Ericandcasey
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Hello there,
Casey and Eric from Delaware here..... We are new to the site and saltwater. We both have had various freshwater set-ups over the past 10 plus years and just started a 29gal bow front 3months ago. It started with an hour trip to Dr. Mac's - Pacific East Aquaculture. Not sure if anyone here has heard of him/them but they seem top notch for marine corals etc and are the only State Certified Aquaculture Facility in the tri-state area... PacificEastAquaculture.com is there website. While we dont have any coral in our tank the trip to there facility sparked our new saltwater addiction.
The first thing we did was shop around for fish tanks since we live down the shore we have two extremes, price gaugers and really resonable, you just have to find the latter. So we found a place called pet emporium of seaford in de which is about a 45 minute drive. We were just out to price items and found a great deal of a hood, light, stand, and tank for about 300 bucks total. So in all with decoration, salt and filters we ended up spending about 700 bucks. So we have a 29 gal bow front on a black finished stand, 2 Penguin 200 C bio-wheel power filters, and we have currently about 30 lbs of live rock. Currently our tank is a balmy 78 degrees and our fishes are loving it.
After our tank cycled we decided to go and buy damselfish, as everyone knows they're cheap and get things rolling. Well since I(Casey) not paying attention we got 3 blue and white damselfish at 17 bucks a pop. Then we we got some snails and mediterranean red crabs. We then decided to get a really beautiful coral beauty angelfish which we named Steve-O(we had just rented Jackass 2) and let the fishes have a few days. After that we purchased 2 blue damselfish which one is now if fishy heaven. Then about a week after that we got a black spiny sea urchin, a green bubble tip anemone which had a baby clarkii clownfish which we bestowed the name Chino(GO DEFTONES). We also got a coral banded shrimp name Jock(yes from Nemo). We also got a really cool chocalate chip starfish. Currently all of these are still alive.
We still purchased some more snails and crabs which included really cool anemone crabs, a blue starfish(which has perished today), Eric's dream fish a psychadelic mandarin dragonet named Salvador(after the artist), and an algae goby. To finish it off the last purchase that week made were 2 scarlet hermit crabs and 5 medium red crabs. On January 7th, we actually made a trip up to my hometown of Philadelphia and our last purchase was 2 black and white damselfish, another clarkii clownfish which our Chino is in love with, 3 emerald crabs, and a royal gramma(which has currently disappeared, we'll keep you posted should he return from the Bermuda triangle). =O)
To this date the only problem we had was a ph spike up to 8.8 which we quickly brought down with ph down and we thought our anemone was dying when in fact Betty(the anemone) was taking a poop. Hey we're first time parents and we weren't the only ones upset Chino was too. =) So that is our fish tank up to date which we love to sit and watch. We'd love to hear from everyone with what to look out for and your adventures in live rock saltwater tank raising.
THANKS FROM REHOBOTH BEACH, CASEY & ERIC!
Casey and Eric from Delaware here..... We are new to the site and saltwater. We both have had various freshwater set-ups over the past 10 plus years and just started a 29gal bow front 3months ago. It started with an hour trip to Dr. Mac's - Pacific East Aquaculture. Not sure if anyone here has heard of him/them but they seem top notch for marine corals etc and are the only State Certified Aquaculture Facility in the tri-state area... PacificEastAquaculture.com is there website. While we dont have any coral in our tank the trip to there facility sparked our new saltwater addiction.
The first thing we did was shop around for fish tanks since we live down the shore we have two extremes, price gaugers and really resonable, you just have to find the latter. So we found a place called pet emporium of seaford in de which is about a 45 minute drive. We were just out to price items and found a great deal of a hood, light, stand, and tank for about 300 bucks total. So in all with decoration, salt and filters we ended up spending about 700 bucks. So we have a 29 gal bow front on a black finished stand, 2 Penguin 200 C bio-wheel power filters, and we have currently about 30 lbs of live rock. Currently our tank is a balmy 78 degrees and our fishes are loving it.
After our tank cycled we decided to go and buy damselfish, as everyone knows they're cheap and get things rolling. Well since I(Casey) not paying attention we got 3 blue and white damselfish at 17 bucks a pop. Then we we got some snails and mediterranean red crabs. We then decided to get a really beautiful coral beauty angelfish which we named Steve-O(we had just rented Jackass 2) and let the fishes have a few days. After that we purchased 2 blue damselfish which one is now if fishy heaven. Then about a week after that we got a black spiny sea urchin, a green bubble tip anemone which had a baby clarkii clownfish which we bestowed the name Chino(GO DEFTONES). We also got a coral banded shrimp name Jock(yes from Nemo). We also got a really cool chocalate chip starfish. Currently all of these are still alive.
We still purchased some more snails and crabs which included really cool anemone crabs, a blue starfish(which has perished today), Eric's dream fish a psychadelic mandarin dragonet named Salvador(after the artist), and an algae goby. To finish it off the last purchase that week made were 2 scarlet hermit crabs and 5 medium red crabs. On January 7th, we actually made a trip up to my hometown of Philadelphia and our last purchase was 2 black and white damselfish, another clarkii clownfish which our Chino is in love with, 3 emerald crabs, and a royal gramma(which has currently disappeared, we'll keep you posted should he return from the Bermuda triangle). =O)
To this date the only problem we had was a ph spike up to 8.8 which we quickly brought down with ph down and we thought our anemone was dying when in fact Betty(the anemone) was taking a poop. Hey we're first time parents and we weren't the only ones upset Chino was too. =) So that is our fish tank up to date which we love to sit and watch. We'd love to hear from everyone with what to look out for and your adventures in live rock saltwater tank raising.
THANKS FROM REHOBOTH BEACH, CASEY & ERIC!
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