Hi all! I was in the general aquarium hobby in the 90s. I spent a lot of time collecting and propagating local wetland plants in southeast Texas as I was focused mainly on the freshwater aspects of the hobby at the time. I even had a plant press. I had all kinds of native and non-native stuff back then, but mostly freshwater, at least for what I personally owned.
Fast forward to a few months ago and I decided it was time to get back into the hobby, but this time I wanted to take on reef keeping. I maintained dozens of marine tanks for pet shops back in the 90s, so why not have my own??
Well, apparently the hobby, methods, available livestock and all kinds of stuff have changed in the past 20+ years. Omg! So I read stuff and read some more stuff and got on YouTube and learned all kinds of stuff.
So from all that, now I’m breaking in a fluval 13.5 that I modified to drain into a 10gal sump, and set up a refugium with c. prolifera on live sand. The display tank is bare bottom. The sock section in the sump has additional bio media to assist.
my LFS gave me a nice little discount on some starter corals, so I grabbed a Xenia, a blue sympodium, and a blue dot mushroom. I’m aware of the weedy nature of Xenia… I want it anyway
Anyway, pics!
Fast forward to a few months ago and I decided it was time to get back into the hobby, but this time I wanted to take on reef keeping. I maintained dozens of marine tanks for pet shops back in the 90s, so why not have my own??
Well, apparently the hobby, methods, available livestock and all kinds of stuff have changed in the past 20+ years. Omg! So I read stuff and read some more stuff and got on YouTube and learned all kinds of stuff.
So from all that, now I’m breaking in a fluval 13.5 that I modified to drain into a 10gal sump, and set up a refugium with c. prolifera on live sand. The display tank is bare bottom. The sock section in the sump has additional bio media to assist.
my LFS gave me a nice little discount on some starter corals, so I grabbed a Xenia, a blue sympodium, and a blue dot mushroom. I’m aware of the weedy nature of Xenia… I want it anyway
Anyway, pics!