Hi all! I'm guessing most of you won't remember me (I only attended a very few events in my time with the club previously), but I thought I'd drop in and say hi, and I'm back!
Ok, so I've been back from Seattle over a year now, but for much of that time I was unemployed and thus a reef tank wasn't even in consideration. Then I had bills to pay (still do) and life to deal with, but as I'm settling in to my night shift... well, I still don't have a lot of spare money, but I'm thinking it's about time to get back in to the hobby, because I definitely have the time and could use something other than video-games to decompress to.
So, I should be back around the forums here from time to time, asking silly questions, and will probably be renewing my ARC membership before too much longer. My wife really enjoys fish, though she's never kept a reef of any sort, and I'm thinking we're going to be putting something together for that in bits and pieces, though fish are going to have to stay at the bottom of a very long priority list for some time.
To that end, I'm thinking of starting out (since I have no viable tanks, just a cracked 50L that is only good for reptiles) of building a refugium *first*. My thought is to get a 20 or 30 gal, some sand, a few pieces of rock, some garf grunge, and start seeing if I can get some mangroves to live. I figure by the time I've got that going well, I might have the money to spend on a larger tank to use it with, and maybe if I'm lucky score a good deal on one someone doesn't want anymore.
Cheers, hope you're all well!
(if anyone has a smaller, older tank they'd like to get rid of cheap, do let me know)
Ok, so I've been back from Seattle over a year now, but for much of that time I was unemployed and thus a reef tank wasn't even in consideration. Then I had bills to pay (still do) and life to deal with, but as I'm settling in to my night shift... well, I still don't have a lot of spare money, but I'm thinking it's about time to get back in to the hobby, because I definitely have the time and could use something other than video-games to decompress to.
So, I should be back around the forums here from time to time, asking silly questions, and will probably be renewing my ARC membership before too much longer. My wife really enjoys fish, though she's never kept a reef of any sort, and I'm thinking we're going to be putting something together for that in bits and pieces, though fish are going to have to stay at the bottom of a very long priority list for some time.
To that end, I'm thinking of starting out (since I have no viable tanks, just a cracked 50L that is only good for reptiles) of building a refugium *first*. My thought is to get a 20 or 30 gal, some sand, a few pieces of rock, some garf grunge, and start seeing if I can get some mangroves to live. I figure by the time I've got that going well, I might have the money to spend on a larger tank to use it with, and maybe if I'm lucky score a good deal on one someone doesn't want anymore.
Cheers, hope you're all well!
(if anyone has a smaller, older tank they'd like to get rid of cheap, do let me know)
