welcome all from the noob reefer.

[tricksterya]

Hey all. Just wanted to say hi. Also like to give a shout out to Ipisces. With her help my tank is done with the round one coral addition. Highly recommend her for the knowledge and selection and care. Anyway. 90 gal reef tank (in the making) 20 gal sump with skimmer...

 

[user 26995]

Hey, welcome to RF. Thanks for the shout out! and we will leave it at that.

Okay, So tell us more about the system and livestock.

 

[tricksterya]

Well its a 90 gal typical size, has 20 gal over flow tank with a decent size skimmer. I have about 90 pounds of live rock and about 50 lounds of live sand. As far as fish I only have a 6 stripe wrathe so far and coral, ummm its colorfull lol. As far as specifics, I bought about 75% from u (ipisces) so can u give me info. I want a red bubble aninomi with a pair set of clowns. A colorful tang and some inverts.. looking for suggestions. Running 2x250 MH 4xT5 lighting

 

[user 26995]

good inverts are atrea snails, dwarf blue legged crabs and scarlet reef crabs. do you have sand in your tank? Or doing bare bottom? If you have sand Nasarious snails and sand sifting starfish are a great addition.

Good tangs for the smaller tanks are Tomini tangs and yellow eye kole tangs. Yellow tangs will work too. Get them on the small side. Most of them get pretty big and require a larger tank. But those are smaller tangs. I use Liveaquaria.com quite often to get info on fish.

 

[NC2WA]

Welcome to RF!

Before I give suggestions, I would like to know what theme do you want in your tank?

Fish only, reef, mixed?

if fish, how many fish do you want? (or for that matter how many fish can your skimmer support (aka bio load)?

 

[tricksterya]

I am going with the mainly coral and inverts.. i want a few colorful fish as well but they would be the harder to kill fish and i have had terrible luck in the past with numerous tangs... I got out of the hobby because of the navy transfering me cross country and deploying but now getting back into it. i screwed up last time and had some coral killers, so this time no coral killers but i still want maybe 5-8 fish and as many cool inverts with coral as i can put in there. i have a decent size skimmer i bought from shark reef(silverdale) so i am not worried about the skimmer at this point..

 

[NC2WA]

so a 90g tank? i take it you might want a tang? personally, if you are added tangs, i would only add one, but that is me.

what brand of skimmer do you have?

 

[tricksterya]

Its the ASM skimmer, cant remember the model, paid like 150, at work so i cant look at the moment.

 

[NC2WA]

Good skimmer. .just make sure u get a cup full of skimmate a week

Its the ASM skimmer, cant remember the model, paid like 150, at work so i cant look at the moment.

 

[tricksterya]

Is that even when I don't have but one small fish in it? Mine isn't making near that, I need to investigate how to ensure its running properly.

 

[NC2WA]

this when you have a bioload to support such skimmate production.

 

[tricksterya]

Got it. Another question but I can't add a signature to my posts. Is that something that comes once I have posted more or been active for a while?

 

[NC2WA]

nope..

need to edit your profile by using Settings.

it is on the tab upper right corner, next to Notfications.

then on the left hand side, you should see Edit Signature.

 

[tricksterya]

Ok so i have looked and searched. i dont have the option to edit signature. must not be available for me.

 

[ReefGeeker]

hit settings in the upper right corner, then the option to edit signature will be on the left side of your screen, hope this helps.

 

[NC2WA]

First, do you see Settings next to My Profile in the upper right hand corner of the screen?

if you click Settings, then a My Settings section should be display on the left hand side of the screen...
do you see that?

 

[cruzanm]

Welcome! I don't post often but there are tons of amazing people on this forum to get some quality info from.

 

[tricksterya]

Yes that did it. thanks...