This hobby has it's ups and downs. The cycles of what's cool and what's not cool comes and goes. The next hot coral comes in and then it gets forgotten in the corner of a frag tank. Your favorite fish comes home with you one day and then then dies unexplainably. You switch up your tank from a DSB (not many people remember those days) to a shallow sand to BB. You try out new methods over the years only to remind yourself there is no magic potion in a bottle. You stay off line for long periods of time because people taint your experience with the hobby only to remember the other great people who made this hobby fun in the first place.
Then one day you're going in to have knee reconstruction surgery and you get the bright idea that Emma, my nine-year old daughter needs a tank of her own. That my friends is why Emma has Jedi Mind Tricks. She's read the Scott Michael books from cover to cover more times than most on here and she even had her picture publish in our friend Tony's book about The Coral Reef Aquarium. She's been to more fish stores than most kids have been to playgrounds and she's probably the single most reason I still have wet elbows.
The day I told her I decided to get her a tank she asked "Dad, can I get a pair of multibar pygmy's?, a goby, a carpenters flasher wrasse...*paused*...and maybe a Jawbreaker?" She's nine, and she's a Jedi and likes angelfish.
Emma's RedSea Reefer 170
Emma playing Minecraft or something
And this is what she made me on her own time at school the day after I showed her the tank
The tank is a work in progress. It's only been up a few days and I'm still recovering from knee reconstruction, but for now, it's running, it's cycling and we both are enjoying the new tank
Then one day you're going in to have knee reconstruction surgery and you get the bright idea that Emma, my nine-year old daughter needs a tank of her own. That my friends is why Emma has Jedi Mind Tricks. She's read the Scott Michael books from cover to cover more times than most on here and she even had her picture publish in our friend Tony's book about The Coral Reef Aquarium. She's been to more fish stores than most kids have been to playgrounds and she's probably the single most reason I still have wet elbows.
The day I told her I decided to get her a tank she asked "Dad, can I get a pair of multibar pygmy's?, a goby, a carpenters flasher wrasse...*paused*...and maybe a Jawbreaker?" She's nine, and she's a Jedi and likes angelfish.
Emma's RedSea Reefer 170
Emma playing Minecraft or something
And this is what she made me on her own time at school the day after I showed her the tank
The tank is a work in progress. It's only been up a few days and I'm still recovering from knee reconstruction, but for now, it's running, it's cycling and we both are enjoying the new tank
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and Emma is getting big wow!
. For lighting, the kessil works great, but I took it off a frag tank so I will need to replace that one way or another. An ATI 6x24w with e5's would be the top option right now, or a controllable LED like a radion or kessil 360.
