Good Day Everyone!
It's taken some time to get together but I'm finally around to getting to my tank build. It was more important to me to get to know some of your first and I wanted to take the time to shout out to the people that have helped me along the way (including that very first day a kind stranger telling me that I needed to make a post when trying to make a purchase from marketplace
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Where to begin: I started this hobby about 3 years ago when we finally moved into a house. I've always felt a connection with the ocean and I've come to discover that watching my tank is (both fortunately and unfortunately) one of the few things in life that gives me a sense of peace and mindfulness. I began like many with just a simple 55 gallon form my local ifs and at the time I thought it was huge. I was able to connect with a couple of individuals here, including a person who ran a rather large reef store in the area. They provided me with the sound advice of "buy once, cry once" and I've since come to accept this as truth lol.
Since then, I have upgraded to the Innovative Marine 200g EXT due to my love of tangs and torch corals (shoutout to @VintageReefer as well as plenty of of others here!) and wanted to practice the best fish husbandry that my time and finances allowed. I dont have a phone filter for my camera, so I apologize that my pictures may not be the best and I appreciate your patience with them as well as my questions and investment. Currently, my reef holds around 20ish corals of various types, predominantly torches, with a Sun God, 24k, and a couple of Kalimantan HGs being my current centerpieces, however more are on the way and I am expanding! It also homes a purple tang (my fav!), a yellow tang, a magnificent fox face, 2 purple firefish, 6 green chromes, a single black ice clown after its partner died :/, and my workhorse orange spotted cleaner goby! I plan to add a m/f pair of mandarins this weekend and, someday, the final add will be a gem tang!
I will post pictures when I can and when I feel like they are share worthy, however, I proudly don't have any social media and don't intend to babysit this as one either. I again want to thank you all for being such a warm and welcoming community and for sharing and supporting in this love that we all have!
Cheers and Be Well
-Zmanjr
It's taken some time to get together but I'm finally around to getting to my tank build. It was more important to me to get to know some of your first and I wanted to take the time to shout out to the people that have helped me along the way (including that very first day a kind stranger telling me that I needed to make a post when trying to make a purchase from marketplace
)Where to begin: I started this hobby about 3 years ago when we finally moved into a house. I've always felt a connection with the ocean and I've come to discover that watching my tank is (both fortunately and unfortunately) one of the few things in life that gives me a sense of peace and mindfulness. I began like many with just a simple 55 gallon form my local ifs and at the time I thought it was huge. I was able to connect with a couple of individuals here, including a person who ran a rather large reef store in the area. They provided me with the sound advice of "buy once, cry once" and I've since come to accept this as truth lol.
Since then, I have upgraded to the Innovative Marine 200g EXT due to my love of tangs and torch corals (shoutout to @VintageReefer as well as plenty of of others here!) and wanted to practice the best fish husbandry that my time and finances allowed. I dont have a phone filter for my camera, so I apologize that my pictures may not be the best and I appreciate your patience with them as well as my questions and investment. Currently, my reef holds around 20ish corals of various types, predominantly torches, with a Sun God, 24k, and a couple of Kalimantan HGs being my current centerpieces, however more are on the way and I am expanding! It also homes a purple tang (my fav!), a yellow tang, a magnificent fox face, 2 purple firefish, 6 green chromes, a single black ice clown after its partner died :/, and my workhorse orange spotted cleaner goby! I plan to add a m/f pair of mandarins this weekend and, someday, the final add will be a gem tang!
I will post pictures when I can and when I feel like they are share worthy, however, I proudly don't have any social media and don't intend to babysit this as one either. I again want to thank you all for being such a warm and welcoming community and for sharing and supporting in this love that we all have!
Cheers and Be Well
-Zmanjr
