Rek84
Community Member
Hello fellow reefers! I'm very excited to be back into the hobby, and a part of this community.
I had my first reef tank years ago, it was a 75 gallon. For some reason, everything just "worked" and my tank was jam packed with SPS that were spreading like wildfire. It was one of the joys of my life. But, Hurricane Katrina came through and we lost power for about 4 weeks, while temperatures here skyrocketed. Needless to say, I lost everything. It was heartbreaking. I started over again with same tank, but for some reason nothing "worked" this time around. Corals would not grow or thrive, the tank developed a leak, and I just gave up. I took everything down and thought that was it.
Of course, the reef-keeping bug never left me, and I started another smaller tank (my avatar). Things were going well this time around, but then I got very ill with a heart condition and once again lost everything because I was unable to keep it up.
So, here I am back again, feeling better and hoping that the third time is the charm! I've got a few SPS frags, and am about to upgrade my lights to the new Radion PRO G4 for my birthday next week. I'm on the lookout for SPS frags, but want to choose carefully what I add as my tank is small so real estate is limited. Particularly I am now trying to find a place to get a reasonable "frag pack" with things such as a blue hoek, ice-fire echinata, blue or miyagi tort, 20,000 leagues lokani, and purple bonsai ("Garf"). I thought that blue hoeks used to be everywhere from what I remember, but I don't see them on too many sites for sale these days. Anyway, those are some on my wish list.
And...that's a little bit about me. Once again, I am very happy to be a member of this great community!
I had my first reef tank years ago, it was a 75 gallon. For some reason, everything just "worked" and my tank was jam packed with SPS that were spreading like wildfire. It was one of the joys of my life. But, Hurricane Katrina came through and we lost power for about 4 weeks, while temperatures here skyrocketed. Needless to say, I lost everything. It was heartbreaking. I started over again with same tank, but for some reason nothing "worked" this time around. Corals would not grow or thrive, the tank developed a leak, and I just gave up. I took everything down and thought that was it.
Of course, the reef-keeping bug never left me, and I started another smaller tank (my avatar). Things were going well this time around, but then I got very ill with a heart condition and once again lost everything because I was unable to keep it up.
So, here I am back again, feeling better and hoping that the third time is the charm! I've got a few SPS frags, and am about to upgrade my lights to the new Radion PRO G4 for my birthday next week. I'm on the lookout for SPS frags, but want to choose carefully what I add as my tank is small so real estate is limited. Particularly I am now trying to find a place to get a reasonable "frag pack" with things such as a blue hoek, ice-fire echinata, blue or miyagi tort, 20,000 leagues lokani, and purple bonsai ("Garf"). I thought that blue hoeks used to be everywhere from what I remember, but I don't see them on too many sites for sale these days. Anyway, those are some on my wish list.
And...that's a little bit about me. Once again, I am very happy to be a member of this great community!
