Hi folks, I’m new to this forum. I got into the hobby back in 2008 when I feel like it was entering its golden age. So many people were getting into the hobby new at the time. I read book after book on fish, coral, etc. for months before buying my first tank, which was a 24 gallon AquaPod. A few years later I upgraded to a 100 gallon tank, and just kept going. At one point I had a spare bedroom with a quarantine tank in it, a small cheap tank where I was storing love brine shrimp, and a series of small tanks with really powerful lighting above them where I was quarantining coral and later on trying to frag stuff.
Then a few bad things happened... week long power outage hit the area... recovered from that... then an ice storm and no power... it seemed like I just couldn’t catch a break. Got out of the hobby in early 2018.
This past July 4th weekend I decided to get back into the hobby. I now have a Red Sea Reefer 55 gallon with AI LEDs, Eotech powerheads, a NYOS Quantum protein skimmer, Tunze ATO, Marco Rocks, a brain, a few zoas, various creepy crawlers, a couple of cardinals and a couple of orange storm trooper clowns. My tank is currently going through its newborn “ugly phase” but once it gets through that I’ll post some photos. It’s fun being back in the hobby and I’d forgotten how relaxing it is to watch a tank at night.
Then a few bad things happened... week long power outage hit the area... recovered from that... then an ice storm and no power... it seemed like I just couldn’t catch a break. Got out of the hobby in early 2018.
This past July 4th weekend I decided to get back into the hobby. I now have a Red Sea Reefer 55 gallon with AI LEDs, Eotech powerheads, a NYOS Quantum protein skimmer, Tunze ATO, Marco Rocks, a brain, a few zoas, various creepy crawlers, a couple of cardinals and a couple of orange storm trooper clowns. My tank is currently going through its newborn “ugly phase” but once it gets through that I’ll post some photos. It’s fun being back in the hobby and I’d forgotten how relaxing it is to watch a tank at night.
