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aquaman781

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Hello everyone name is john and ive been into fish keeping my whole life and recently set up a 55 gallon tank. just wanted to see what you all thought and maybe give me some tips and advice other than that of my lfs :).

55 gallon no sump
coralife 65 (modified collection cup lol)
4 powerheads pushing about 1400 gph
60 lbs of natures ocean live sand
50-60 pounds of lr

tank has been up and running for 3 months
fish- 2 firefish 1 clown 1 longnose hawk 1 scooter blenny (assorted cuc mainly nassarius & turbos)

coral- mushroom leather, green buton polyp, waving hand, kenya tree


"edit" lighting on the cheap side dual ho with actinic 420 and 65k daylight
 
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pdawg

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Welcome! You look like your doing good, the only thing I could recommend from personal experience is adding a sump/fuge, they work wonders. And also, you have a 3 month old tank with a scooter, scooters only eat pods so I would recommend adding a bottle of cope-pods every couple of months until they get established
 
BLADEYAMAHA

BLADEYAMAHA

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lbiminiblue

lbiminiblue

Well-Known Member
Welcome. I kept a 55 for a few months and recently started a 120 gallon. Are you entirely new to saltwater? Are you going to do a reef tank? BTW you can follow my reef chronicle at "the quest for 120"
 
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aquaman781

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I have kept fish from tetras to cichlids for years never tried salt water before, but i got a job at a local lfs almost a year ago and have been working in the fish department with both fw and sw. So 3 months ago i decided to go reef :)
 
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aquaman781

New Member
And btw im not one of those pet store guys that takes corprate training seriously and gives out information that i dont know anything about i actually love sw customers i learn more from them then they learn from me xD
 
sk8rdn

sk8rdn

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Welcome to RS!
Nice to see someone trying to do right by LFS customers. Greatly appreciated.

....Salt Creep Is Everywhere!....
 
Blue Space

Blue Space

Well-Known Member
welcome to RS aquaman! :D Thanks for telling us about your tank. One rule here on RS is that if you don't have pics -it doesn't exist! Just kiddin ya! But we sure would like to see some! :invisible
 
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aquaman781

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Of course and i dont think i have gotten a good nights sleep in months! Completly hooked i cant stop studying every little detail of sw experts success and failures
 
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