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  1. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    I have been running my powerhead and I followed exactly what you said for transferring the rock and fish while changing out the sand. Unless there was a part where you said "leave them in the bucket for 2-3 days while the sand settles" and I missed that part...? Also, we rinsed the sand quite a...
  2. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    So my sg is up to slightly over 1.025! I don't feel like the candy canes are "open" necessarily, but my gf seems to think they seem more open and responsive during the light-on periods. I noticed in some LFS they keep the candy canes higher up on shelves that are basically right underneath the...
  3. janky

    Starting Soon

    Yeah. They are really cool/rare, I'll give you that! Keep us posted, I'm interested in seeing these guys in action - I've only seen one before at a LFS and I freaked out like "OMG what is THAT!!!!" haha :D
  4. janky

    Starting Soon

    oh wow. seems like a lot of work to keep shrimp!! Would you have a separate tank for the starfish? Those harlequins are really cool but I couldn't imagine having to set up a whole 'nother tank just for their food
  5. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    Got it up to 1.025. I'll give it a couple days and see if the corals seem to respond better. I saw on facebook that BRA has a Meteor shower cyphastrea... insane looking coral!!! I am pretty sure its sps/mh-only/out of my league for now lol :D but if anyone's going out there for their weekend...
  6. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    I tested it like 2 days ago.. still at zeros, 8.2 pH. SG was a whopping 1.022 though :/ Made some top off water w reef salt and it went up to 1.024. I've got a bucket aerating over night for a 15% WC tomorrow. Annnnnnnnnd I feel stupid lol.. I read the back of the reef salt package and it...
  7. janky

    Starting Soon

    That was me. I had an emergency and pleaded with them - and that's after I begged everyone in the Tacoma area and came up with nothing lol Really love this light though. I'd recommend it. hey you mentioned harlequin shrimp in your original post... those guys are really cool lookin! What do...
  8. janky

    Starting Soon

    I just bought a CAD light from bra! :) It's really cool.. I dunno about the tanks, but the light is definitely legit. It looks like a futuristic cheese grater haha
  9. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    Right on, thanks for the words of encouragement guys. My candy cane is not really opening up. It's still insanely bright colored and not droopy or sad looking or anything, but it just won't open... even when I spot feed it mysis. I'm going to try topping off and raising the salinity a bit...
  10. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    I'm sure. I already want to convert my 75 g into salt so I can have lions or puffers... but I hear neither are reef-friendly. That, and I have some really cool freshwater friends I'm pretty attached to that love that huge tank :) IPisces I think that 3 gal pico was the one I saw on wafishbox...
  11. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    Thanks Tuku.. you guys are right, I mean I knew everything wouldn't go flawlessly right off the bat. That, and everyone told me that starting out with saltwater in a small tank like that is asking for trouble because everything happens so fast in a tiny, concentrated tank. Of course I had to be...
  12. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    Thanks. Are you up at Red Sea? I'm pretty open friday afternoon or sat. Yeah. I just got eager to get some life in there. I gotta get rid of the crab and get a better powerhead for sure...do you think I'd need two of them? This one that I bought is waaay too much. Any direction I point it...
  13. janky

    Coral vandals!

    This is sickening. If it IS activists, what the hell is the logic in killing an animal that you're trying to save?!?! Doesn't make a bit of sense. A pissed off reefer/ex-employee/or just some destructive college kid who learned what copper does to corals in a bio class... that I could see being...
  14. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    lol, you should've sold me some of that unused equipment then! :D Yeah, I'm just mad. I'll get over it. All my experience is with freshwater, and I lost a couple guppies getting started there lol... had a crayfish eat a rare and expensive pleco.. etc. etc. Sooo if anyone is interested in an...
  15. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    ...annnnd my emerald crab is eating my two spot goby. wtf. I'm about to just part this tank out and be done with saltwater. This has been a horribly expensive disaster.
  16. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    That'd be really cool actually! Thank you for the offer! I would be interested. You ever come out to the Tacoma area??
  17. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    There's flow from the HOB filter. Also, there isn't a smaller one :)
  18. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    Well things are taking a turn for the worst. The shrimp and crabs seem ok, but the fish are toast. My two spot goby is laying lifelessly and letting the water current just push him around. My green clown goby is covered in some weird film?? I have never seen anything like this... (hard to...
  19. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    Thank you NC2WA.. that extra filter did help. My tank was almost clear when I woke up this morning!! :D So it's all good news; All my animals are alive, just a little shocked. Everyone's accounted for! I got my first corals ever; a candy cane and a favia frag. The light is mounted, works like a...
  20. janky

    First SW tank.. tons of dumb questions! Help a newb get started? :)

    I probably have a carbon pad laying around somewhere.. ill check. And not a problem - dude the bag was only like $10 and my gf said she'd buy the other... I planned on kickin $10 your way for gas $$ anyway haha Family is more important! I'm just stressed hoping that my shrimps/gobies/crab...
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