Hoosier
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- Joined
- Dec 20, 2020
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- Location
- Columbia
- What state or country do you live in
- South Carolina
Hi everyone --
I'm relatively new to reefing -- I've had a biocube29 for almost two years now. I think of it as my thousand-dollar training course in reefing. And I'm ready to go bigger, so I've just ordered an SCA 150. Reading R2R has been very helpful as I made that decision. Like many people here, I had freshwater tanks as a kid. But probably unlike most people here, I went on to get a Ph.D. in aquatic ecology. For the past 25 years I've been using freshwater invertebrates to study the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. This has been a boon and a curse as I started in on reefing. My biocube sits in my lab at school, where I have lots of useful toys and RO/DI on tap. There's even a spigot in the basement with NSW, which I thought would simplify things but turned out to be a trap. I'm learning that my instincts as a freshwater biologist are not always helpful. Or maybe it's just my lifelong irritation with chemistry.
Anyway ... I'm glad to be finally plunging ahead with something I've wanted to to since the 1980s.
--Hoosier
(Including a pic of the Biocube29 just for kicks.)
I'm relatively new to reefing -- I've had a biocube29 for almost two years now. I think of it as my thousand-dollar training course in reefing. And I'm ready to go bigger, so I've just ordered an SCA 150. Reading R2R has been very helpful as I made that decision. Like many people here, I had freshwater tanks as a kid. But probably unlike most people here, I went on to get a Ph.D. in aquatic ecology. For the past 25 years I've been using freshwater invertebrates to study the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. This has been a boon and a curse as I started in on reefing. My biocube sits in my lab at school, where I have lots of useful toys and RO/DI on tap. There's even a spigot in the basement with NSW, which I thought would simplify things but turned out to be a trap. I'm learning that my instincts as a freshwater biologist are not always helpful. Or maybe it's just my lifelong irritation with chemistry.
Anyway ... I'm glad to be finally plunging ahead with something I've wanted to to since the 1980s.
--Hoosier
(Including a pic of the Biocube29 just for kicks.)
