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My name is William, I'm new to R2R but I've been in the hobby for around 13 years. I am from Georgia, I'm 31 years old and married with children. My oldest daughter and I share this hobby together. I started when I was around 17 or 18 years old with a FOWLr 46 gallon bow front tank and a canister filter, I had it for three years, I lost my seahorses that were in it while I was on vacation due to a heater failure:(. I gave the surviving fish to a friend who was also a fellow hobbiest and I bathed I'm my sorrow for a couple of years and finally convinced myself to try again, but this time with a reef tank. I started foolishly small and as the the years went by the tanks got bigger. So I currently have a 75 gallon tank with a diy beananimal coast to coast overflow with full siphon, regular stand pipe and emergency pipe, a diy glass sump that holds roughly 55 gallons, curve7 skimmer, 1600 gph DC return pump, 600 gph auxiliary DC pump for reactors, multiple heaters, BRS 2-part dosing pumps, Hydor circulation pumps, Hydor wave maker controller, Hydor ATO, AI Hydra's with T5's and ATI bulbs, all ran by a reef keeper elite. This tank has been running for 3 years now

livestock: 2 clarkii galaxy clowns, yellow tang, blue/green chromis', mandarin.

Corals: purple with green tip branching hammer, green with purple tip branching hammer, frogspawn, duncans, candy canes, toadstool leather, richordia's, acans, favia, turbinaria, acropora, montipora. green star polyps.
 
Welcome to R2R William and thanks for joining. Share some pictures when you get a chance...we'd love to see what you have going on.
 
I certainly will and thanks. I've been a member of RC but in the last few years that forum has declined in the quality of information. I'm looking for a place that's low speed and more mature, with good people to share quality advice with each other.
 
Welcome to R2R! We like pictures:)

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Welcome to R2R William.
 
Thanks salty, kschweer, reeferfourlife, & KJ. I'll post some pictures Thursday, I work out of town.
 
My name is William, I'm new to R2R but I've been in the hobby for around 13 years. I am from Georgia, I'm 31 years old and married with children. My oldest daughter and I share this hobby together. I started when I was around 17 or 18 years old with a FOWLr 46 gallon bow front tank and a canister filter, I had it for three years, I lost my seahorses that were in it while I was on vacation due to a heater failure:(. I gave the surviving fish to a friend who was also a fellow hobbiest and I bathed I'm my sorrow for a couple of years and finally convinced myself to try again, but this time with a reef tank. I started foolishly small and as the the years went by the tanks got bigger. So I currently have a 75 gallon tank with a diy beananimal coast to coast overflow with full siphon, regular stand pipe and emergency pipe, a diy glass sump that holds roughly 55 gallons, curve7 skimmer, 1600 gph DC return pump, 600 gph auxiliary DC pump for reactors, multiple heaters, BRS 2-part dosing pumps, Hydor circulation pumps, Hydor wave maker controller, Hydor ATO, AI Hydra's with T5's and ATI bulbs, all ran by a reef keeper elite. This tank has been running for 3 years now

livestock: 2 clarkii galaxy clowns, yellow tang, blue/green chromis', mandarin.

Corals: purple with green tip branching hammer, green with purple tip branching hammer, frogspawn, duncans, candy canes, toadstool leather, richordia's, acans, favia, turbinaria, acropora, montipora. green star polyps.

Hi William,

Welcome to the forum:)
It is so cool that your children are also interested in the hobby!
How popular is the aquarium life in Georgia?

Zhenya
 
Hi William,

Welcome to the forum:)
It is so cool that your children are also interested in the hobby!
How popular is the aquarium life in Georgia?

Zhenya

The hobby's popularity in Georgia is average, if I was guessing. I frequently visit three different LFS's and there are usually at least 8-10 customers in there at any given time.
 
I promised some photos, I'm not going to give any of the tank and sump yet because I am relocating it to an in-wall set up and hopefully I can do updates as I go!
 
Well there is some of it, I could only get the female clown in one of the pictures and the male's tail, lol. Like is said, I'll do updates on my in-wall build as I go, hopefully I can get started this weekend. I'll take better pictures of the tank and filtration set up once I have everything situated, it's all a mess right now. My clowns are hosting my larger branching hammer, they seem to like it and it doesn't mind them at all.
 
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