New to R2R but not the hobby

J N M Aquaculture · Oct 18, 2017

hello everyone

my name is mike I have been in the hobby for about 15 years now, I live, breathe, and sleep everything aquatic. I have a Masters in Marine biology, and I aquaculture fish for the state of Florida, I am in the process of moving my business up from the FL Keys to Kissimmee FL. I am constructing a 400 sqft fish and coral room at the house and a 13263 sqft coral farm about 6 miles from the house. I will hope to have the farm finished in the next 6 months and the fish room at the house done in the next month. I look forward to meeting with you all and becoming a active member here at R2R.

Ty Hamatake · Oct 18, 2017

Oh man I can't wait to see that build thread! WELCOME!

MaddyP · Oct 18, 2017

Welcome to the forum, Mike!! We would love to see a build thread on the coral farm!

mckinleyw · Oct 18, 2017

Welcome. You should have come to tampa sarasota are lol. Jk. Good luck with ur ventures and cant wait to see some pix

Mal11224 · Oct 18, 2017

Welcome to R2R, Mike. Look forward to your thread and your expertise.

DSC reef · Oct 18, 2017

Welcome to R2R! You got us all excited by saying coral farm!! Lol.

DLHDesign · Oct 18, 2017

What a way to make an entrance! Looking forward to all you have to bring to our community.

J N M Aquaculture · Oct 18, 2017

mckinleyw said:
Welcome. You should have come to tampa sarasota are lol. Jk. Good luck with ur ventures and cant wait to see some pix

I lived in north port for the last two months while I was closing on my house here in Kissimmee, liked it but I have a full time job as a Marine biologist breeding fish for the stat of Florida, I am slowly trying to leave the working for others life and move in to my own business did it for a side thing in the keys for the last 4 years and now am taking the dive into it full time but I am waiting tell I have it all set up. the end goal is to be completely full time running the coral farm in the next 6 months.

DLHDesign · Oct 18, 2017

J N M Aquaculture said:
...and now am taking the dive...

I see what you did there. ;-)

J N M Aquaculture · Oct 18, 2017

DLHDesign said:
What a way to make an entrance! Looking forward to all you have to bring to our community.

Hey DLH Design how do you obtain the ribbons and badges under you name on your posts? that is cool and shows your support.

KJ · Oct 18, 2017

Welcome to R2R Mike

DLHDesign · Oct 18, 2017

J N M Aquaculture said:
Hey DLH Design how do you obtain the ribbons and badges under you name on your posts? that is cool and shows your support.

Great question!
The badges are achieved through various actions that are deemed to contribute to the forum at-large. Some are via financial investments, while others are through your own posts, and still others are through community voting - and so on.

The very noticeable red "Build Thread Contributor", for example, can be gotten by creating your own "build thread" in one of these forums. Once started, request to join the "Build Thread Contributor" group (here).
You can also get the "Partner Member 2018" badge here.
Finally, you can upgrade your account to a "R2R Supporter" here.

J N M Aquaculture · Oct 18, 2017

DLHDesign said:
Great question!
The badges are achieved through various actions that are deemed to contribute to the forum at-large. Some are via financial investments, while others are through your own posts, and still others are through community voting - and so on.

The very noticeable red "Build Thread Contributor", for example, can be gotten by creating your own "build thread" in one of these forums. Once started, request to join the "Build Thread Contributor" group (here).
You can also get the "Partner Member 2018" badge here.
Finally, you can upgrade your account to a "R2R Supporter" here.

thanks for that I will have to get these taken care of in the next few days.... would love to help all I can.

mckinleyw · Oct 18, 2017

J N M Aquaculture said:
I lived in north port for the last two months while I was closing on my house here in Kissimmee, liked it but I have a full time job as a Marine biologist breeding fish for the stat of Florida, I am slowly trying to leave the working for others life and move in to my own business did it for a side thing in the keys for the last 4 years and now am taking the dive into it full time but I am waiting tell I have it all set up. the end goal is to be completely full time running the coral farm in the next 6 months.

Awesome hope to be buying corals from u.

Chrisfish · Oct 18, 2017

Welcome to R2R, we're happy your here. Can't wait to see some pictures!!!

J N M Aquaculture · Oct 18, 2017

Chrisfish said:
Welcome to R2R, we're happy your here. Can't wait to see some pictures!!!

I will try to get some of the screened in room that I have closed in on the house and the new room addition we are starting between the two area I will have a little over 400 sqft in the house one room will all be tanks and the next room is going to be the coral fragging station and filtration systems. I have the screened in room closed in so far but we are adding insulation to it and electrical in the next few days. want to get my remaining livestock moved up from the keys soon. and need a good place to hold inventory tell the farm is complete. have a lot of nice mother colonies.