New guy in la mirada area

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Hey what's going on reefers! New guy from la mirada. My name is niko and just got a 125 gallon tank with a 40 gallon sump Red Sea Berlin skimmer and a couple of rio 32hf pumps. Started in this hobby a few years ago and then with work had to break down my tank years ago but as of last night I'm attempting another tank! In this tank I'm going to do a FOWLR but only very little rock. I want to try to work around a lion fish and puffer. I did have the stingrays in mind but decided not to. If any one can offer some advice on the fish I was thinking. Also if their is any where or anyone who can help me out with making sure it is setup correctly. I will try to post up pictures of my tank later today for you all. Thanks in advance for all your help!


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thanks everyone for the welcoming onto the forum. is there anyone here that knows of anyone that has the capability to bring water and what not? and im also looking for sand and maybe about 20-40 pounds of rock
 

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if you still need rock, I have 80lbs of dry Florida reef rock....I'm in Fullerton not too far from you...I paid $158 and this is the price I'm asking for it. it's very pouris with lots of holes.
 
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Here is a little update on my FOWLR system. My ammonia is almost gone and my nitrite is dropping quickly and my nitrates have been stuck at 10ppm. Couple days ago I got a piece of rock and a snail was hidden on it and has been roaming around just fine. I'm not planning on adding any fish for a while just to be safe. What do you guys think so far? Eventually going to add a little more rock to make more caves and openings but have to find the right pieces.



 
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i like the aquascaping, how it's got caves and such.

however, being that it's going to be FOWLR, there won't be "new" growth with coral. I think you should use mortar / putty / etc to assemble the rocks so that they take up more height.

right now, there's a lot of negative space above the rocks.
 
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welcome Niko, this guy came into my shop and we chatted for a bit and he is genuine and real down to earth kind of guy what you see is what you get so I want all my scr friends to welcome him and help him out if he has any questions and just cause he is doing fish only doesn't mean he isn't one of us. any one with a aquarium fresh salt reef fish only planted tank is one of us . Hope to see you soon again and maybe some day we will go off-roading thanks again for coming into my NIko! oh and he has a epic beard! lol
 

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Welcome aboard. Speaking from experience, you couldn't find a better place to get advice, suggestions and every once in a while, a hard time! Looking forward to seeing your progress!

Mike in HB
 
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i like the aquascaping, how it's got caves and such.

however, being that it's going to be FOWLR, there won't be "new" growth with coral. I think you should use mortar / putty / etc to assemble the rocks so that they take up more height.

right now, there's a lot of negative space above the rocks.
I'll have to talk my wife into re scaping the rock. I'm not sure what you mean by "new" growth with coral as I'm not putting any in. How do you suggest I should do the mortar/putty with the rocks?

I agree with Jeff, stack higher. I would also make some islands and get yourself some free sand bed space.
I have to let the wife do the scaping part of it as she is picky on how it looks...happy wife happy life, right? Haha

welcome Niko, this guy came into my shop and we chatted for a bit and he is genuine and real down to earth kind of guy what you see is what you get so I want all my scr friends to welcome him and help him out if he has any questions and just cause he is doing fish only doesn't mean he isn't one of us. any one with a aquarium fresh salt reef fish only planted tank is one of us . Hope to see you soon again and maybe some day we will go off-roading thanks again for coming into my NIko! oh and he has a epic beard! lol
Thank you for answering all my questions when I came in to the shop! I hope I didn't bore you with my questions. I will definitely be shopping with you for all my needs for my tank! I will be at The more freedom 250 night race next Saturday night come you should come on out for a bit after work! Haha what epic beard?

Welcome aboard. Speaking from experience, you couldn't find a better place to get advice, suggestions and every once in a while, a hard time! Looking forward to seeing your progress!

Mike in HB
I have been learning a lot from reading everything on here! My wife is thinking I am a mr know it all just from what I read on here! I will definitely post updates when I have some. As for right now the tank is still cycling naturally with out the addition of any shrimp or anything to kick start the cycle. I'm just letting the live sand and live rock do what it needs to do!

I just need to get me a better skimmer to keep up with the fish I want to have in the tank. But can't do that till I sell my poison dart frog vivariums!

Thank you everyone for all the welcoming and the knowledge you guys have posted and what not on here. I am still trying to figure out what my main fish I want to have as my main "eye candy", so I can add others accordingly.
 
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