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This was a post I put together for my local fish club. Thought it was worth a blog post. If you guys know of a few more articles that should be mentioned, post them in the comments below!

Hey guys,

I wanted to put together this "New to Saltwater" topic so that we could link people interested in starting a tank to this single topic with tons of information. I'm going to start it off with several statements and articles.

The best place to begin is ...

I remodeled a website (http://www.thecoralshop.com) and the guy is paying me in corals. So... here's the list! If anyone wants any stuff from him the shipping is already paid for and pickup would be in Longview TX.

I'm going to wait until things heal from fragging, so just a few weeks and they're headed my way!
Derasa Clam ~3.5in


Ultra Blue Maxima Clam
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Okay, I'm wanting to grow a fairly small amount of pods to supplement the frozen feedings for my Mandarin (it is perhaps best to think of the frozen food as the supplement). From what I've read they should do fine sitting in a window seal, loaded up with phyto each day with a small ball of chaeto in the water with them. It would experience pretty heavy temp changes in the window, but I would cap it to keep the evaporation down. Would do a small water change just like a typical change and feed ...

Here's the new fish... my Mandarin Goby. Before anyone gets upset that a mandarin is in a 29g let me say this. He is eating frozen. He actually seems to completely ignore my live pods, he's likely tank raised. He stayed at the store he was at for over a month. During that time he ate only frozen foods and he is still fat. Before I picked him up I worked out with a bud of mine who has a 220 that if he starts getting skinny he is getting a new mandarin! lol.
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I started this tank in January of this year. My live rock was purchased from a friend who lives 5 minutes up the road... the rock was only out of the tank long enough to be moved to a bucket at his house, and then into the tank at mine. I even started my tank with his water... so no acclimating or anything. Worked very well. The only "cycling" I went through would be the same as if you cleaned your tank really really well and stirred up all of your sand and such. There was a ...