jradishness
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Hey everyone,
My girlfriend and I have been in the saltwater hobby since last September, when we bought our new home and decided to decorate it with a complete nano setup we had been eyeing for about a month at the LFS (a Fluval SeaEvo13 with heater, LR, sand, 2 clowns, some starter corals and cleanup crew). That held us over for about a month before we started adding more corals slowly.
By January, we needed more room and built our own 40g breeder with a 29g tall sump. I did the build on a budget with as much DIY and used stuff as I could find. I'm handy with construction, plumbing, electrical, etc., and I still haven't paid more than $1/lb for rock (I love my LFS!). I would eventually like to do a proper build thread, but we're both working full-time and PhD students as well (I enjoy the science and research involved in the hobby), and so finding time for posting here has fallen to the bottom of a long list of priorities.
However, I do need to start a build thread to ask a handful of questions for the newest tank (a 180g FOWLR for her future porcupine puffer), and since I regularly see (long-time lurker) the first responses to build threads recommend starting with the meet-n-greet forum, I thought I'd start here.
Thanks for all of the advice that has been posted, all of the time spent helping folks, and the greatness of the forum.
Best,
Jared
My girlfriend and I have been in the saltwater hobby since last September, when we bought our new home and decided to decorate it with a complete nano setup we had been eyeing for about a month at the LFS (a Fluval SeaEvo13 with heater, LR, sand, 2 clowns, some starter corals and cleanup crew). That held us over for about a month before we started adding more corals slowly.
By January, we needed more room and built our own 40g breeder with a 29g tall sump. I did the build on a budget with as much DIY and used stuff as I could find. I'm handy with construction, plumbing, electrical, etc., and I still haven't paid more than $1/lb for rock (I love my LFS!). I would eventually like to do a proper build thread, but we're both working full-time and PhD students as well (I enjoy the science and research involved in the hobby), and so finding time for posting here has fallen to the bottom of a long list of priorities.
However, I do need to start a build thread to ask a handful of questions for the newest tank (a 180g FOWLR for her future porcupine puffer), and since I regularly see (long-time lurker) the first responses to build threads recommend starting with the meet-n-greet forum, I thought I'd start here.
Thanks for all of the advice that has been posted, all of the time spent helping folks, and the greatness of the forum.
Best,
Jared
