Mdmusicman
Active Member
Hello,
My name is Mike and I am a new member for the forum. I have been keeping freshwater aquariums for about 5 years, with the largest a 125 with my very "special" (and boy are they special acting) blood parrot cichlids.
About a year and a half ago my wife let me start into saltwater. After setting up my 55 and being unable to wait, I went and bought my 5 fish. Within the next month, I lost them all but one blue chromis. I was devastated and literally waited with one fish in the tank to die so I could just tare it down. The one lone fish survived for one year! It was so sad to just see him so lonely in the tank by himself. So I decided to restart, and to do it right! I did water changes, got my parameters all correct, and got myself two clownfish! They are thriving, so I bumped up to a goby as well as a flame hawk fish. With that as my current stock I decided to take the dive into corals. I didnt want to start with softies, so I did all my reading, felt prepared and purchased some coral from Live Aqaria. Everything seems to be going smoothly so I saw on facebook that there was this 8 hour sale on Reef2Reef through their forum, so I checked it out, and boy did I LOVE IT! It was exciting and I was able to purchase a lot of the LPS I was interested in! (dont tell my wife!). So now I am hooked and I look forward to interacting with you all on this forum!
P.S. I live in Southern Maryland, the closest saltwater store is over an hour away so if anyone from near Charles County Maryland is active here I would love to chat!
My name is Mike and I am a new member for the forum. I have been keeping freshwater aquariums for about 5 years, with the largest a 125 with my very "special" (and boy are they special acting) blood parrot cichlids.
About a year and a half ago my wife let me start into saltwater. After setting up my 55 and being unable to wait, I went and bought my 5 fish. Within the next month, I lost them all but one blue chromis. I was devastated and literally waited with one fish in the tank to die so I could just tare it down. The one lone fish survived for one year! It was so sad to just see him so lonely in the tank by himself. So I decided to restart, and to do it right! I did water changes, got my parameters all correct, and got myself two clownfish! They are thriving, so I bumped up to a goby as well as a flame hawk fish. With that as my current stock I decided to take the dive into corals. I didnt want to start with softies, so I did all my reading, felt prepared and purchased some coral from Live Aqaria. Everything seems to be going smoothly so I saw on facebook that there was this 8 hour sale on Reef2Reef through their forum, so I checked it out, and boy did I LOVE IT! It was exciting and I was able to purchase a lot of the LPS I was interested in! (dont tell my wife!). So now I am hooked and I look forward to interacting with you all on this forum!
P.S. I live in Southern Maryland, the closest saltwater store is over an hour away so if anyone from near Charles County Maryland is active here I would love to chat!
