cosmicbread
Community Member
Hi everyone. I kicked around nanoreef for a bit but fell off the planet for Reasons. I missed keeping a log of my fish life and float around R2R often enough, so here I officially am. I'm a late-stage grad student who also works part-time at my LFS. I've been fascinated with aquatic life since my earliest memories, and have kept freshwater aquariums for many years. My current FW setup is a planted 75g South American-inspired biotope with nano fish.
I've been doing marine for just under a year now. My build thread is pivoted toward a 20g long I set up for an urchin hitchhiker, but my "DT" is a 50g with a focus on macroalgae, gorgs, and whatever leathers/softies I can get away with (I live at home, and my mom insisted on a toby puffer, so I have to carefully arrange inhabitants around her). The planted freshwater energies are potent in me and I use daylight spectrum lights on both salty tanks, and tend to gravitate toward collecting algae. Leathers and softies are my favorites, but I do also admire hammers and some other LPS. I would love to cultivate macros for people in my area, but am still clumsily learning just what I can grow in my systems...
I'm becoming less enthusiastic about academia as times goes on, and I think I could be quite content managing displays for any of the big public aquariums, but my degrees aren't in biology. Maybe I can still find a way in.
Thanks for reading, and for all of the endless amounts of knowledge and advice and general good vibes that are accumulated here.
I've been doing marine for just under a year now. My build thread is pivoted toward a 20g long I set up for an urchin hitchhiker, but my "DT" is a 50g with a focus on macroalgae, gorgs, and whatever leathers/softies I can get away with (I live at home, and my mom insisted on a toby puffer, so I have to carefully arrange inhabitants around her). The planted freshwater energies are potent in me and I use daylight spectrum lights on both salty tanks, and tend to gravitate toward collecting algae. Leathers and softies are my favorites, but I do also admire hammers and some other LPS. I would love to cultivate macros for people in my area, but am still clumsily learning just what I can grow in my systems...
I'm becoming less enthusiastic about academia as times goes on, and I think I could be quite content managing displays for any of the big public aquariums, but my degrees aren't in biology. Maybe I can still find a way in.
Thanks for reading, and for all of the endless amounts of knowledge and advice and general good vibes that are accumulated here.
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