Hi from G'ville, FL

[seafansar]

Hi!

Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sara and I recently got into saltwater tanks. I started with a 20 gallon in Jan. '08 and then quickly upgraded to a 125 gallon reef and 54 gallon FOWLR. After a few bouts of algae and ich in the 125, I've finally gotten things under control. I QT everything now since I lost almost all of my fish to ich and kept the main tank fishless for 7 weeks.

The reef tank has several sps's, a frogspawn, acan, favia, maze brains, candy cane, duncans, zoanthids, a corky finger gorgonia, and a big RBTA. I went kind of coral crazy. So far there are a pair of skunk cleaner shrimp, orange linka starfish, a strawberry crab, a pair of perculas, a bullet goby, neon goby, green mandarin, and orange shoulder tang in the tank.

The 54 gallon is a little bit more crowded with a talbot damsel, spotted mandarin, bicolor angel, redheaded fairy wrasse, a pair of clarkii clowns, and a convict tang that I'm going to put into dad's tank when he gets bigger.

I got interested in saltwater tanks when I took invertebrate zoology at UF. I saw the university's reef tank and fell in love. I'm actually helping maintain that tank and a few others now too.

Ok time for pictures!

Left side

Center

Right.

The 54 gallon before the fish were added.

 

[Lytehouse]

Nice upgrades in only few months !!!!!

Thanks for sharing pics. Hang around awhile and share more as they progress...

 

[seafansar]

Haha... Yeah. I managed to get my dad into the hobby again (he had a 55 gallon a long time ago) and he let me buy the big tank. It was used, so I got a good deal. And he bought me the 54 gallon and a 90 gallon for his work and 125 for himself. My mom wants to kill me now for getting him back into the hobby!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Awesome! Great to have you as a member at R2R! How did you find out about us? :D

 

[seafansar]

Awesome! Great to have you as a member at R2R! How did you find out about us? :D

By chance. I was researching something and an R2R thread came up.

 

[SouthernR]

Welcome!

 

[Zoanuts]

Welcome to the wild and Wacky R2R!!!!!!!!!!

 

[seafansar]

Thanks for the welcome everyone!

 

[Poseidon]

Welcome to R2R Sara. But.... I CAN't STOP myself from this.....

Go BLUE!!!!

 

[seafansar]

Oh you're mean! I was sitting on the Michigan side too, cause my dad got tickets from his client in Michigan. :angry7:

 

[dfurbee]

:wave::wave:

 

[Poseidon]

Sorry... I had to! All in good fun, nice tanks you have there!

 

[seafansar]

It's ok. I'm really not a big sports fan anyway. That was the only football game I've been to actually.

 

[seafansar]

Hey, is anyone else here from Gainesville? I've been wanting to find local people in the hobby and maybe set up a club or something like that. The only people I knew from around here have moved. :(