Hello Everyone!
About me? 6 weeks ago, my mom tells me she doesn't like her 36 gallon freshwater bow front. So I do a search on fish and see a cool tank pic from an ARC member and I thought obviously, "That tank looks really cool... I'll, lets just change her tank over to saltwater for her and make it look like that one.". So I promise her I'll set it up next week. It's as easy as adding salt and a few fish, right?
So I start to research on ARC, and then start reading threads on ARC nightly, and soon it became daily and nightly, and then when I'm at work on breaks, and when I wake up in the middle of the night to...
and I love seeing all the new posts and killer looking tanks and different types of doo-hickeys and whatchamacallits that make them work and the cool green glowing plant/animal looking things and what does this do and that do, and why use calcium, and whats a DT (**** Tank?), frag, or a sump, skimmer, denitrator, or refusium, or LPS, SPS, acripora, montipora, Acanthastrea, enchinophyllia, zoa, blastomussa, poly, ... and OMG I get a headache as if I'm trying to learn freaking latin...BUT I JUST CANT STOP!
Fast forward to 6 weeks and $600 later, I'm just beginning this addiction and see its going to be the death of me... loss of sleep, checking for coins in the couch to save up for new frags from spikescorals, staying up late checking out those frags, researching this part and that part and cost and what size and dimensions will I need.
Anyways, 6 weeks later and now I've got a half dozen frags in her tank and she's happy with the way it looks (1,000 times better than the freshwater). I'll post a pic soon.
I must say that this site has taught me almost everything I know about saltwater, but Please! My newby question to you is DOES IT EVER END???
I guess it's time to start to change over my 70 gallon soon. :S
Seriously though ARC peeps, thanks for the helpful site. It's taught me a lot of lessons already!
About me? 6 weeks ago, my mom tells me she doesn't like her 36 gallon freshwater bow front. So I do a search on fish and see a cool tank pic from an ARC member and I thought obviously, "That tank looks really cool... I'll, lets just change her tank over to saltwater for her and make it look like that one.". So I promise her I'll set it up next week. It's as easy as adding salt and a few fish, right?
So I start to research on ARC, and then start reading threads on ARC nightly, and soon it became daily and nightly, and then when I'm at work on breaks, and when I wake up in the middle of the night to...
and I love seeing all the new posts and killer looking tanks and different types of doo-hickeys and whatchamacallits that make them work and the cool green glowing plant/animal looking things and what does this do and that do, and why use calcium, and whats a DT (**** Tank?), frag, or a sump, skimmer, denitrator, or refusium, or LPS, SPS, acripora, montipora, Acanthastrea, enchinophyllia, zoa, blastomussa, poly, ... and OMG I get a headache as if I'm trying to learn freaking latin...BUT I JUST CANT STOP!
Fast forward to 6 weeks and $600 later, I'm just beginning this addiction and see its going to be the death of me... loss of sleep, checking for coins in the couch to save up for new frags from spikescorals, staying up late checking out those frags, researching this part and that part and cost and what size and dimensions will I need.
Anyways, 6 weeks later and now I've got a half dozen frags in her tank and she's happy with the way it looks (1,000 times better than the freshwater). I'll post a pic soon.
I must say that this site has taught me almost everything I know about saltwater, but Please! My newby question to you is DOES IT EVER END???
I guess it's time to start to change over my 70 gallon soon. :S
Seriously though ARC peeps, thanks for the helpful site. It's taught me a lot of lessons already!
Looks like I'm in for the long term
