SCJ
New Member
Well, it’s time to join a reef forum! Although I had kept fresh water fish all my life, I never dared take the salt water plunge. I have been SCUBA diving for 46 years and lamented the fact that I could never include tropic wonders in my tank. My son “graduated” from fresh water tanks to a reef tank 6 years ago. It became his passion. Me? I loved his tank but he made it clear that I was not to touch it. He never even taught me to feed the fish. Then two things happened. (1) he upgraded to a larger tank (Red Sea 350) [and moved the empty old tank into the living room as he tried to sell it] and (2) he took off to college. Of course, the smaller tank never sold so we tossed some clown fish, mushrooms and zoas in there. I tried to limit my work on the big tank (water changes etc) as per his instructions. I “cut my teeth” on the small tank. By his Christmas break, the small tank looked way better than the big tank. He was supposed to work on the big tank but worked on his girlfriend instead. When he went back to college I became active maintaining both tanks... this is NOT a part time hobby for the faint-of-heart. He returned home for summer... the tanks are sliding into disrepair. Time to get a Neptune Apex and a roller filter up and running. (I have the luxury of valuing time over some money.) But it is also time to read up and study up. I would love some high end corals but I sure don’t want to kill anything.
This is a good site to learn with a lot of people here To help.
