Cassette87
Well-Known Member
Well, at the start of the year, I decided to get back into the hobby, fantastic for me, bad for my wallet! Anyhow, I got my tank up and running, and soon found the RS community, where many of you have already helped me out tremendously! I would like to especially thank Cougra and Icstorc, for all of their help thus far! I couldn't possibly have had peace of mind without the input, advice, and opinions of you two! Anyhow, Here goes:
About a year and a half ago, I had the same size aquarium set up, only FOWLR and without a heck of a lot of knowledge. Unfortunatley, I don't have any pictures of my old setup, however, this time around will be much different!
Well, when setting up my current setup, I intended to mimic my last go at the hobby, and expand on it over time, originally thinking that setting up a reef would be somewhat lame, since i was so fascinated with my old dwarf zebra lionfish :snshne: I can't quite say what it was that made me see the light though... I suppose once I had the tank to the point where I was able to add a clean up crew, I began to think, well their just going to get eaten... and so I picked up three blue chromis when the time was right, and I was fascinated how much personality even the smallest most unexpected fish could have. This is when I found RS, and I think thats when I got bit. Another hobby of mine includes growing carnivorus plants, venus fly traps, sundews, pitcher plants, and so on. and it dawned on me that a reef was in a sense an even more wild of a garden than the one i have! So, I went out and picked up My first coral, a rock with three mushroom polyps. (pictures to follow) since then, Which, mind you, hasn't been very long, I have added 6 narcssisus snails, and 4 blue leg hermits, one of which was lost to the substrate while aranging new LR
And finally a Cleaner shrimp named piere and a rock of orange and button polyps. There will surely be more to come in the not so distant future, and equipment upgrades coming later this week, so I thought why not start a "reef chronicle" after reading a number of them, the input each and every one of you offer is invaluable to ultimatley making my piece of the ocean as good as it can be! Thank you to everyone on RS!
Without Further Adieu, Photographs, in chronological order.
About a year and a half ago, I had the same size aquarium set up, only FOWLR and without a heck of a lot of knowledge. Unfortunatley, I don't have any pictures of my old setup, however, this time around will be much different!
Well, when setting up my current setup, I intended to mimic my last go at the hobby, and expand on it over time, originally thinking that setting up a reef would be somewhat lame, since i was so fascinated with my old dwarf zebra lionfish :snshne: I can't quite say what it was that made me see the light though... I suppose once I had the tank to the point where I was able to add a clean up crew, I began to think, well their just going to get eaten... and so I picked up three blue chromis when the time was right, and I was fascinated how much personality even the smallest most unexpected fish could have. This is when I found RS, and I think thats when I got bit. Another hobby of mine includes growing carnivorus plants, venus fly traps, sundews, pitcher plants, and so on. and it dawned on me that a reef was in a sense an even more wild of a garden than the one i have! So, I went out and picked up My first coral, a rock with three mushroom polyps. (pictures to follow) since then, Which, mind you, hasn't been very long, I have added 6 narcssisus snails, and 4 blue leg hermits, one of which was lost to the substrate while aranging new LR
And finally a Cleaner shrimp named piere and a rock of orange and button polyps. There will surely be more to come in the not so distant future, and equipment upgrades coming later this week, so I thought why not start a "reef chronicle" after reading a number of them, the input each and every one of you offer is invaluable to ultimatley making my piece of the ocean as good as it can be! Thank you to everyone on RS! Without Further Adieu, Photographs, in chronological order.
