Fish hobby!

Anyone else smoke a lot of weed, trip and have a SW hobby? nothings quite as amusing as exotic saltwater fish and various crustations while losing your mind..
Never met another pothead with a set-up. figured I'd ask! list your gear! I'll start...


Coralife t5 fixtures
coralife 250 uv sterilizer
coralife 250 proteinskimmer
10gallon bioball tank
2 50w heaters
countless pumps/jet-streamers
125 maintank
75 gallon sump/live sand tank
20 gallon crustations tank
1000lbs+ of liverock, barnacles, and crushed coral
1 valentini puffer
1 humahuma trigger
1 dogface puffer
1 blue spot puffer
2 yellowtail damsels
1 lemon damsel
1 blue devil damsel
1 pecula clownfish
2 algae blennys
manderin gobyfish
50+ snails, 10+ hermit crabs, 10+ fiddler crabs, one atlantic sea cucumber and a few green crabs

I'll post up some pics if theres any one on here into the sport! packing my AMG right now with trainwreck! peace out!

Wow!!
Like a whole eco system.

Maybe I will try that one day.

Whoa! Must see some pics! Let me see if I can find mine. Nothing in comparison.

Here we go.



We have 3 red-fin sharks, 2 green barbs, 2 tiger barbs, 1 chinese algae eater, 2 mollies (with a ton of babies, LoL), snails (hitch-hiked in on our live plants), and... That's it. We used to have a few crabs, but they died off. We're still really new to this hobby, as you can see. We were wanting to get a dwarf-puffer or two to help with the snail population, but we aren't sure if we'd be able to take care of them yet.

Sorry for the size. I'll take a pic as it looks now once I get back from the store and update.

I put a 5 gallon bucket of fresh water in my system every 4-8 days and empty my protein skimmer drain bucket once a month. turn on/off lights, feed, and enjoy!

Do what many people do. For a small set up, you dont need anything fancy.
Get a 10 gallon tank for $10.99 at walmart. Buy a $19.99 bag of live sand. Buy a 10 lb chunk of liverock for $75.00. over powering never hurts a tank. the key is circulation. never allow any part of the water to not circulate. for a 10 gallon SW tank you want a filter rated for atleast 20 gallons. I'd recommend a 30-60($30) unless you have small creatures that could get sucked up. Take out the filter media (you dont need it for SW) and mix the salt. Salt is sold in bags of 5lb, 10lb, 25lb,50lb,and 75lb buckets. the 5lb bag is usually $9.99 and will be way more than enough for a 10 gallon tank. A nice High Output fixture will run you $75 for a 10gallon. my 125gallon light was $488.00
You are set. You have an eco system in your house. My snails keep my glass clean! easier than FW!

nice set up! mollies are baby making machines! Wanting a puffer is what initially intrigued myself! the peapuffers are definitely cool but... how adorable is this?

Let me see if I can get a few pics with my evo

Nice trigger fish?

And that is one cool puffer.....almost looks like a cross between a puffer and a cowfish kinda.

humahuma and voyager 3 jet!

Here's our tank as it is now. Once again, sorry for the size.



Stupid fish never sit still long enough to take a good picture. LoL

Loving your fish 1022!

Nice tank! I wish I could have plants. Even the fake plants add nice effect and color. My puffers destroy everything!! Cant even keep corals with triggers/puffers. too curious!

Thanks!

Very interesting about the puffers. That's good to know. I really like the simple look as well.

We kind of wanted to do a glow tank. We have quite a few photo-luminescent rocks that we wanted to incorporate, but we figured the UV lights would be harmful to the fish.

yes. things that seem like pretty sound ideas are usually pretty disastrous. especially with saltwater. I made the mistake of having brass nozels for the sump return....learned a $600 not to mention time lesson, in addition to losing my 5 year old hermit crab and a few gobies. Always have to think 'could this absorb anything?' and if the answer is yes, it better have came from a pond if its in a FW or it better have came from the the beach or the ocean if its SW. glass/lexan and many plastics are okay. Even a freshwater rock in a saltwater tank can kill the less hardy fish from iron or copper levels. Copper is the deadly assasin in most SW massacres. Brass is made up of mostly copper, although routinely used in the marine industry (boats,cleats,through-hull fittings.) Lesson learned : stick to plastics.