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Well!!! That’s quite a rap sheet! Hahaha. Are you sure you don’t want to add any more reef keeping Faux pas? Hahaha. Now that you’ve done everything you could possibly do the incorrect way I’m excited to see what you can do while avoiding those!!!! Stay patient, and keep up with your water changes(this time let’s try some rodi and a quality salt?;Hilarious) welcome back to the addiction! And welcome to R2R!!!
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hi welcome to the reef going to love it here!!
lots of fun/info/fun/help/fun....
 
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Fresh salt water is key to keeping nutrients in line. Ditch the ocean water and mix your own. It will keep it cleaner and free of unwanted hitchhikers. Once your mixing your own water your going to have more stable parameters and a better sense of which path to take if you run into more hair algae or other issues.
 
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skinnywater66 said:
Hi there, this is just an informal welcome to all reefers who care to help a noob on his way. A little background is in order i guess so here goes. I am a professional sports photographer living in southwest florida and started a tank about 3 years ago. Anything you could do wrong I did. I live in Port Charlotte, Florida on a saltwater canal and got the grand idea of starting a reef tank. I found a 10 gallon tank and took some rip rap rock out of my canal and started a tank. Went to the beach and gathered up some sand and water and thought I was well on my way to a successful tank. You have no idea the problems I had encountered but even as bad as everything went I learned alot. I battled some of the worst green hair algea you have ever seen and turned around a tank destined for complete failure into something that even supported life. In two years I kept some low light corals and a pair of clownfish, 3 anthias, and a copperband butterfly fish. How I don't really know. I would go to the beach and get water once a month, feed so heavily that the smallest bristle worm in my tank was around 10 inches long but yet everything continued to grow. I have battled green hair algea so thick that I could fill a 5 gallon bucket every week for about 6 months and when I finally won that battle things looked great. I kept everything alive for about 3 years but never had any luck with corals so i Just let my tank go all natural. It's crazy but thats when everything flourished. I litterly had rip rap from my backyard, water from right off shore the beach and just a heater to keep the water at a constant temp. No skimmer, no anything but a powerhead and a prayer and things were growing like crazy. I did a 25 per cent water chance with beach water about every two months and things kept improving. I got so lazy in this tank that I quit checking anything but yet it flourished.. The only thing that killed this tank was my laziness and complete lack of doing anything. Things were going so well that I just stopped checking but when the bottom fell out it feel out hard. So here I am after a 3 year break trying to do it right this time. I have a 65 gallon rimless deep blue aquarium, a homemade 40 gallon sump and am going with Tampa Bay saltwater live rock to start this build. Any help would be greatly appreciated and welcomed. Thanks
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Hello,
I am just a bit further north from you. I am curious what you are referring to as Tampa Bay saltwater live rock?
 
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