New to Marines- Please listen!!!!!!!!!!

anyone here, i am here and in jhb, you can pm or email me
but there are alot of resources here on the forum
 
sean_koekemoer said:
Thanks Guys, but this is something that takes me by the throat lately. I got the inevitable phonecall last night again, someone bought a nennie and it is dying, suppose being killed by Ammonia... Very sad, and this is not the first time
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Mr Koekemoer, excellent thread man :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:... couldn't have said it better ... maybe the Durban guys get together and speak the LFS's in their areas ...

i am going to do the same on this end ...

also, you have to keep a nennie in a good tank with 1 or preferably 2 of their hosts ... i have heard of people complaining cos the nennie keeps eating their fish ...
 
Robbie said:
Hi there, to anyone who might be able to help me: Like I said in my introduction, I’m a newbie to marine life, I do however have a very brackish aquarium with a few puffer, mono angels and archers in it. The hydrometer reading is about 1.025, will a clown fish be able to survive in that?
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hey Robbie,

not sure if u got ur answer yet, can u post the rest of ur parameters ?
 
thanx!!! hopefully you've saved some anenomes from a slow and horrible death!
keep coming with the good advice to us dumb noobs....
 
I asked my friend,KSreefster, if he was ever planning on getting a anemone. He said that he can't because a tank has to be atleast a year old. So my question is should his tank be a year old or 9 months?
 
Plecomaster said:
I asked my friend,KSreefster, if he was ever planning on getting a anemone. He said that he can't because a tank has to be atleast a year old. So my question is should his tank be a year old or 9 months?
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the truth, and i will get shot down for this is...

there is no age, the anemone doesnt know the age, blah blah
but the guideline is given for this reason...STABILITY, once you have stability in your tank, eg no major param swings, salinity swings etc then the tank is ready....
2 reasons why: 1. you dont want this gelatinous ball dying and fouling the water. 2. you dont want it to "walk" all over the tank and land up in a flow pump.

so hopefully after 9 months or so, you have worked out all the kinks in your system.
 
dallasg said:
the truth, and i will get shot down for this is...

there is no age, the anemone doesnt know the age, blah blah
but the guideline is given for this reason...STABILITY, once you have stability in your tank, eg no major param swings, salinity swings etc then the tank is ready....
2 reasons why: 1. you dont want this gelatinous ball dying and fouling the water. 2. you dont want it to "walk" all over the tank and land up in a flow pump.

so hopefully after 9 months or so, you have worked out all the kinks in your system.
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Yup like @dallasg said, also it give the keeper of the anemone enough time to gain knowledge on reefing as to how best care for the anemone. Most newbies wants an anemone and clown ( most - not all) so that would be their first impulsive buy. That spells disaster from the start. You need to know what the signs are when the anemone is not happy and how it would react. Should the anemone die it would poisen all other fishies in the system....so ask yourself...do you know the recoverry method should this happen ....
 
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Thanks for the answers guys. I was just curious after reading this thread, becuase my friend knows his stuff about his fish. It's just that he built a new tank thats why it's not so mature yet.
 
dallasg said:
the truth, and i will get shot down for this is...

there is no age, the anemone doesnt know the age, blah blah
but the guideline is given for this reason...STABILITY, once you have stability in your tank, eg no major param swings, salinity swings etc then the tank is ready....
2 reasons why: 1. you dont want this gelatinous ball dying and fouling the water. 2. you dont want it to "walk" all over the tank and land up in a flow pump.

so hopefully after 9 months or so, you have worked out all the kinks in your system.
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my tanks just hitting the three year mark yet i wont risk a nennie in there at the moment as i am battling nutrient issues and swings in temp. there might not be an 'age' to use, but that 9 month rule of thumb is a very good one. stability is about the major parameters staying even, and the best way for that to occur is to allow a ballanced biological filtration to mature. and that takes around 9 months on average from starting a tank, as a rule of thumb.
 
jacquesb said:
I think that one HUGE problem (in addition to the animated movie), is the "fresh water" mentality.
Starting a fresh water tank - what do people do?
Buy a tank, live stock and EVERYTHING else on the same day. They go home, fill the tank with fresh tap water, drop in a few drops of "water conditioner", and let their "fishies" drift in the bags, for 10 minutes.
10 minutes past, and there you go - fish tank completely set up...

Now - people try and do this with marine tanks........
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My friend learnt the hard way that you can't do this for tropical tanks either...
Goldfish are fine, but other fish can be really sensitive, she lost a tire track eel, khuli loaches, a silver dollar, a green phantom Pleco and many chichlids that day.

NEVER just put fish in ANY tank, saltwater or freshwater...

Cycle the tank first, always, no matter what.
 
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