12-16-2008, 07:30 PM
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Smod/Admin
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Waldo, Arkansas
Posts: 2,713
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Calling all Newbies
Welcome to our great site. We hope that you will become an active part of our fishy group. We are encouraging everyone to copy the Aquarank/Webfish logo to their own signature showing your support and making it easy for everyone to vote regularly for our site. We appreciate you sharing this wonderful hobby with us and it is our goal to get to know you better as well. Feel free to swim around and get to know some of the wonderful people we have here on a daily basis.
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Discus, Angel, Rummy Nose
Nano
2 Percula Clowns, 1 Chromis
Last edited by Judge; 12-22-2008 at 01:38 PM.
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12-22-2008, 01:29 PM
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Betta
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Alabama
Posts: 73
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Re: Calling all Newbies
I am not a newb but I just wanted to drop in and say hi. And like our good friend judge said: Welcome to our wonderful, helpful, and downright fun website!
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10-15-2009, 11:10 PM
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Rainbow
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Menomonee Falls Wisconsin
Posts: 509
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Re: Calling all Newbies
Hey everybody....I've been M.I.A. for a bit,figured I'd stop by and say whats up. 
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 180 Gallon Reef
350+ Lbs live rock, 250+ Lbs live Sand, Colt Corals, Xenia Corals, Green Frogspawn, Assorted Mushrooms, Zooanthid Colony, Candy Button Coral, Birds Nest Coral, Green Star Polyp Colony, (3) Percula Clownfish, Dusky Jawfish , Green Manderin Dragonet, Red Sea Sailfin Tang, Purple Tang, Spotted Cardinal Fish (pajama fish)... Bi-Color Dotty back, Arrow Crabs, Green Brittle Star (huge) and Many Various snails and Hermit crabs.
: Photo Bucket link:
http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii125/BB6Prelude/
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10-16-2009, 07:01 PM
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Smod/Admin
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Waldo, Arkansas
Posts: 2,713
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Re: Calling all Newbies
Hey there CBR good to hear from you. Hang around and bring us up to speed on your tanks.... 
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200 Amazon
Discus, Angel, Rummy Nose
Nano
2 Percula Clowns, 1 Chromis
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11-23-2009, 11:22 AM
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Fry
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Maryland
Posts: 1
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Re: Calling all Newbies
Hello fellow hobbyists, My name is Jeremy. Been looking around for a good forum site and this one seems to be very good. Thought I would introduce myself. I work as an Aquatic Biologist in Maryland. I've kept fish tanks of all types since I was old enough to be responsible for their maintenance. I currently have a 75 and a 5 gallon Saltwater tank and am in the process of re-starting a 30 gallon freshwater. My wife and I just recently had our first child, so in order to make room I took down a couple of my tanks. I hate having empty tanks in the shed, so I am re-starting the 30 gallon. Empty tanks are such a waste of opportunities!!!
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11-23-2009, 07:10 PM
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Smod/Admin
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Waldo, Arkansas
Posts: 2,713
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Re: Calling all Newbies
Hey JC from MD we are glad you have joined our friendly group....I know exactly what you mean...my 55 sat empty for about 4 months before I just had to fill it with something...my new Angel specific tank!
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200 Amazon
Discus, Angel, Rummy Nose
Nano
2 Percula Clowns, 1 Chromis
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04-12-2010, 03:12 PM
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Fry
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Escondido, CA
Posts: 12
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Re: Calling all Newbies
Hi everyone. I just registered today. I've kept fish a long time, but haven't really been into the message boards up until now. I like small aquaria w/more fish than the "rules of thumb" suggest, live plants, and TONS of water changes (I'm fanatical about that stuff...it's actually bordering on OCD...we're talking 20% every other day! lol). My newest adventure is a primarily live-bearer 15 g which is only about half-full, by my standards (it only fully finished cycling 2 weeks ago, after all):
4 fancy guppies (& 9 1-week-old fry), eventually to be 9 total adults (4:5)
2 Showa koi swordtails, goal to be 4 total swords (1:3)
3 corydoras aeneus, planning to settle @ 5
The aquarium above is mainly for fun. I'm not trying to do any "serious" breeding, though I did want to allow some offspring to come around from time to time. It keeps my 3 kids happy. I let them each pick out some plastic "cheesy" plants, hermit-crab shells, and decorations, and then I put some anacharis in there (for now). A nice little piece of driftwood rounds out the aesthetics of the tank. It's a bit gaudy, but the aquarium is distinctly "us", which is what I wanted in the first place with it. The kids really enjoy helping me with the maintenance, feeding, etc. and they are learning a lot. They don't like having to wait a week or more to get new fish, though! Who does? lol
Recent excitement for me was the installation of R/O @ my house, and saving one of the corys after he lodged himself deep inside an empty hermit-crab shell (just decoration, we don't have any hermits in the aquarium). I had to use tweezers to rescue the cory, but he survived with a slightly damaged caudal fin to show for the experience. Aside from that, my fish are happy and active...a very positive experience w/this one thus far.
I also keep a 1-gallon "hospital", which will occasionally house a fancy betta.
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04-12-2010, 06:13 PM
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Smod/Admin
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Waldo, Arkansas
Posts: 2,713
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Re: Calling all Newbies
Welcome Mr Sparkle to FTF we are very glad you have joined our friendly group.
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200 Amazon
Discus, Angel, Rummy Nose
Nano
2 Percula Clowns, 1 Chromis
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04-13-2010, 02:28 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Jose, California
Posts: 846
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Re: Calling all Newbies
"Mister sparkle!!" Haha love the name! Welcome to FTF!
Wow 20% water changes every other day! Thats amazing! I wish I had the time/willpower to do that. Sounds like paradise for any fish!
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04-13-2010, 07:50 AM
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Smod/Admin
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 3,294
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Re: Calling all Newbies
I have not had enough coffee this morning to remember the name of a member, a few years back, who was experimenting with continuous water flow (change) in big tanks. 
I think 50% once a week in all my tanks is enough for me 
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