Hello from WI

[merlinsmagic]

Hello! My name is Shasta I am 34 and live in rhinelander WI. I inherited my first salt water tank 5 years ago. However it was just rock, sand and a few hermit crabs. up intil recently I never thought about realy getting into sw keeping. The tank I inherited was a 12 gallon eclipse which I found out I could not keep coral in. Not with the stock lighting. So a few months ago I got a bug up my butt, joined the northern wi reef society, and have been learning. I got a dual compact flourescent light and got rid of the eclipse hood. So far I have a few zoa's, mushrooms, and pulseing xenia. That started it and in May I set up a 20 gallon from scratch. It has dual t-5 for lighting, 2 inches of sand and at least 25-28lbs of live rock. I have a few mushrooms in there and a frag of frog spawn. Nothing exciteing about it but I know in this hobby you cant rush things.
I also have a planted 10 gallon fw, a 50g breeder fw, and 7 two gallon betta tanks.
Eventualy I would like to set up a frag tank out of a 20 long, still reading on how to go about doing that.
Cant wait to check out more of this forum!

 

[Russellaqua]

Welcome to R2R! We love pics, and have an FW section too for your other tanks. Feel free to ask any questions you have.

 

[Bubbabobobbrain]

Welcome to R2R. I agree with Russellaqua, please post pics or video, we love to check out othef peoples systems.

 

[merlinsmagic]

This is what the 12 gallon eclipse looked like when I got it.

This is what it looks looked like after getting better lighting and ditching the eclipse hood..but keeping the filter..

I am going to add more rock to it yet, the xenia is realy grooveing in my tank. Which I like xenia, and somehow I can not frag this stuff and get it to grow in my 20 gallon.

This is my 20 gallon when I first set it up.

This is currently..

 

[Battlecorals Verified Sponsor]

Rheinlander is the place to be!

You have the LA Aquaculture facility in your backyard!

Are you aware of this fact?

 

[ruppertb]

Right at our back door, its nice to be able to have the facility so close, the tours are pretty amazing too!

 

[merlinsmagic]

we dont have the LA one at our back door, those are still shipped but anything that is at the WI facility, yeah I know I can get it at the retail store. I never got a full tour of the facility yet. We had a reef society meeting there once and I still didnt get to see the whole thing.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Welcome to R2R! Great to have you!

 

[Battlecorals Verified Sponsor]

we dont have the LA one at our back door, those are still shipped but anything that is at the WI facility, yeah I know I can get it at the retail store. I never got a full tour of the facility yet. We had a reef society meeting there once and I still didnt get to see the whole thing.

By LA I meant Live aquaria. Specifically you have the Divers Den in your back yard.

By all means check it out!

 

[LittleDabOSalt]

Hello Shasta and welcome! Hope you'll continue to post pics as you move along, always fun to get new tanks up and going!

 

[merlinsmagic]

I signed up for the tour of the facility for the 12th of this month, I loved what I saw at our meeting and cant wait to take the full tour. Hopefuly Kevin doesnt catch me with wet pockets LOL

 

[skinz78]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[revsgirl]

Hi there Shasta! Welcome to R2R! Great to have ya!