Starting my First Reef!!! Advice, help, anyone with any opinions would be great!

[danelam]

hot anemone! Where'd you get it?

 

[KathyC]

Very cute seahorses Nikki..best of luck with them!!


Is that a seaCOW in your avatar? lol

 

[nikkibabee]

I have come a long way thanks to this board!! Made great friends too!!! :Hug:
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[inkblue]

:Blurp: hi leopardS

 

[charliethetuna88]

if u need any help let me know i will be more than helpful for lighting i would go with 250 metal halide 10 or 12 k im going to change my bulbs next week to 12k reeflux i will let u know what i think of them and if u wanna check it out ur more than welcome to

 

[nikkibabee]

Yes please let me know...I am thinking of selling my lights and downgrading!

 

[jhale]

who sold you the tang/Naso lopezi? that fish gets to be almost 2' long.
you might have to upgrade your tank size sooner than you thought.

If you change your lights I would go with a DE 250W. Is the 400 heating the tank too much?

 

[nikkibabee]

I am the nursery school Jonathan! I plan to donate him to a bigger tank when he gets too big! I got him from WWOF and Steve did tell me that it would be too big for my tank before I also let him know it was temporary housing! But thanks :wink1: I was thinking of single ended 250w as per Phil's advice. I put a screen under the light so my tank hangs out around 78.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Looks great Nikki!! How many fish do you have in total and did it make the tank harder to care for?

I like the lots of fish look, and wouldnt mind a pair of pearly jawfish for my tank. How deep is your sandbed?

-Kris

 

[nikkibabee]

Hey Kris...I have 2 tanks...In the big tank I have 6 baby fish....and in the seahorse tank I have 4 sea horses, 2 jawfish, 2 pipe fish and a goby. I like lots of different color fish in the big tank it looks cool....not much color besides yellows in the cube. The sand bed is 5-6inches...but the jawfish have been living in the holes of the rocks not the sand:irked:And I don't know yet about harder to take care of about the tanks...I just got 3 of the fish.

 

[DevIouS]

Looking good Nikky...:flower:


You can do either SE or DE...
I just mentioned SE because I have bulbs I can hook you up with

 

[probe dms]

i'd like to see a pic of you nikki baby! ...i just finished my cycle and ill have my own thread soon. this one was so kool. nice job nikki.

 

[nikkibabee]

Very cute seahorses Nikki..best of luck with them!!


Is that a seaCOW in your avatar? lol

Heehee...its a COWfish!

 

[nikkibabee]

 

[Alexxn]

Nice Favia ya got there

 

[nycmat]

man nikki your tank almost looks as good as you. . nah real nice. keep up the good work

 

[inkblue]

it'S nice

 

[nikkibabee]

Hey All, So I still have a tank..heehee...a year later...its not as big or great as most of yours but here are some new pics of my modest tank... The pics are a bit blue, sorry I don't havea great cam!

 

[nanoreefer22]

Looks good Nikki!

How bigs the tank? 65g?

 

[nikkibabee]

58gal