My name is Izaac (I also go by Zack or Ike, or whatever you decide to call me loud enough to get my attention)
I am somewhat of a jack of all trades (master of none), professionally, I've bounced around a bit. I did residential HVAC, commercial refrigeration, carwash automation/repair, telecommunications tower climber/erector, electrician welder, assembly line machinery builder, industrial automation tech, and now I work in wireless as a core network engineer. Before kids, i was an avid outdoorsman (still an outdoorsman, just less avid now), hunting, hiking, fishing etc. Other than that, I like designing things, building things, 3d printing things, and sometimes computer things.
I have been an aquarist of some sort for 20 years or so. I kept freshwater, planted tanks and grew out some discus prior to getting bit by the coral bug. Back in 2018, when my wife was pregnant with our first, I decided 'we' wanted to put a tank in the baby's room for something soothing to look at. She ended up loving it too. Anyhow, I was starting to get bored with all the freshwater options and was looking around for something fun and new, we almost went with a moon jelly tank, and settled on a salt water tank with the intentions of adding some easier corals. Here is the first iteration, a 30 gallon tank with a canister filter:
That tank ended up being too hard to coordinate maintenance with nap time (and also became an aiptasia wasteland) so it was torn down. I drilled and converted my discus tank (aqueon 75) and moved all the salty stuff into the living room in 2019, where it has been ever since. It has gone through some ups and downs, but I think it is looking somewhat decent these days:
I think I got addicted to sticks somewhere along the way...
️
