New to saltwater

[SDM]

I have always liked saltwater tanks, I remember as a kid growing up our neighbor down the road had one. I could sit and watch the tank for hours. My friends dad gave me advice don't start a saltwater tank until your settled in life.

Fast forward 40 years and I finally got my first SWT 240 gal. Within that 40 years I moved from USA to the Philippines, and have been here the last 9 years. I finally feel confident enough to keep, and maintain the tank. I did a little research and found someone locally that does SWT. He is a shipper of SW fish, he does corals for local clients only.

I have had the tank for almost 1 year now and really getting to the point of understanding what I am doing, I am no expert, and sure I will have many questions.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Welcome to reef2reef! Any questions are welcome!

 

[Oscaror]

I have always liked saltwater tanks, I remember as a kid growing up our neighbor down the road had one. I could sit and watch the tank for hours. My friends dad gave me advice don't start a saltwater tank until your settled in life.

Fast forward 40 years and I finally got my first SWT 240 gal. Within that 40 years I moved from USA to the Philippines, and have been here the last 9 years. I finally feel confident enough to keep, and maintain the tank. I did a little research and found someone locally that does SWT. He is a shipper of SW fish, he does corals for local clients only.

I have had the tank for almost 1 year now and really getting to the point of understanding what I am doing, I am no expert, and sure I will have many questions.

#Welcome aboard!

 

[Raege]

Welcome to the salt side and R2R. Would love to see some pics of your tank

 

[Ruben's Reef]

!!! Welcome to R2R !!! Happy reefing !!! Don't forget to post some pictures. We love pictures.

 

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[reef lover]

Welcome to r2r!!

 

[Chrisfish]

Welcome to R2R, we’d love to see some pictures

 

[Super Fly]

240 for a 1st tank is awesome!... so jelly

 

[Billldg]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[zoso]

Welcome to the greatest source of information and awesome help this side of the Universe

 

[cracker]

Welcome SDM!

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Captain Quint]

Glad you are with us SDM! I noticed you've been a member for 2 years. Any pics fo us to *drool* over our friend?

 

[SDM]

Thanks for the welcome. Here are a few pics, the tank has been up for about 1 year. During this year it has died on me 2 times. I work an odd schedule i'm in country 25 days and gone 31 days (supposed to be 28/28). So I was trusting the guy that set up the tank to take care of it for me. After the 2 disappointing deaths of the tank I decided my wife and I will be the ones to take care of it.

I know its a big discussion with pros and cons for both, but he told me we never need to change the water in the tank. I have since learnt how to test it with the API test kit, and was shocked at what I found. TBH I am too embarrassed to post the results. I did my first water change today, 25 gallons. I will do another in a few days as 25 gallons isn't that much in my tank size.

I bought an RO system to save me having to use 5 gallon jugs at a time. It isn't an RO/DI system, I plan on locating the DI part of the system and will add it to what I already have. I am waiting the tester to come out and test the purity of my water, however what it puts out has got to be better than what's in the tank now. Sorry for the quality of the pics I just D/L them from my FB account page. Currently bringing the tank back to life.

My lighting isn't the best, I plan on buying better lighting when the budget will allow. Currently using 2 ZALMAN black boxes. I have 2 more being delivered this Friday. Since I am living in Philippines I can get fish and coral really easy, however finding the rest of what's needed is a little harder.

EDIT - Please if you see something wrong within my tank let me know.

This is my newest one. Toadstool.

These guys are great hiders, yet they know when it's time to eat. Rarely get to see them.

 

[Captain Quint]

Looks amazing! and thanks for sharing. My assumption is the nitrates were a bit high with 2 water changes being close together. Don't sweat it too much.

I knew an LFS owner who didn't use DI resign. One can add a bit of prime which would help detoxify ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates until a DI is found and added. I don't know if chloramines are added to the water in the P.I. or not.

Again thank you for joining us and I really appreciate the morning tank/critter *drool* of the morning.