Reminiscing....... Lol

[Speg]

I had the same experience...starring at rocks....I found a few hitch hiker crabs and I thought they were the coolest things ever....my striped damsel was so cool....that pistol shrimp constantly snapping was so loud and neat...

Then, I remember it all slowly going away....I eventually learned that the crabs were trouble makers....the damsels would pick on everything...the pistol shrimp was really annoying since the room was my bedroom.

 

[Paul_N]

16 years ago I had a 29 gallon with a trickle filter, no skimmer and a couple pieces of live rock. I actually still have the 29 and will be using it on my new setup as a cryptic fuge. I had a snowflake eel, dwarf lionfish , and an undulated trigger in the 29. I only had that for a year until I saw a reef and got a 55 gallon setup. I had a maroon clown, sebae nem, and a small maxima clam that I tried to keep under NO fluorescent lights.

 

[swannyson7]

The question is...how many people were as dumb as me and got exited about all the little anemones (aiptasia) that were popping up on their new liverock? I was excited about how fast they were spreading and thought I must be doing something right!

 

[Speg]

The question is...how many people were as dumb as me and got exited about all the little anemones (aiptasia) that were popping up on their new liverock? I was excited about how fast they were spreading and thought I must be doing something right!

+1 I loved aptasia.

 

[sprinklerdudes]

strange, I didn't have aptasia problems until the last 6 months, I got them started on a overpriced frag from a high end local fish store I noticed one or two small ones on the frag about two weeks later than my ole lady got sick and was in the hospital for about a month, came back home and they were all over the tank they have killed all but one of my chalics

 

[miyags]

I remember buying my first live rock about 23 years ago. It was 20 pounds. I remember walking out of the fish store, saying to myself I cant believe you just spent 90 bucks for a rock !!!!!

 

[SDguy]

Did someone say memory lane??

Oh, and let's not forget the FO with U/G filter :bigsmile:

 

[Troylee]

Nice!!!!!! Love the stories guys.... You can see in the first post behind my first rock some aqua clear 70s those bad boys ran my ugf, and I ran a fluval 350 canister..... Lol

 

[Troylee]

No one else?????