New from the driftless area

[ricky817]

Hello everyone. My name is Ricky, I’m from the driftless region of iowa/minnesota/Wisconsin. I live about 20 miles from La crosse Wisconsin. I’m not new to reefing, but I am new to the forum. I currently don’t have any tanks setup, but want to start another pico and nano soon, followed by a predator tank down the road. Does anyone from the area know of any good local fish store? I used to go to olde town, but they shut down. La crosse has a marine land, but I’ve never been a fan of them. Other than that it’s petco. There are 0 stores with coral now either. The closest I can find a good fish store is in Minneapolis and that’s about a 4 hour trip for me. Anyway, I hope I can someday be a benefit to the community hear and I’m eager to learn all I can from everyone here.

 

[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[PeterC99]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Kennya]

Welcome to R2R Ricky

 

[Zach B]

Welcome

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Billldg]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Fred2482]

Welcome!

 

[Just John]

Glad you're here Ricky!

 

[Jedi1199]

Welcome to the Dark Side...

 

[Schraufabagel]

 

[ShrimpBandit]

Hello everyone. My name is Ricky, I’m from the driftless region of iowa/minnesota/Wisconsin. I live about 20 miles from La crosse Wisconsin. I’m not new to reefing, but I am new to the forum. I currently don’t have any tanks setup, but want to start another pico and nano soon, followed by a predator tank down the road. Does anyone from the area know of any good local fish store? I used to go to olde town, but they shut down. La crosse has a marine land, but I’ve never been a fan of them. Other than that it’s petco. There are 0 stores with coral now either. The closest I can find a good fish store is in Minneapolis and that’s about a 4 hour trip for me. Anyway, I hope I can someday be a benefit to the community hear and I’m eager to learn all I can from everyone here.

Welcome! I'm up in Ashland and have the same problem - best options are all in the Twin Cities. Makes for a fun weekend adventure from time to time, but otherwise, it's all buying online and hoping for the best.

 

[ricky817]

Thanks everyone. Here’s some pictures I took of my old 5G nano setups when I first set them up. The person I put in charge of my 75g when I was moving about 6 years ago crashed the tank hard in about 2 weeks. I lost everything but these two clowns. I love the look of the coral skeletons and think I may do that again this time aswell. I don’t have any pics of my 75 for some reason. But I had multiple rbta’s, I had 2 green bubble tips. I had quite a few lps softies and mushies. I had the two clowns, a cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp, porcelean crabs. Fox faced rabbit fish and I can’t remember the ther fish.

 

[ricky817]

I agree, my wife loves taking the trips up to the cities and going to the fish stores. There’s some really nice ones up there. I’ve never bought anything offline. I always ordered stuff through the shop that shut down, who do you buy from online? Do you have good luck with your livestock surging with as unpredictable as the weather can be up here?

Welcome! I'm up in Ashland and have the same problem - best options are all in the Twin Cities. Makes for a fun weekend adventure from time to time, but otherwise, it's all buying online and hoping for the best.

 

[Jeffcb]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[CoralB]

Welcome!!!

 

[tharbin]

Ricky, welcome to R2R!

 

[G Santana]

Welcome to R2R

 

[ying yang]

Hello and welcome to r2r ,hope all is well and you can find some local lfs for yourself ^_^

 

[Jonify]

Welcome! One thing I did when I moved to my area was fired up Yelp and typed in "aquarium" and went to every single shop it showed within driving distance. Met some really cool people in those places!