Thanks! Totally agree! Seeing other peoples setups, and having people to chat about what’s going on in your tank is something I would not willing to give up easily. Love the Forum and all the informtion you have access to these days online, but I treasure the in person interactions evenmore.
Just got lucky I guess. He is out of QT and in the DT, doing his own thing picking on the rocks all day and getting right into the frenzy at feeding time. You could look into conditioned and QT fish at TSM aquatics - they have some available once in a while.
Thank you Sir! My pleasure to share!!
;Happy. I was experimenting with increasing my pH by running a skimmer airline to the outside with little effect. Run outside line through CO2 scrubber with little additional benefit. Run a recirculating CO2 scrubber best effect. To figure it out in general I got a little CO2 meter and was surprised that our indoor CO2 was at over 1300ppm during the Summer month, we are in a 75 year old house that should be drafty...... so started to monitor and air out the frequently. Also got rid of two of my glass tops and made screen lids. Now with trying to air out house, recirculating CO2 scrubber and screen lids my pH on good days is between 8-8.2. Can't get it any higher. Since I had it running as a temporary set up for a couple of month, I cleaned up the set up to make it not as messy. Maybe I will see higher pH later when my Alk demand increases as I currently only need ~30ml of daily supplement of keeping ALK at 8. 
Well if you talk about finding this rewarding and challenging hobby, you are absolutely right that I hit the lottery jackpot.....
Thank you all!
