used ro water to fill tank, and siad we could lose all the live rock, he said we need to do big water changes to get ride of the tap water, is this true, thanks. |
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08-14-2007, 12:04 AM
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| Tap water really should not be used but since you have already set up the tank that way I would recommend using RO water for your water changes and top off water and eventually you will get rid of the tap water you started with. I think your live rock will be fine there is no reason why you would lose it unless your tap water had a lot of copper in it
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08-14-2007, 05:32 AM
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| thanks Hi, thanks for that, we did a test last night, ph 8.0 , ammonia 0.25 - 0, nitrate 40-20, nitrite 0, we will do a water change with ro water today.  |
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01-04-2008, 04:33 PM
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| Thanks for the tips! Is there anything besides the above to add in that most new people overlook? Any tips if you have them, I need as many as you got! |
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08-09-2011, 03:23 AM
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| Thank you for information sharing, it useful to me.
Well, great work! You have helped me to improve my knowledge about this field. Thank you so much for sharing.
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