dansyr
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone! I've really enjoyed reef2reef over the years and am so happy to have finally joined so I can participate in this wonderful community. Thank you all for the really inspiring and detailed knowledge you share. It's been about 7 years since I've had any kind of reef tank, but that's been fixed recently!
My story - I kept SW aquariums as a kid, but that was while living in the tropics so easy mode :) Then in undergrad (definitely not in the tropics), I worked in my university's marine lab which was SO much fun. Got to help build and maintain setups of all shapes and sizes and temperatures, I think about 750 gallons total. Then grad school happened, which was fun and all but busy life + low finances + tiny apartments made anything saltwater impractical. Those were the freshwater planted tank days.... BUT! Turns out life is a lot less constrained after grad school, and while I'm still stuck in apartments for the foreseeable future, I finally have the bandwidth to maintain a little piece of ocean. Not going super crazy, currently planning around mostly softies & LPS with some easier SPS.
My request for you - I'm particularly interested in finding corals aquacultured from the Marshall Islands. Luckily ORA's MIMF helps a lot here, and I got an AWESOME Plerogyra from them via Cherry Corals, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding the less brand-name, "popular" corals like the unnamed Zoas and Sarcos. Seems like while I was out the required number of adjectives in a trade name exploded (please excuse my old man rant). So, if you have any leads on frags with known RMI origins, please give me a shout!
My story - I kept SW aquariums as a kid, but that was while living in the tropics so easy mode :) Then in undergrad (definitely not in the tropics), I worked in my university's marine lab which was SO much fun. Got to help build and maintain setups of all shapes and sizes and temperatures, I think about 750 gallons total. Then grad school happened, which was fun and all but busy life + low finances + tiny apartments made anything saltwater impractical. Those were the freshwater planted tank days.... BUT! Turns out life is a lot less constrained after grad school, and while I'm still stuck in apartments for the foreseeable future, I finally have the bandwidth to maintain a little piece of ocean. Not going super crazy, currently planning around mostly softies & LPS with some easier SPS.
My request for you - I'm particularly interested in finding corals aquacultured from the Marshall Islands. Luckily ORA's MIMF helps a lot here, and I got an AWESOME Plerogyra from them via Cherry Corals, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding the less brand-name, "popular" corals like the unnamed Zoas and Sarcos. Seems like while I was out the required number of adjectives in a trade name exploded (please excuse my old man rant). So, if you have any leads on frags with known RMI origins, please give me a shout!
