Anyone here have a salt tank? Would love to chat about your tank or mine. 30 long Nano reef, lots of corals, one yellow headjaw fish, unknown blenny (its not in any book Iv looked at), lots of inverts and of course my favourite shrimp is my pair of Harlquin shrimp.
I have about three years as a hobbiest under my belt and I work with saltwater fish as well so you are free to ask me anything as well if you have any questions you maybe to shy to ask in person. :birdy:
Also interested in talking about geckos, have two girls myself.
Maybe everyone wants to post pictures of their pets?
Got a 29gal salt water myself. Been kind of struggling to keep it going the first couple of years. Seems somewhat stable now. Only just have a yellow tail damsel, an urchin and a couple of hermit crabs. A moderate amount of live rock. I wasn't really going for a full on live coral setup like you have.
Were you wanting a small fish/invert tank with some clowns and hardy easy coral? Mine has changed dramaticly three times in the past two years. I started with no sand and hospitalized a very sick clown trigger, then got him a new home once he was fat and healthy. Kept some maroon clowns then added sand with a few other agressive fish like my flame hawk. But I missed my Harluqin shrimp so I striped my tank again and have slowly been added to what it is now. I'll post a pick in a few minutes to show you. Alot of frags and recuse corals in healing so its not at its full potential.
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I was mostly going for small fish and invert as you said. Not really much towards the coral direction. For a while I had an eel. A pet store was getting out of dealing with salt water and the eel was the last thing left. So, I kind of rescued it in a sense. While I had it, it limited what I could put into the tank.
I would like to get a shrimp or two but been a little nervous how stable the tank is. Seems to be doing fine so far, since there really isn't much in the tank to begin with. I'd really hate to start over again since it takes months to get the levels back up when starting fresh again.
Honestly shrimp are low bioload so your safe. I can always help you too if you came to my store. If you want pm me and I'll tell which store n help you out alittle. :)
Hi, Duke here. I'd love to talk about geckos.
First off, what breed of geckos do you own? I myself have a leopard gecko, I've owned her for about 8 months so far and she is almost a year old.
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff439/Lonesoldier/DSC00002_zps50224a8e.jpg (http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff439/Lonesoldier/DSC00002_zps50224a8e.jpg)
Here she is hiding in her log, being nocturnal, she is much more active at night.
: Duke July 29, 2013, 05:20:34 -06:00
Hi, Duke here. I'd love to talk about geckos.
First off, what breed of geckos do you own? I myself have a leopard gecko, I've owned her for about 8 months so far and she is almost a year old.
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff439/Lonesoldier/DSC00002_zps50224a8e.jpg (http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff439/Lonesoldier/DSC00002_zps50224a8e.jpg)
Here she is hiding in her log, being nocturnal, she is much more active at night.
I have two crested geckos females, Princess Peach and Princess Zelda lol
Probably had them for over a year, both are rescues from a good friend. They were super skinny when she got them and she gave them to me to fatten up which Zelda is pretty big now but Peach as far as she was told is 8 years old so she is just filling back in.
Feeding them a fruit mix with Gecko diet and crickets randomly, Peach loves them but Zelda has no interest at all. In a 30 tall with two large caves and three long branches of fake ivy vines.
Haha, nice names. Do you have any pictures of them?
I grabbed my gecko, (Milo is her name) as petcetera on sale ($30 bucks!). Been feeding her a diet consisting of only mealworms until recently she would not eat them anymore. I guessing they aren't very visually stimulating so I was forced to switch to crickets. Only lame thing about crickets is that they are very noisy, especially since I keep my gecko in my room.
I kept a saltwater tank since about febuary this year (2013). It started small and i was afraid cause i had herd of the costs.. But it was great, had two snails, a few hermits and a blue chromis and we converted a green spotted puffer fish to salt water he didnt die, we had to take him back tho when we upgraded our tank. just to start ya know? used distilled water through out all of my tank changes and what not. worked great!
Eventually though we upgraded the little 8 gal we had to a 26 gal bow front. Lovely tank! this is when we also got a blue accented light as well. Looked very pretty. We eventually did a lionfish in that tank. However he died when the pet stores didnt get feeder shrimp in for 3 weeks x.x We also got a yellow watchmen gobie and a pistol shrimp (Very cute btw! would recommend if you like to see the cute couple sitting side by side in front of there hole). Eventually though we decided we should get some corals. did a trip to kelowna and got a purple plate coral (Very awesome!) and a green swollen brain coral (Also very neat!).
However.. we got a 46 gal bow front. So we did a big tank change. Was a lot of work but was sweet after. We eventually got a pair of moorish idols.. neat fish but i personally think they arnt worth the effort. kept them going for about a month then the 1 of them went nuts and killed off the other one :s
So we had to get rid of the final idol after he went for our clown fish pair. :(
They also introduced ich into our tank. NOT cool man those fish where dicks.
Would do salt water again and would love to show people that it isnt that scary x3
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This is before their new tank, But Peach is the one looking up, and Zelda is the one looking straight on from the glass
: Toxin Tractor July 30, 2013, 03:49:17 -06:00
I kept a saltwater tank since about febuary this year (2013). It started small and i was afraid cause i had herd of the costs.. But it was great, had two snails, a few hermits and a blue chromis and we converted a green spotted puffer fish to salt water he didnt die, we had to take him back tho when we upgraded our tank. just to start ya know? used distilled water through out all of my tank changes and what not. worked great!
Eventually though we upgraded the little 8 gal we had to a 26 gal bow front. Lovely tank! this is when we also got a blue accented light as well. Looked very pretty. We eventually did a lionfish in that tank. However he died when the pet stores didnt get feeder shrimp in for 3 weeks x.x We also got a yellow watchmen gobie and a pistol shrimp (Very cute btw! would recommend if you like to see the cute couple sitting side by side in front of there hole). Eventually though we decided we should get some corals. did a trip to kelowna and got a purple plate coral (Very awesome!) and a green swollen brain coral (Also very neat!).
However.. we got a 46 gal bow front. So we did a big tank change. Was a lot of work but was sweet after. We eventually got a pair of moorish idols.. neat fish but i personally think they arnt worth the effort. kept them going for about a month then the 1 of them went nuts and killed off the other one :s
So we had to get rid of the final idol after he went for our clown fish pair. :(
They also introduced ich into our tank. NOT cool man those fish where dicks.
Would do salt water again and would love to show people that it isnt that scary x3
You find alot of people upgrade as they enjoy the hobby more and more, and think this hobby is hard when really it isn't just do alittle research and take care of them like any other animal
I had a lion awhile ago, but I got a Panther grouper that had ich and killed the lion sadly :( So now I keep alot of inverts. Like my Harlequin shrimp pair and lots of fun little crabs.
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Those shrimp are awesome!
Personally I loved my pistol shrimp and gobie. Though I also did love coral banded shrimp, dispite them not liking other shrimp (Mainly cleaners) they are awesome. Ours was a female x3
Yeah we lost one of our clowns to ich, it was the smaller male :s the female was a bitch tho, thing bit me so many times :<
I do love my inverts tho. And my corals x3
Next Ill be sure to show some pictures later once i get them off my phone :3 :-3
I designed this tank around the Harlequins, the cave their in I glued a bunch of little pieces of rock together so some light got in but not enough so they wouldnt like it. Its funny the female sits on her lazy butt and makes the male drag the star half the time by himself to her for dinner then she starts helping once its at her feet. Such a strange pair. Then the yellowhead jaw fish and the white porcelain crab are like grumpy old men who fight over the law. The yellowhead will nip at him well he waves his claws saying Bring it bro (always how it looks when they act it out) LoL. Then I have two bumble bee shrimp who are like whiney little kids trying to steal from the Harlequins. They always bicker between the two and steal the suckers off the star fishes legs well the female Harlequin keeps gentle batting them away. My tank is its own drama show lol. :popcorn:
Ha! Those are the cutest geckos I've seen.
I am not sure about crested geckos but the undersides of leopard gecko's feet don't adhere to glass. Still that doesn't stop mine from trying lol.
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^ These guys, the leaf tailed geckos, easily can do it. I thought it would be neat to own a few. I figured it would be hard to regulate temperature and humidity as they originate from the tropics of Madagascar and the like.
That's why I got a leopard, the easiest, most simple one to take care of. Still, I'm planning on getting a beardie soon. I got a tank from my room mate he use to keep a snake (A garder I think, I'm probably wrong about this) and that looks like a 25-30 gallon tank.
My friend who gave them to me breeds leaf tails and leopards. She says its easy but she has a talent with geckos. I personal have.more of a talent for Chameleons, nursed a sick dying one from a store and he lived longer then the vets said he would. He died peacefuly in my arms this year, I was sad but at least he was well taken care for. I hand fed him and watered him for a year, it was trying at times but he finally came around.