Gumby

Nice little set up. Switch her slowly to brackish water fish then just dump the salt mix and say see you can keep saltwater fish.

21 hours ago, Saltfishlover said:

From a friend who is in the hobby

Just started a tank up again after 15 years out of the hobby

Originally, I did it on my own. I got a buddy into it after that. We both quit, he started back a few years ago and got me back into it

Just a 20gal, for now ,.  Some soft coral and one clown fish with cleaning crew

Never thought of a dream fish

Dream coral would be a brain coral

I hope this was the right place to post this for newbies 

Great to have you on board! Any questions you might have fire away. We have a great group of people with a lot of knowledge that would love to help. I will get you signed up for the November coral drawing.

22 hours ago, GreenJeans said:

Great info, thank you! I'm lucky to have a room on the other side of the wall that I can dedicate to a mixing station, rodi setup, sump space, etc.

 

I'm narrowing down my tank choices between a CustomAquariums.com build, a Red Sea "complete" kit, and a Waterbox 130.4.  I'm leaning towards the Waterbox - I worry that a kit might not be ideal, and the custom tank is likely more expensive. The Waterbox has great reviews. Any others I should consider?

One consideration is the sump - I have the space to set the sump in a closet on the other side of a wall, so I could potentially set up something with a 40"x24" footprint.  Should I take advantage of this and buy an aquarium without a sump, get a custom one built? Or would you just use the one that comes with the Waterbox for simplicity?

What are the "best" bits out there? Pumps, lights, skimmers...I see gyre and vortech mentioned a lot.

If you want to look at Red Sea and Custom Aquarium, Seahorse and Cuttlefish have set up. My 400 gallon tank I had shipped from Custom Aquarium. I have had it running since 2015. I love it.

That is a lot of good info so far and would agree with all of it. If you have the room 125 gallon would be nice. The more water volume you have when something might go wrong. The more time you have to save your livestock. Focus first on good quality equipment. When I started I wish I did not skimp on are lights and water flow. Don't chase certain chase parameters all the time. It is more important to be consistent than right at a certain number within reason of coarse. I mean like chasing calcium, alkalinity, magnesium and PH. Feel free to browse the past threads for info and by all means keep asking questions. I will enter you in to our monthly drawing! 

Welcome! 37 gallon is the perfect for a 1st tank. Definitely post pictures as you go. Would love to see them. Any questions along the way we would be glad to help. I will enter you into our coral drawing this month!

Love the Chalice! Would love to have a frag of the one!

I have the Gen 4's. Love them.

There are 11 more new members that signed this month that can be eligible for this coral drawing with their intro post.

New Members eligible for November Drawing. 

1. Kaos

2. Jakemaxel707

3. GreenJeans

4. Saltfishlover

5. Esheafer

6. glasshousereef

7. brunera

8. CoralReefTankers

Welcome! Good to have you on board! I will put you in the new member drawing for the end of the month.

6 hours ago, Blue Z Reef said:

What’s that one called? I have one also but always get mixed responses on the name lol!

 

beautiful collection! 

Pink boobies chalice

1 hour ago, obrien.david.j said:

Great collection!   Is one of those an Oregon Mummy Eye?  (which one)

Number #16 pic is Oregon Mummy eye. There is deadpool, avatar, space invader, gold midas also.

1 hour ago, The ReefBox said:

Should be sone mire newer ones in there!!!

A couple from you. 

I left some out but here are the main ones.

NO COST. NO GIMMICK. Enter to win a drawing of coral frags when you sign up to be a Member of PNWMAS. You just need to go on the site, sign up and enter some info questions. Drawing will be held at the end of November. I will add new members on a list for the drawing on this thread after they post their info thread. 
A Club member from PNWMAS donated some other corals for the drawing for new members. A frag of each pic of Zoanthids blueberry fields, eye of raw morph and scrambled eggs. Thanks Cody!(paratore)

Happy Belated Birthday Bill!

Okey dokey 

I will take 10

On 10/8/2019 at 3:02 PM, danlu_gt said:

I'm also interested in getting some, maybe 50+.  Also, anyone know where to get those giant trochus?  I got 4 when they were 1.5" from CnC and now they're about size of a baseball.  I would love to get more of those.

Roy has some trochus that are bigger than some of his fish.

Looks great! I am surprised you can keep those bottom corals so clean with that sand sifting goby.

I want to thank everyone for making this event successful. A lot of great deals and great corals! Here are some of the corals that I picked up at the Frag Fest.

Frag Fest
Saturday, October 5 of 2019
11 AM to 4 PM

Event Location:
Boys & Girls Club of SW Washington
Clinton & Gloria John Clubhouse
409 NE Anderson Road
Vancouver, WA 98665

On 9/12/2019 at 8:50 AM, grassi said:

After two years the tank is doing fantastic!

The kids would enjoy more corals and something new to look at.
Does anyone have some to donate? The tank is 20 gallons or so. We have an AI Prime single light. 

Easy corals are better

Thanks!

If you are at the show Saturday. I can bring some corals in the afternoon.

THOUSANDS OF CORALS at Oct 5th Frag Fest

Talking to all the Attendees: 
 Huge variety, name brand corals. I think your odds are good to find some corals you will take home with you. Hope to see you Saturday!

7 hours ago, zorroreef said:

I don't agree with the "early bird" tickets, not so much fair for others who can not attend early, looks more like private even,are the vendors going to limit quantities and warranty opportunity for other people who attend during the event hours?

There should be thousands corals available this weekend. I don't think they will be gone in a hour.