Aloha Everyone

[BackToTheReef]

Welcome to the dark side (salt side?)!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Welcome to the R2R community and we’re glad you joined us

 

[fishguy242]

hi welcome to the reef going to love it here!!
lots of fun/info/fun/help/fun....

 

[dwair]

Wife and I recently began adding fish to our little family zoo. It started at the beginning of COVID with my discovery of r/PlantedTank and subsequent purchase of a 5g rimless tank. Didn't end up planting it until the summer but after that we ended up "rescuing" (as my wife likes to call it) a betta from a LFS and purchasing a 10g that became it's home. Since then we've acquired two larger tanks used off Facebook. One is a 75g semi aggressive freshwater tank and the other is a 65g that we intend to make into a saltwater tank. Over the last month I've been doing research and we finally got most of the items we need to set the tank up. I'll start a build thread when that day comes. In the meantime, glad to be here and looking forward to diving deeper into this hobby.

Welcome to R2R!

 

[BighohoReef]

Welcome to Reef2Reef! My wife is from Oahu, we're hoping to return one day! We've tried to stock our tank with fish found in Hawaii. Hawaiian Cleaner, Yellow Eye Kole, Valentini puffer and hoping for a fire wrasse somewhere in the future, but my favorite is the Tinker Butterfly... when I win the lotto or save enough raffle gift cards that's going in the tank!

Aloha!

 

[G Santana]

Welcome to R2R

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed.

 

[Sthomp01]

Welcome to Reef2Reef

 

[ScubaFish802]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[MagikarpSalad]

 

[FlexingFishSticks]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[RamblinSquid]

Be careful when using natural Hawaii beach sands. Pahoehoe and a'a can contain high amounts of copper. Of course, coral sands are OK.

We actually got the tank used and it has the sand from the previous owners in it. I think they might've collected from a local beach. Currently leaning towards cleaning it and using it. I'm not sure if there even are black sand beaches on the island I'm on.

Welcome to R2R! I predict that 75 will be salt within the next 12 mo.

Haha maybe but most likely not. There's a lot more resources for freshwater locally than there are saltwater. If it was possible to acquire coral then maybe we'd end up with multiple salt tanks but for now it'll probably just be the one.

 

[Dw79]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[scdigby]

Wife and I recently began adding fish to our little family zoo. It started at the beginning of COVID with my discovery of r/PlantedTank and subsequent purchase of a 5g rimless tank. Didn't end up planting it until the summer but after that we ended up "rescuing" (as my wife likes to call it) a betta from a LFS and purchasing a 10g that became it's home. Since then we've acquired two larger tanks used off Facebook. One is a 75g semi aggressive freshwater tank and the other is a 65g that we intend to make into a saltwater tank. Over the last month I've been doing research and we finally got most of the items we need to set the tank up. I'll start a build thread when that day comes. In the meantime, glad to be here and looking forward to diving deeper into this hobby.

Hello!

 

[Dana Riddle]

We actually got the tank used and it has the sand from the previous owners in it. I think they might've collected from a local beach. Currently leaning towards cleaning it and using it. I'm not sure if there even are black sand beaches on the island I'm on.



Haha maybe but most likely not. There's a lot more resources for freshwater locally than there are saltwater. If it was possible to acquire coral then maybe we'd end up with multiple salt tanks but for now it'll probably just be the one.

It's been a while since I visited Oahu. I seem to recall the beach sands were OK for aquaria. @agrandis.

 

[PTXReef]

Time to “rescue” lots of corals!

Welcome to the R2R community and happy reefing!

 

[susan ingram]

Wife and I recently began adding fish to our little family zoo. It started at the beginning of COVID with my discovery of r/PlantedTank and subsequent purchase of a 5g rimless tank. Didn't end up planting it until the summer but after that we ended up "rescuing" (as my wife likes to call it) a betta from a LFS and purchasing a 10g that became it's home. Since then we've acquired two larger tanks used off Facebook. One is a 75g semi aggressive freshwater tank and the other is a 65g that we intend to make into a saltwater tank. Over the last month I've been doing research and we finally got most of the items we need to set the tank up. I'll start a build thread when that day comes. In the meantime, glad to be here and looking forward to diving deeper into this hobby.

welcome to the reef!!!

 

[mijan]

Welcome to Reef2Reef