Hello fellow Reefers

[chickenofthesea]

My name is Josh and I am farely new to the hobby. I have had my reef tank set up for about 9 months now and am getting deeper and deeper into the hobbie all the time, I look forward to talked to a lot of you and taking in your wealth of knowledge.

 

[Peppie]

Welcome to RF
We have kinda of a motto, saying,request, whatever....
PICS OR IT NEVER HAPPENED. LOL

Now produce the proof



Please

Peppie

 

[chickenofthesea]

Hahaha, I like that. But I still haven't figured out how to get larger higher quality pics posted on here. Can you help?

 

[jill]

Welcome Josh,

Two years ago I found myself with a great big aquarium and had absolutely no idea how to care for it. We had it built and were going to pay a guy to maintain it. He was going to come 4 hours a week. For a 325 gallon system. It didn't take long for it to became apparent that was simply ridiculous. So, the money was already invested and I was stuck with the job.

Now I love my aquarium and even got a nano for my study.

I would not have been able to do it without the support of the wonderful people on this forum.

 

[Peppie]

Chicken
I use Photo bucket to post my pics.
Kirsh is good at explaining how to get your photos up.
He will chime in soon.
He greets 99.99% of the newbees here.

 

[chickenofthesea]

I just tried the Image Icon lets see if that works

 

[Peppie]

Yea that worked
Now keep those fingers busy. One is not enough. LOL

 

[chickenofthesea]

hahaha... I'll see what I can do. I have some other photos but I haven't been able to master the camera on aquarium action yet. They still look a little sad This pic is an old pic before I created my main show piece in the first pic. The Candy Cane looks bad but I got it for free from someone who didn't want it and now it is doing much better

 

[chickenofthesea]

These are mostly older photos. I promise I will take better ones when I flip the lights on tomorrow and update you guys with my treasures.

 

[Krish]

Nice photos!!

Here is a way to go about posting photos. It's the method I typically use. HTH! http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/f236/how-post-photos-images-not-attachments-59241/

 

[Frankie]

I had a sail boat named Chicken Of the Sea once

Welcome to RF!

 

[chickenofthesea]

Not very focused but this is a rather large colony of Radio Active Dragons Eye, Eagles eye, and What someone told me was Armor of God but I think its just Metallic Green Zoa's.

 

[chickenofthesea]

This is a picture of my new frag rack with some Alpha and Omega I just picked up, The Red Mushroom I have thats not doing so well, a few frags from that larger colony I have and a frag or two of a huge piece of white star polyps I had. One under just my Actinic Light and the other under the Actinic and my white LED's.

 

[chickenofthesea]

This is a piece of Candy Cane I just picked up in Seattle from a fellow Reefer. In the background is another piece of that White Star Polyp

 

[chickenofthesea]

This pic is a side view of my entire tank. The Center piece I custom made with dead rock by super glueing the pieces together. It weighs about 50#. In the lower left of this pic is my mushroom propagation garden as I call it. I just layed a whole bunch of rubble down and spread the mushroom cuttings amonst the rocks so they attach. I'll try to get more picks up when I finish my hood and ad my 250w MH on top, and try to get my Wife to take better photos with here nicer camera. Please let me know if you have any more questions or any advice to pass down to a newbie!

 

[Red C Aquarium]

Welcome Josh!

 

[chickenofthesea]

My Ricordea


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Pink Candy Cane


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Green Candy Cane


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Zoo Colony

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[pandora32]

Looks really good for 9 months Josh. How large is your system and what kind of equipment you got?

 

[chickenofthesea]

I have a 42g column. I have a Penn-plax 1000 canister filter and a CPR bak pak 2 skimmer. I run white LED's and T5 actinics.