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12-10-2004, 10:16 PM
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Needs a BIGGER tank!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Newcastle, Australia
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Hi everyone. Been looking at your site now for a while at work ( not doin much work ) but the stupid filter on our email wouldnt let me sign up. So now that i have a home computer its all go.I'm fairly new to keeping marine fish and found the site offered some very valuable info and ideas to help.
I'm in the middle of moving my 20 gal into a new 60gal and hope to have some pics soon (will post when i do).
Hope to build a good relationship with some of you and look forward to the advice i get from the endless questions i will probably post.
Thanks guys.
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12-10-2004, 10:30 PM
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OIFVet
Join Date: Apr 2004
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welcome to trt
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12-10-2004, 10:41 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Newfoundland
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You've found a great spot!
lots of friendly people with great advice!
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12-10-2004, 10:47 PM
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Needs a BIGGER tank!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Newcastle, Australia
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The LFS has a small 3" high orbic batfish. Will the 60g be to cramped for him?
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12-10-2004, 11:19 PM
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TCMAS Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: River Falls, WI
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Long term it will be cramped for him. Unless you have immediate upgrade plans in the future, i would not do it.
Also... Welcome to the board!
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12-10-2004, 11:21 PM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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welcome from one new castle to another,LOL
for a bat fish yes that is way too small. i have one he is about 8-9 inches now and 100 times too big for my tank. i am saving for a 150 very soon for him.
they grow very fast. there seems to be ahit and miss with them eating, i have never had trouble with any of the bats i have had in the last few years.
they will eat pellets, flake, ghost shrimp, nori, and belive it or not mushrooms!!!!!... mine clean a whole rock off of 8 green mushrooms...
they are a beautiful fish but IMO anyting small then 100galon tank would be too small.
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12-10-2004, 11:37 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Watkinsville, GA
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12-11-2004, 07:14 AM
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Good boy
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Marietta, GA, USA
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12-11-2004, 07:21 AM
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Human grounding probe
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Wyoming
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G-day, and welcome. I agree with Tims, a 60 is way too small. But it is the perfect size for a kick butt reef tank.
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12-11-2004, 07:33 AM
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Reefer in training
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ridgewood, NJ
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Welcome to TRT, Do you get much of a change to see your own Reef down under? Ask all the questions you can. You will get great info here. Also, read alot of books, lots of good ones out there.
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12-11-2004, 04:34 PM
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Needs a BIGGER tank!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Newcastle, Australia
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thanks for the welcome guys and the info on the bat. have not yet got to see the great barrier reef. trying to plan a trip next year, should be awsome. guy at the lfs showed me some his photos from up there ( cabbage and leather corals 3 metre wide).
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12-11-2004, 07:44 PM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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WELCOME to TRT!
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12-11-2004, 08:43 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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WELCOME! Please feel free to ask any questions!There is no stupied question.You mite ask a question someone else would like to know to!
As to the bat fish 60gal.will be to small .But that mite be the way to say "Hay I need a biggger tank!" 
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12-11-2004, 10:08 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Valparaiso, IN
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12-12-2004, 10:50 AM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
Join Date: Jan 1999
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Welcome to TRT!
I'm not sure if you could get the book locally but I know you could order it online. Scott Michael's "Marine Fishes: 500+ Essential-To-Know Aquarium Species" is a great ref book when making fish selections.
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