New guy just saying hello

Sooner Reefer · Jul 30, 2008

Hello everyone. New here but have been in this wonderful hobby 3 years. Started out with a 125g FOWLR and now using a 24g aquapod. Member of saltwaterfish.com and sharkraycentral.com . My 24g is coming along slow since I don't have a lot of money at the moment to fill it up with nice corals. Current stocklist is a cleaner shrimp, pulsing xenia, and some small groups of zoas. I got a powerhead in there and have the stock pump. Using cheato to take care of nitrates and not feeding a lot to prevent phosphates and ammonia. I got 150w Sunpod HQI 14K Metal Hallides. Here are some pics of the tank. Just checking in and I'm glad I found this site. Paintballer768 recommended me.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 30, 2008

NICE ROCK WORK man and.........

WELCOME TO R2R

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Nate82 · Jul 30, 2008

welcome and i love how much rock you packed in wish the pic was clearer though

revhtree · Jul 30, 2008

Welcome to R2R MIKE!! Great to have you here.

I really like the rock wall look in your tank!

Sooner Reefer · Jul 30, 2008

Thanks for the nice welcome. Unfortunatly I don't got the money quite yet to fill the cool rock wall with corals. Here is another clearer pic before I added anything to the tank:

paintballer768 · Jul 30, 2008

Mike, whered your xenia go??

Sooner Reefer · Jul 30, 2008

paintballer768 said:
Mike, whered your xenia go??

This is a pic before anything was in there.

paintballer768 · Jul 30, 2008

Mkay. Didnt know if it died already

oceanparadise1 · Jul 31, 2008

hey if u want to just pay shipping ill send u some nice starter corals for free

ahayes13 · Jul 31, 2008

welcome to r2r! love the rock work also

Nate82 · Jul 31, 2008

this is a great place to get cheap coral man

Sooner Reefer · Jul 31, 2008

oceanparadise1 said:
hey if u want to just pay shipping ill send u some nice starter corals for free

Wow, thank you so much. I'll definetly let you know. First I need to figure out if I got paypal, I think I do but I haven't used it for a couple years.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 31, 2008

u can always just send a money order, it wont be nothing special just some starter stuff to get ya something to look at

Sooner Reefer · Jul 31, 2008

oceanparadise1 said:
u can always just send a money order, it wont be nothing special just some starter stuff to get ya something to look at

Hey I'd be happy with anything. What do you mean by money order?

oceanparadise1 · Jul 31, 2008

u go to the gas station and get a western union check and send that its insured and everything! thats what i use i dont use pay pal any more not after i was scammed for 500 bucks

Sooner Reefer · Jul 31, 2008

oceanparadise1 said:
u go to the gas station and get a western union check and send that its insured and everything! thats what i use i dont use pay pal any more not after i was scammed for 500 bucks

Ok hopefuly this weekend I'll get some cash. I'll let you know when I get the money. Thank you so much again.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 31, 2008

np bro the offer is always open so no rush

Sooner Reefer · Jul 31, 2008

I took some more pics today. As you can see from the pics I need a clean up crew to stir up the sandbed. I'm hoping to sell some old equipment and my old 125g this weekend and if that goes then I'll be able to buy a clean up crew and some other good stuff I need for the 24g. Some of the pics have a blue tint to it, it's the camera settings I changed because it was hard for me to get good pics of the corals with my bright MH's.

Cleaner shrimp:

Anotehr pic of the cleaner shrimp:

Pulsing Xenia that split, I split the rock and hopefuly the second stalk will grow as big as the first one soon.

Zoanthid, I don't know a name, never asked for ID:

Another pic of the zoa: