My little unimportant theory about EF...

[RottenWillow]

who are some of the classic members who are no longer here who made this place as you would say, to live

Nathan, Poyeboy, HS/NoPapiNo, GL, Beastboy, Seashell, NatureBoy, The Project. Not an exhaustive list, just a few who immediately came to mind.

 

[Lestat]

I can tell you a bit from what I remember how my husband did the salt water tank.

I think acrylic is better

Reef is beautifull, but takes a lot of work and knowing what corals go together. If you put fish in, you have to know that the fish will grow regardless of how big the tank is - opposite of fresh water fish where they grow acording to the size of the tank.

We used that purple light.

the schedule of Feeding the fish is up to you. Water changes are not as often as with fresh water. 1/3 of the water replaced is enough. Make sure you add salt after that.

Live rock is the best option. It has the nececary bacteria for the water.

All the test kits, filters etc - you can ask at the store. If you are getting a tank bigger than 55 gallon, make sure you get a wet system (I think thats the name - that huge pump under the tank)

thanks for the reply.

I need more specifics though. Purple light tells me nothing, were the power compact flouresants? Metal Halide? etc.

I am going with only 1-2 fish, maybe up to 4, but they will all be 3in or less, smaller when I first get them.

A 1/3 water change is a lot! I will do 10% every week or 20% every two weeks.

I am familiar with a lot of the corals that I will want to get, unfortunately they all have their own feeding nuances, some you just put nutrients in the water, others you have to target feed.

 

[RottenWillow]

Puh-lease...


But NOTHING will ever come close to EF Chat in its hey day... back in the beginning before most of the peeps that are up in this bitch even knew about this bitch.

Oh you just reminded me of MuscleBrains. And that cat...was it HS PennyPacker?

 

[Lestat]

OMG, it's, like, Elite Fitness is a dynamic, ever-changing message board! OMGOMGOMG....

And it's the freshmen who bitch about it the most...

wow, I see you just graduated from Perkele's new course: How to go from a well liked member to a sarcastic and all around asshole mod who falls right in line behind "da man."

 

[samoth]

wow, I see you just graduated from Perkele's new course: How to go from a well liked member to a sarcastic and all around asshole mod who falls right in line behind "da man."

You've obviously been missing out on the parallel whining on the anabolic forum.

 

[Lestat]

You've obviously been missing out on the parallel whining on the anabolic forum.

nah i get it. I've seen this type of whining, or "what happened to the good old days" many times now. its the normal eb and flow of the board, the cycles. It was huge when Kronk, citruscide, sofageorge, et al. left. This is even bigger in my opinion, EF pushed the anafit stuff so hard, made their sales people and product developers into elite mods, basically established them as go to people on the boards for everything, now that the business side of it has gone bad the people have to suffer, losing the sponsor and products is no big deal, but the people with sound advice are hard to come by.

For me, when the karma changes went into effect, it all came crashing down. Before that I was on here everyday religiously. Karma gave me a reason to come everyday as silly as it sounds. It caused me to intereact with more people more regularly. I was excited about the karma bookie forum, the karma games like poker, the karma store was awesome. now karma is a closed system, they tried to tie it back to real world value, and it sucked the life right out of it.

 

[Spartacus]

karma whoring needed to be fixed
not entirely done away with
hell I have to pay a tax to give it away

 

[foreigngirl]

thanks for the reply.

I need more specifics though. Purple light tells me nothing, were the power compact flouresants? Metal Halide? etc.

I am going with only 1-2 fish, maybe up to 4, but they will all be 3in or less, smaller when I first get them.

A 1/3 water change is a lot! I will do 10% every week or 20% every two weeks.

I am familiar with a lot of the corals that I will want to get, unfortunately they all have their own feeding nuances, some you just put nutrients in the water, others you have to target feed.

What specifications? They will tell you everything at the store, for sure.

you dont need water changes every week. We did it once in few months. Once the water is set up right, thats it. Make sure the first fish are hardy ones like the damsels so they can create with the live rock all the bacteria needed before you put really expensive fish and have them die.

Yeah, it was one of those more expensive purpulish-black lights. Most likely flourescant.

Oh, if you mix corals and fish - the fish might eat them.

How big of a tank you gettin? What kind of fish? I like the lion fish and the leopard shark (too bad its illegal now_

 

[needtogetaas]

wow, I see you just graduated from Perkele's new course: How to go from a well liked member to a sarcastic and all around asshole mod who falls right in line behind "da man."

na samoth is much cooler now.I like him.

 

[wootoom]

na samoth is much cooler now.I like him.

ya suckin the mods dick again