It was great meeting you too! Thank you for the compliments.
Great meeting you today too! Thank you so much for the compliments! I wish you could of seen it before I started selling things!
Name for the first picture? Made me droolIt’s doing good!
Thank you so much! That just made my day!
I have a very rare coral called "The Hemmdog" that I could give you a chunk of for your next reef ;Smuggrin99% of my coral is sold. Getting to selling fish this week. This sucks. Thinking of maybe getting a waterbox nano peninsula though for the new place at some point.
99% of my coral is sold. Getting to selling fish this week. This sucks. Thinking of maybe getting a waterbox nano peninsula though for the new place at some point.
Chris bro. I just typed in your name in the search to find your build thread to see what you were up to and now I’m just seeing this. You’re an inspiration to all brother. You wouldn’t let me give up this hobby and I’m so sad to see this. Hang in there until you can reef on an even bigger master level. You’re still young and I picture you being one of those old man reefers in the future. Work hard, get those bills and build a mansion around your fish room.I’ve been dreading posting this for a few weeks now. The owner of my condo is liquidating some assets, my home being one of them. Due to excessively high rents in Silicon Valley, my options for a new place have been limited, especially with having two cats. None of the new places my wife and I looked at allow tanks over 50 pounds, some 25 pounds, most didn’t allow them at all. My wife found a new condo that she really loves so we signed a lease for there; unfortunatly they don’t allow tanks.
I’ve been devastated and really depressed about giving up all my precious corals and fish but I really don’t have much of an option. I’ve sold off a few corals in the past week and I have to admit it makes me really sad when I bag these guys up; so many memories over the years watching them grow from laughable sized frags into impressive colonies and color up beautifully. I can’t imagine the hours I have put into these tanks. I really maintained them on what I would consider a professional level, feeding 5x daily, testing parameters daily, Zeovit dosing, target feeding coral, observing each and every coral throughout the day and see if any look unhappy long term then move them or adjust something in the tank accordingly, so many other things.
This website made my tank what it is. I just read and asked questions, listened to many different people with different methodologies and made my own that worked really well for me. These tanks were good trial runs for my dream tank. I know what I want to do and how to do it now. I made a lot of mistakes and foolish purchases on these that I will know to avoid for the next build. I’m not leaving the hobby, I just won’t have a tank for the next 12 months. Hopefully my life will be in a different place and we will be in a permanent home. Then the dream tank planning and construction begins
I sincerely thank each and every one of you who has liked, commented, read this thread and journey. You all are why I kept posting, became super active on reef2reef, and kept learning and sharing my experiences. This whole thread is a treasure trove of knowledge posted by others and occasionally me. If any new reefers are reading this, skim through this thread sometime, you might learn something useful or be able to avoid one of the many mistakes I’ve made along the way.
I’ll post about the break down of the tank as well. Like an alpha omega type deal for the whole thread. Seems kind of like a cool way to look back on my past build.
If anyone lives in the bay, please help me out and buy some coral, I have to be out of here by September. I’m selling it way under value to move stuff fast. My fish need homes too. I also really need someone to take my complete vivarium setup with the dart frogs, also my leopard gecko Gucci. Leopard gecko is free, vivarium pm me, much less than I paid for it all by far.
Like I said, I’m not leaving the hobby, I’ll still be on here helping where I can and sharing experiences and of course learning more great knowledge! The Facebook mod thing has also become sort of a full time volunteer situation on Reef2Reef’s group; so that’s a good way to get ahold of me as I’m on there a lot of the day laying down the law
Thank you all again for following my journey.
-Chris
dang sorry I missed this, hope all is well and I look forward to seeing you build your dream tank!
