Reef Tank

Nixy

Nixy

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I got a reef tank today! I am so excited! I bought it from a guy who already had it established so it's full of all kinds of awesome corals. I need to organize the tank still, it's a mess right now. Pics will come soon.

Who else here has tanks? Fresh or salt water? Any favourite tank inhabitants?

I have a sea urchin, I love him. I also have some baby starfish, I need to find them all so I can get some out of the tank and give them to other people...otherwise as they get bigger they'll kill each other. I don't think they like being in a tank with so many other stars of their own kind (they're only about 5-8mm across right now).
 
Nixy

Nixy

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You could never put a lion fish in with those other fish...he'd eat them.
 
Dave

Dave

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I've only got the three fresh water tanks. Once one of the tanks dies off, I'll try my hand at a salt water tank.
I've got mostly tetras and gouramis in the small tanks with convict cichlids in the 50 gal.
I do like the cichlids. They are tough fish. They've survived a couple tank breakdowns that have killed off the other tank mates.
 
Professur

Professur

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A buddy I work with builds tanks on the side ... big salt water ones. He's building right now one that's 1300G.
 
Nixy

Nixy

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Turns out the "baby starfish" are actually mostly full grown, asexual, coral eaters. They are being evicted as we speak. My reading indicates they eat the base of corals and that they multiply like rabbits...except that they actually multiply, they split in half.
 
Mirlyn

Mirlyn

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We have a 55g freshwater. Tetras, glass catfish, danios, a single gold molly (never again), corys (named Hoover, Dyson and Blissel), and an african frog.

Its time to restock. We'd like a snail, but too scared to try it. We're also slowly replacing the plastic plants with real ones.
 
tonksy

tonksy

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I bought the class aquarium 2 snails and a plecostamus (sp?). They do a fair job of cleaning up.
 
JTP

JTP

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Back in college (1980's) my roomate and I had an amphiuma in an aquarium. Now, that was a weird critter. It ate all our goldfish and anything else we put in, including crawfish. We finally released the voracious monster into Lake Seminole. It's probably 9 feet long and bulletproof by now.
 
Mirlyn

Mirlyn

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tonksy said:
I bought the class aquarium 2 snails and a plecostamus (sp?). They do a fair job of cleaning up.
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Thread inspired me to restock tonight. :D

One gold inca snail, one chineese algae eater, four blue gouramis (replacing the previous dwarfs; victims of the mollies), and four serpae tetras.
 
Nixy

Nixy

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I have hermit crabs. Will get some emerald crabs once the tank gets more settled...they're sensitive little creatures.
 
Mare

Mare

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Nixy said:
I got a reef tank today! I am so excited! I bought it from a guy who already had it established so it's full of all kinds of awesome corals. I need to organize the tank still, it's a mess right now. Pics will come soon.

Who else here has tanks? Fresh or salt water? Any favourite tank inhabitants?

I have a sea urchin, I love him. I also have some baby starfish, I need to find them all so I can get some out of the tank and give them to other people...otherwise as they get bigger they'll kill each other. I don't think they like being in a tank with so many other stars of their own kind (they're only about 5-8mm across right now).
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Where's the Picture's Tonks?
 
MrBishop

MrBishop

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Currently running only one tank...40gal. We recently had a death in the tank. Our pleco finally breathed his last. Thing was 12 years old and had survived electrocution.. damn big (9" long). I've got to clean the tank again..even though it'll piss off the crawdad.

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