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I recently heard about this club and have been reading some of the forums.... I am new to the hobby (roughly about 1 month) and I am very enthusiastic about my new salt water tank. As of right now, I have a 75g, basic filter and a couple of damsels.

I would like to turn in into a coral tank, but I am not sure what I am able to do right now with the corallite, that I currently have until I buy a T-5 light.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as well as if folks know where I can get some reasonable coral for starters (I figure I will mess up in the beginning) for a reasonable price, please let me know.

:thumbs:Thanks to everyone in advance :thumbs:
 
Start out with baby steps....... Stick with soft corals at first as you read and learn. The lighting you have already will be enough for most sofr corals. Read, read, read!

Welcome to the club!
 
Dakota9;413292 wrote: Start out with baby steps....... Stick with soft corals at first as you read and learn. The lighting you have already will be enough for most sofr corals. Read, read, read!

Welcome to the club!
And don't forget to ask questions :up:
 
welcome to ARC.
being new is tough, i know. im new too.
yes do as much reading as you can stand, then read some more.
 
Welcome and please enjoy this site as much as I have. Great people
 
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome !!!! BTW what is the "meeting"?
 
also may i suggest a book,
the conscientious marine aquarist by robert m fenner.
its a great book for beginners. i got mine from jenn at imagine ocean.
contact her, 770 720 0103. or you can PM her on here.
the book is a little pricey but well worth it. covers everything beginners should know and then some.
 
:welcome:You can get good starter frags from people on this site. Some corals I would suggest are photosethic (sp) gorgonians, colt corals, leather corals, zoas and palys. You can get xenia or kenya tree but these get out of control very easily. I love my gorgonians they'll grow under any light and are very hardy.
 
hackman

where in the world did you get that avitar? your scaring the heck out of my avitar with that thing.
 
Welcome to ARC. Take your time and research everything. When you think you understand it, research a little more. This is a great site for information with a lot of folks who learned the processes through experience. I believe we also have a mentor program...might be worth mentioning.

GL...:up:
 
yes there is a mentor program.
it would be worth bringing up. theres so many cool, knowledgeable people
on here that you could be hooked up with. i wish i knew about this program a long time ago myself. ive learned the hard way. still learning.
this and the book i mentioned above will save you serious time and money, not to mention your sanity.
 
welcome to the club . im new to this club is awsome you will find they always there to help. im new to the club but have some knowledge will help if i can . injoy the hobby sometimes it gets frustrating but it will always be in the end fun.
 
I have a

75G tank
Marineland Multi-Stage C-360 canister filter
Coralife 10,000k Bulb
60 lbs of sand
15 lbs of base rock
15 lbs of live rock
10 hermit crabs
5 damsels

I will probably get rid of the damsels, due to their aggressive state, the fish guy told me it was the best to get to start off my tank.

I would like to start with some small coral, but I am not sure to get and since I will be getting more rock I dont want to murder anything expensive. Are there people in the club who have cheap price coral?
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Charlie, good advice.
To the OP, I'd personally go ahead and put all the live rock you need in now, and get the cycling all out of the way once and for all. 30 pounds (once the base rock becomes "live") isn't really enough for a 75g system. Some say a good rule of thumb is one pound per gallon, but most really flourishing, successful tanks have a good bit more than that.
 
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