1st reef tank, needs to be done cheap (I keep freshwater planted ecosystem aquariums)

[dedragon]

Ya.

On the other hand, he's as old as The Dark Knight movie so...

Lol, he be like, "whats a michael keaton?"

 

[dedragon]

#Keatonisthe bestBATMAN

 

[MaxTremors]

Where is the pure blue light ?

That is taken with a flash. Look at how blue the coral is in the background. Look how blue the water is (the only reason water looks blue is because only the blue light penetrates beyond the first 30’).

 

[James_O]

I am going to do 45lbs of Lr and skimp on other stuff. Priority is live rock, if I did live rock and then a heater and light and mabye a cheap China powerhead, does 300-400 gph work for an 20clong no powerhead (turned down filter) work? that’s all I need

You don’t need that much live rock, you’re just wasting your money.

You only need a couple of pounds of live rock - all the rest can be dry rock, which is a lot cheaper.

 

[Dcal]

That is taken with a flash. Look at how blue the coral is in the background. Look how blue the water is (the only reason water looks blue is because only the blue light penetrates beyond the first 30’).

and probably some color correction

 

[James_O]

What is this thread lol

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

 

[reefinatl]

Ya.

On the other hand, he's as old as The Dark Knight movie so...

well thanks for that kick in the cajones. Apparently I'm old now.

 

[James_O]

well thanks for that kick in the cajones. Apparently I'm old now.

 

[reefinatl]

You don’t need that much live rock, you’re just wasting your money.

You only need a couple of pounds of live rock - all the rest can be dry rock, which is a lot cheaper.

Not that he is going to listen to any of us, but I'd say on a first reef it is easier to go 100% live rock. Dry rock just gets to be a mess before it settles out. 100% live rock you run through the die off and you are ready to rock a week or two later without suffering algae outbreaks and uglies. This is assuming a relatively small tank where dealing with a few potential hitchhikers is easy.

 

[NoahLikesFish]

Just because dry rock is cheap, dosent mean it’s good. I dont get having a nuclear test site biotope but it’s perfectly worth 275$ for all the biodiversity tunicates sponges and coral and inverts you get

 

[BelieveInBlue]

Oh baby this again.

 

[MaxTremors]

The last thing I’m gonna say here is I’m doing small fish and I’m sticking to what people in pms are telling me. I’m not gonna let the people who keep fish and think in the different (incorrect in my pov) way I do get to me

You don’t have a POV! You’ve never kept a reef tank! You have no experience upon which to have a point of view! And this isn’t even a difference of opinion, you are denying the objective science of reefkeeping! There are still a lot of unknowns, theories, and debates to be had, but you are denying and arguing against settled science!

 

[Dcal]

Summary for those who havent read much:

-@The Camaro Show doesn't know anything
-unnamed friend is coral jesus
- hob=powerhead
- biotope = indo fish with red sea fish

 

[NoahLikesFish]

You shouldn’t skimp on LR it is the foundation of a reef ecosystem and exists everywhere in all zones of oceans except palegaic open ocean zone

 

[NoahLikesFish]

By biotope I’m making an environment I dont want to make a biotope in the sense of freshwater

 

[Dcal]

You shouldn’t skimp on LR it is the foundation of a reef ecosystem and exists everywhere in all zones of oceans except palegaic open ocean zone

Theres many other things you have been told with this exact same rhetoric that you've completely ignored

 

[Dcal]

By biotope I’m making an environment I dont want to make a biotope in the sense of freshwater

?

 

[NoahLikesFish]

@funkateer 1 is one of my friends

 

[NoahLikesFish]

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I’m not gonna do fish from 1 collection zone because that’s hard