New to Reef Sanctuary

[road2runner]

Hey guys im new to this place and let me just say..... WOW!! this place is fan-friggen-tastic. its an wealth of of imformation and basically answered all of my questions so far. Ive bin keeping saltwater fish for a couple years now with fairly good success..... and like any person on this site..... i want more!!! i decided that im going to transform my 29g salt tank into a reef tank. i updated my crapy store canopy lights to a T-5 double linear strip with an 18 watt 10,000K daylight fluorescent and a 18 watt actinic blue fluorescent! im pretty excited about the new look in my tank. now i am in the process of building a 20g sump (with the help and advice of reef sanctuary). once the sump is up and running im going to add some corals but im not sure if i want soft or hard... any ideas? suggestions? ive done some research as to what corals are more hardy and better for beginner coral keepers. i do like some of the mushrooms out there as well as a couple of the finger leathers. im going to document the transformation of my tank with every new additon and change that i make to it. i look forward to asking many silly questions and getting all your guys' help and advice.

thanks in advance everyone.



John

 

[Dentoid]

Welcome John, glad to have you aboard!

 

[prow]

hey welcome. i suggest you stick with mushes and lps to get you started.
REEF ON!!!!!!!!!!

 

[goldenmean]

Howdy Hooooo!
Welcome to RS!

We would love to see some pics of your current set up!

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Welcome, welcome, welcome! Warning; we are picture junkies/hogs, so eye candy please!:apimp:

 

[road2runner]

ok this is for all the picture junkies... bare with me i know my tank is really dirty hahaha. im in the process of gathering and good cleanup crew. so far i have a blue tuxedo urchin, who is doing one heck of a job by the way. any suggestions for good cleanup?? snails? more urchins? i dont want to get too many urchins, or snails for that matter, and have them starve and die.


this is the beginning of the transformation.......

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Where dem pics, what am, I missing?

 

[road2runner]

yeah.... ummm..... for some reason i cant upload any pictures.... i followed the instructions.... and then nothing happend.......????

 

[road2runner]

ok... let me try again... hopefully this works this time

 

[AQTCJAK]

Welcome Aboard

 

[rebekwl]

Hi Road2runner! Welcome to RS!

 

[Craig Manoukian]

You'll have fun turning that into a reef tank. The lion will be a challenge in that it will eat lots of the things reef.

 

[lcstorc]

Welcome to RS