My 40 Gallon

Subject: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:53 am

I have a 40 gallon soon to be reef. I will try and get pics up later.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:15 am

Looking forward to seeing the pics.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:41 am

Sweet a salty keeper!

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:58 am

For now these will have to do.

Ancient picture of my tank.
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Fish

and here is my old valentini puffer pair.
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and their tank.
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Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:00 pm

Cool, I wish I could afford to start something salty. I am broke as of now cause of my last visit to the lfs.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:44 pm

Beautiful fish!

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:52 pm

Thanks. I need more update pics.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:54 pm

Nice fish, pufferfreak.

WYite

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:03 pm

Very nice! We could use a salty around here. Welcome and keep up the good posts.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:05 pm

Ahem. "Reefer" Wink

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Heh. I'm not thinking the puffers I want would ever get along with a reef. Smile

Over the summer, a fish store by me needed a home for two porcupine puffers (Diodon holacanthus) I don't do and am not set up for saltwater, but if I ever do, I am totally setting up a tank for one of them. Personality wise they were one of the coolest salties I've ever seen.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:26 pm

Two porcs would require a huge tank!!! I would say 200g at the least. lol. Probably not a good beginner puffer if you want a small tank Razz

. Soft coral reefs really arent as hard as they make out to be. I had a FW for 3 weeks before i got tired of it and set up my first reef Razz

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Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:11 pm

Got a sailfin a while back Smile

. Pics coming soon Very Happy

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*Okay here we are. When he was acclimating in the bowl one of your parakeets flew into it!!! :mad:. Thank god that she didnt scratch up franklin Smile

. I had to give the parakeet a nice FW bath though lol. He has gotten right to cleaning up the algae and he is an excuse to upgrade. Since the tank is my dad and ours project i made sure he new it would get 15 inches big and that we would be upgrading to a 125g aquarium Very Happy

. He's only four 1/2 inches big though so we have about 8 months or a year...okay here they are. :happy:

Acclimating

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In the tank Very Happy

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Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:31 pm

So, PF, you must be the guest always on form California. I see it on the watching thing on the portal. What wuold be a good size stater for a reef. Maybe ble to talk grandfather into it instead of the 30 tall FW or could do the 30 tall FW and 29 SW.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:34 pm

Depends on lots of things really. Like what fish you want and such. Theres a thing on the portal that shows where people are from? lol i didn't know that. Yeah i wll drop in from time to time.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:38 pm

Oh there is Razz

. I have that disable on my forum for safety reasons since it shows the exact location of where a person lives and most people don't want the whole world knowing where they live and if they wanted to they would fill out there profile so i forgot about it lol.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:53 pm

Well, only certain people. Shows me and you and occasionally some person from China. Well, would a Occel Clown, 2 Firefish, 2-3 Yellowtail Damsels. Will add various inverts. Just need to find some good articles on marine fish keeping.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:13 pm

I would go with a 30g.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:14 pm

Why not 29? Just a gallons difference.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:18 pm

Check these links. Best marine sources out on the web. NR has good articles on nano tanks and just by searching RC you can learn tons. WWM just has great articles on everything.

- www.ReefCentral.com
- www.Nano-Reef.com
- www.WetWebMedia.com

Well because 29g tanks are actually only 25g. Plus if you find a 30 long tank that will be the best.

Subject: Re: My 40 Gallon Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:28 pm

THx for the links. Oh, and my tank actually is 29 gallons. Did you mean Specifically made 29s for Saltwater? or other? I measured mine and put it's measurments into an aquarium calculator on a site called Aqua-fish.net