Trinituner Fish Keepers, Aquarists & Aquascapers...

[sharkman121]

surprise men like uml and sharkman ...not all over this "epic" tank.

i deliberately choose not to get involved, i jus reading.

[HondaB20B]

come on kes ....really ?

if the man tank so "epic" shouldn't you be seeking HIS advice. or are you just here to be a fan boy and make him feel good .

you want advice, tank + salt + water + rock now get started if you really setting up a tank

kes all you doing is sticking the pole higher up b20b's ass !!!

surprise men like uml and sharkman ...not all over this "epic" tank.

pics or it didn't happen .....steupsss

Yuh does really know who your friends are yes?
Mr DEADFISH........................ CONTINUE. GO AHEAD!!!! !
I DECIDED TO STAY OFF THIS POST AND THIS IS D NONSENSE GOING ON?
AND BY THE WAY MR DEADFISH, I ONLY SHOW CERTAIN PEOPLE (FRIENdS) MY SOCALLED TANK................hmmmmmm............... guess you wont be seeing it then.
Again, try not to start no SH!T on d forum please. Kes if you want me check me by Hagen Daz

[HondaB20B]

KES, if yuh want info, google is your friend................. or even youtube. better yet, deadfish could help yuh out

[kes_vtec]

maybe i was not clear, and at the end of the end, ONE MAN, can't know everything, i know how hondab20 is and when the new house is here, i will rope him in, but again i looking to start simple, just see if i am really cut out for this, i am sure there are guys here with "simple" tanks, who just trying stuff out, guys who are doing it for the fun and or tech of the hobby. who enjoy balancing PHs and are looking for better ways to do it and sheit like that.

and Mr hondab20, Google how to build a frank, tell how me many answers you would get a motor that last 5 yrs plus

and mr fish mother f'ing EPIC... i don't know it you saw it.
now i know how you are, so maybe you can help me out?
i don't mr sharkman, and i don't care for "politics" i have a open mind, so do feel free

[sharkman121]

Kes_vtec, ok what do you have so far. what size tank? u looking to go fish only or coral as well.

Basic item u gonna need to begin are:

tank
salt mix
sand/aragonite
test kits... nitrates, nitrites, phosphate, ph etc..
protein skimmer
ro-di unit...
lighting

these are just the beginner items. Yr tank is gonna need to cycle, we'll discuss that process in depth once we move on.


an Dean is a good guy and tries to help even though he does get on like an arse when he ready

[kes_vtec]

mr sharkman121, i can confirm, that hondab20 is an royal ass, but he is one of the best asses out there... lol

now i am a techie type person fishes to start with for the first 2 months, i am loooking a solar-power and automation off the top. but that is just me...

help with the fish part, that for the kids

[HondaB20B]

Kes, i invited you at my home and i didnt expect you to post it up.......... next time, keep it tuh you & yuh family. And tell yuh wanna-be nissan driving honda pardnah tuh chill nah.
anyhow, when yuh ready, just give me a call. I'll try to give you some advise...................
AND I PROMISE I WONT LOOK DOWN AT YOU AND SHOUT.........

[sharkman121]

mr sharkman121, i can confirm, that hondab20 is an royal ass, but he is one of the best asses out there... lol

[kes_vtec]

Kes, i invited you at my home and i didnt expect you to post it up.......... next time, keep it tuh you & yuh family. And tell yuh wanna-be nissan driving honda pardnah tuh chill nah.
anyhow, when yuh ready, just give me a call. I'll try to give you some advise...................
AND I PROMISE I WONT LOOK DOWN AT YOU AND SHOUT.........

ONE duh let me post the pixs of the Three tanks you have... "spoiler", you know how you duh lie when you ready, and two... let me make this clear, i have NO Nissan driving friends.

i just looking for openness...

[deadfish13]

sharkman gave the man advice ....and he completely ignore it.
instead he continued with his fan boy worship

kes not serious about setting up a tank ....

i going toco tomorrow ...kes you some sand ?

[kes_vtec]

the ro-di unit, help me with that one, i have been doing some goggling with that one...
what am i looking for?

[UML]

kes, why not ask him for advice? he and sharkman have a wealth of knowledge in it.


I was hoping to set up my tank for the holidays but my aquarium man stick...literally

so i will set up after exams in january.

[UML]

the ro-di unit, help me with that one, i have been doing some goggling with that one...
what am i looking for?

u can start by looking for a US-made one.

[netsket]

mr sharkman121, i can confirm, that hondab20 is an royal ass, but he is one of the best asses out there... lol

now i am a techie type person fishes to start with for the first 2 months, i am loooking a solar-power and automation off the top. but that is just me...

help with the fish part, that for the kids

i like that idea of solar powering my tank. not electrically versed. what kind of solar power system would I need to hook up on my tank? a system to support 8 pieces of equipment eg pumps, chiller, protein skimmer, lighting, wave makers, etc.

[ARES0610]

Kes,
If you looking to set up a simple fish only with live rock (FOWLR) tank, all you really need is salt, powerheads, sand if you chose and LR. RO and a skimmer would make things easier but you don't need them.
I started my tank, about 2yrs ago as a FOWLR without any lights, skimmer or ro. When I added the skimmer my tank really cleaned up though. My skimmer has been off for the past month now with no ill effects, soft coral and clam growing a lot faster actually. With an un-established tank though a skimmer will really help you out.
To make things easier in the long run I would go with a drilled tank and a sump set up. My biggest regret is not having my tank drilled.
If you want coral all you need to add are lights. Soft coral are not demanding at all in terms of water quality. If you decide to try SPS you should wait for your tank to become a bit more established first.
If you have any more questions lmk.

[sharkman121]

mr sharkman121, i can confirm, that hondab20 is an royal ass, but he is one of the best asses out there... lol

now i am a techie type person fishes to start with for the first 2 months, i am loooking a solar-power and automation off the top. but that is just me...

help with the fish part, that for the kids

i like that idea of solar powering my tank. not electrically versed. what kind of solar power system would I need to hook up on my tank? a system to support 8 pieces of equipment eg pumps, chiller, protein skimmer, lighting, wave makers, etc.

its do-able but thats a big ask right there off the bat... combating algae issues will be your number one enemy. Im not too sure about the setup but check youtube, ive seen some there. Raj has his outside main tank sunlight powered as well.

[ramafingers1]

mr sharkman121, i can confirm, that hondab20 is an royal ass, but he is one of the best asses out there... lol

now i am a techie type person fishes to start with for the first 2 months, i am loooking a solar-power and automation off the top. but that is just me...

help with the fish part, that for the kids

i like that idea of solar powering my tank. not electrically versed. what kind of solar power system would I need to hook up on my tank? a system to support 8 pieces of equipment eg pumps, chiller, protein skimmer, lighting, wave makers, etc.

its do-able but thats a big ask right there off the bat... combating algae issues will be your number one enemy. Im not too sure about the setup but check youtube, ive seen some there. Raj has his outside main tank sunlight powered as well.

You sure? What is it, solar lights or something? Never pay much attention to how his tank setup though, and i afraid to ask him. (the man have some bright floodlight bulbs over his tank) I realize sometimes he does not like to answer certain questions. If its one thing though the tank is very nice. The corals real expensive though. I have to check out his tank when next i go by him and see if i can get some ideas. Sharkman, how you mean "combating algae issues will be your number one enemy" with the lights. i have some algae in my tank and it looks ok, even though it starting to cover alot of my rocks. The snails eating some of it, They leaving the red one, but i think i might have to get some kind of fish later on to eat it. Do you think if i get a hermit crab it will help? hope it dont take over my tank though. what kind of fish can i get. think i might buy an angel or two from him and see if that helps. He has a bright red one called a flame angel and a nice blue one with stripes, think its called a koran or koral. i have to check back and see if the can live together with my fish. Anybody ever buy the starfish from him? I think when i go by him thur or fri i will buy some water from him also. Hey kes, i dont know if you remember me but we met a few times by the dyno, you were testing a black civic (think a rasta guy owned it) do you think maybey i can meet you somewhere and i could go and see that tank you and redman talking about? It would really be nice cause i could even bring the wife and show her how nice it could be? Will send you a PM with my name and no. thanks

[Yodins]

Yuh do a water change yet? Start dey 50% of the water volume... If the drift wood new take it out soak it in a bucket and change that water every few days fuh a month....

You never mention if/what filter yuh using.... Size of tank amt of fish all that could be part d equation of what happening...

i do do water changes, like 25% every 2 weeks

driftwood is already "broken in" . it was in a pond for a couple months before and when moss grew on it i put it in the tank. It actually looked really cool.

Its a 3ft long, 1 foot wide, 18 inch tank with 6 goldfish (calico and oranda) of similar size and a yellow snail. it has a power pump like this one in it

[Yodins]

all this hullabaloo about b20b tank makin me tusty to see it man.
I still have the pics to upload , but de ting sayin it too big to post
...and i doh know how to resize

[Ronaldo95163]

^Any photo editing software should do the trick

[kes_vtec]

mr sharkman121, i can confirm, that hondab20 is an royal ass, but he is one of the best asses out there... lol

now i am a techie type person fishes to start with for the first 2 months, i am loooking a solar-power and automation off the top. but that is just me...

help with the fish part, that for the kids

i like that idea of solar powering my tank. not electrically versed. what kind of solar power system would I need to hook up on my tank? a system to support 8 pieces of equipment eg pumps, chiller, protein skimmer, lighting, wave makers, etc.

if you are looking to go solar power, you need to ask yourself, if you want to be 100% solar, or just main items of the tank or the secondary items of the tank.
once you know what items you want, find the total wattage, and that is how you will base you system. note when i say solar, i do mean wind also.
to get this simple you are looking at
watts of one item * hrs of use then find the sum of all the items and you will have total watts per hr for 1 day.
this will clue you in as to how to scale your system...

so in my case i need to know what items i will be looking to get before hand to build the system for it.

[kes_vtec]

Kes,
If you looking to set up a simple fish only with live rock (FOWLR) tank, all you really need is salt, powerheads, sand if you chose and LR. RO and a skimmer would make things easier but you don't need them.

To make things easier in the long run I would go with a drilled tank and a sump set up. My biggest regret is not having my tank drilled.

again forgive me...
explain "drilled tank"...
i want to do a salt water, start with 2 fishes, and "how again when you guys say "live rock" did you mean corals?

ramafingers1, duh feel ah how, i really bad with faces, what car you had/have, and trust me when i say this, i was tuning the "rassta" car and i have never been to his house, while i was tuning it, and we are the best of friends, that same person is hondab20, and again trust, if he duh wah you by he house, he duh wah you.
i'll ask him and see if he minds...

[sharkman121]

You sure? What is it, solar lights or something? Never pay much attention to how his tank setup though, and i afraid to ask him. (the man have some bright floodlight bulbs over his tank) I realize sometimes he does not like to answer certain questions. If its one thing though the tank is very nice. The corals real expensive though. I have to check out his tank when next i go by him and see if i can get some ideas. Sharkman, how you mean "combating algae issues will be your number one enemy" with the lights. i have some algae in my tank and it looks ok, even though it starting to cover alot of my rocks. The snails eating some of it, They leaving the red one, but i think i might have to get some kind of fish later on to eat it. Do you think if i get a hermit crab it will help? hope it dont take over my tank though. what kind of fish can i get. think i might buy an angel or two from him and see if that helps. He has a bright red one called a flame angel and a nice blue one with stripes, think its called a koran or koral. i have to check back and see if the can live together with my fish. Anybody ever buy the starfish from him? I think when i go by him thur or fri i will buy some water from him also. Hey kes, i dont know if you remember me but we met a few times by the dyno, you were testing a black civic (think a rasta guy owned it) do you think maybey i can meet you somewhere and i could go and see that tank you and redman talking about? It would really be nice cause i could even bring the wife and show her how nice it could be? Will send you a PM with my name and no. thanks

yeh raj runs some metal halide lighting 400watts, in conjunction with sunlight, thats how hes able to achieve such coloration from his coral in the tank. Algae is the enemy to me. "The red stuff" is most likely cyanobacteria which indicates a lack of flow and/or to much nutrients in the system.

Had a emperor angel and flame angel but sadly had a bad case of ich about a year ago which wiped out 5 fish.

i like the interest shown in the hobby by you guys though... any info needed all of us here will be more than willing to give advice.

[ARES0610]

Drilled tank is just that, a tank with a hole drilled in it to connect piping to allow water to overflow down to a sump.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_rock

Join this forum and start reading
http://www.3reef.com/

[thetriniman]

folks anyone knows who has good prices on koi vibrance ...except places like Pantins etc..

[ramafingers1]

You sure? What is it, solar lights or something? Never pay much attention to how his tank setup though, and i afraid to ask him. (the man have some bright floodlight bulbs over his tank) I realize sometimes he does not like to answer certain questions. If its one thing though the tank is very nice. The corals real expensive though. I have to check out his tank when next i go by him and see if i can get some ideas. Sharkman, how you mean "combating algae issues will be your number one enemy" with the lights. i have some algae in my tank and it looks ok, even though it starting to cover alot of my rocks. The snails eating some of it, They leaving the red one, but i think i might have to get some kind of fish later on to eat it. Do you think if i get a hermit crab it will help? hope it dont take over my tank though. what kind of fish can i get. think i might buy an angel or two from him and see if that helps. He has a bright red one called a flame angel and a nice blue one with stripes, think its called a koran or koral. i have to check back and see if the can live together with my fish. Anybody ever buy the starfish from him? I think when i go by him thur or fri i will buy some water from him also. Hey kes, i dont know if you remember me but we met a few times by the dyno, you were testing a black civic (think a rasta guy owned it) do you think maybey i can meet you somewhere and i could go and see that tank you and redman talking about? It would really be nice cause i could even bring the wife and show her how nice it could be? Will send you a PM with my name and no. thanks

yeh raj runs some metal halide lighting 400watts, in conjunction with sunlight, thats how hes able to achieve such coloration from his coral in the tank. Algae is the enemy to me. "The red stuff" is most likely cyanobacteria which indicates a lack of flow and/or to much nutrients in the system.

Had a emperor angel and flame angel but sadly had a bad case of ich about a year ago which wiped out 5 fish.

i like the interest shown in the hobby by you guys though... any info needed all of us here will be more than willing to give advice.

ok thanks, was reading up on increading flow and will check on that. my tank had ick recently but i used the herbtanna meds and it worked ok. maybe i caught it in time. Sharkman on another note, do you have corals growing in your tank and is it really hard to grow coral and stuff like mushrooms. It kinda looks interesting as you see it up close. from what i have read so far i dont realy need a chiller to keep them. saw some nice small pieces of mushrooms and the polyp coral by raj recently and really want to try them, cant afford the hard coral. most kinda on the high side though $$$$$$. If anything i'll buy one or two of the cheap ones and hope and pray they survive. what about the ones in toco and down the islands, can i just put that in my tank and it will grow and how do you feed them? What kinda lights do they need. hope it doesnt affect anything in my tank. my tank still young. whats your take on the red starfish.

[deadfish13]

corals like the polyps and the mushrooms not hard to keep. ask hondab20b .

anyone purchase a rodi unit from raj recently ? what you got and the cost ?

[sharkman121]

ok thanks, was reading up on increading flow and will check on that. my tank had ick recently but i used the herbtanna meds and it worked ok. maybe i caught it in time. Sharkman on another note, do you have corals growing in your tank and is it really hard to grow coral and stuff like mushrooms. It kinda looks interesting as you see it up close. from what i have read so far i dont realy need a chiller to keep them. saw some nice small pieces of mushrooms and the polyp coral by raj recently and really want to try them, cant afford the hard coral. most kinda on the high side though $$$$$$. If anything i'll buy one or two of the cheap ones and hope and pray they survive. what about the ones in toco and down the islands, can i just put that in my tank and it will grow and how do you feed them? What kinda lights do they need. hope it doesnt affect anything in my tank. my tank still young. whats your take on the red starfish.

yeh the mushrooms are some of the easier coral too keep, and i think hondab20 has really the most experience with them on this forum, he'll be able to answer most of yr questions when it comes to mushrooms.

Herbtana for me is kinda hit or miss, i used it already and it worked but there is no really 100% medication for ich eradication...unless you let the ich run its course and die out without having a host to survive.

i never got any livestock from toco, however ive gotten from tobago and grenada. Matter of fact i came back from the beach today in Grenada with some brain and bubble coral.

ive never had a starfish so i cant really say but from what ive heard and read they usually end up not eating and starving to death in yr tank, i can be wrong though. i may try my hand though as they arent too expensive.

[kurpal_v2]

Hey guys I finally got some time to go to a pet shop today and pickup some stuff I needed.


I picked up 4 small cichlids ($10 each wasnt bad imo) as my tank was empty for a month or two and only after I put the fish in I noticed mosquito lave have grown in the tank. Is it ok for the fish to stay around with them in the tank?

I dont have any "flow" in the tank right now as my filter still needs a propeller (whisper 4, anyone know where i could get one in south?) hopeing I get one by petshop boys in sando tomorrow.

[ramafingers1]

yeh the mushrooms are some of the easier coral too keep, and i think hondab20 has really the most experience with them on this forum, he'll be able to answer most of yr questions when it comes to mushrooms.
ok cool, i'll PM him.

Herbtana for me is kinda hit or miss, i used it already and it worked but there is no really 100% medication for ich eradication...unless you let the ich run its course and die out without having a host to survive.
ok

i never got any livestock from toco, however ive gotten from tobago and grenada. Matter of fact i came back from the beach today in Grenada with some brain and bubble coral.
wow, they mustbe real pretty. now google bubble coral and didnt know it had that there. Wish i can get some like that. you lucky to be across there to get that. how you going to bring it back home

ive never had a starfish so i cant really say but from what ive heard and read they usually end up not eating and starving to death in yr tank, i can be wrong though. i may try my hand though as they arent too expensive.
ok, wont bother then