Hello all,
I saw this thread and I guess this as good a place to introduce myself as any. My name's Alan and I've been reefing for about 8 years now. I'm running a 100 gallon LPS/Softy tank and in the process of setting up a 29G SPS dominated tank (yeah, I'm getting into the SPS thing. It's really cool to see how they grow in different shapes, not so much into the color, though color is cool too!) Thanks to advice from BAR members, I'm going to set up with t-5s pretty soon, in an attempt to upgrade my lighting intensity. it's a pretty big jump for me, as I was seriously considering quitting the hobby back in July. I woke up one morning to find my reef devastated by the heat wave. Seriously, I wanted to f_cking cry. Most pf my collection bleached or melted, except the stupid anthelia. I was wondering if it was all worth it, to take the animals from the ocean, spend some serious time and money raising them, and have them cooked 5,000 miles away from there home. I was pretty depressed. Somehow my girlfriend found some dude on craigslist GIVING his coral away for free. Apparently he cracked his nano, and wanted them to survive, and would give them to the first person who replied, to lessen the temperature shock. In good reefer fashion, I drove fast! He was for real. I could not believe it. I still can't believe it. He gave me a frogspawn, a large varieties of zoos, monti digitata, a cyloceris sp. , and more. He gave me no chance to stop. I decided to continue my collection, and now I'm starting a new tank because I'm out of space! Redundancy! After getting all this stuff, I really feel I ought to give back to this hobby. I found this site, and checked out the frag swap. I think the DBTC is great idea, and we should keep this going. Thanks for all the advice!
Alan
I saw this thread and I guess this as good a place to introduce myself as any. My name's Alan and I've been reefing for about 8 years now. I'm running a 100 gallon LPS/Softy tank and in the process of setting up a 29G SPS dominated tank (yeah, I'm getting into the SPS thing. It's really cool to see how they grow in different shapes, not so much into the color, though color is cool too!) Thanks to advice from BAR members, I'm going to set up with t-5s pretty soon, in an attempt to upgrade my lighting intensity. it's a pretty big jump for me, as I was seriously considering quitting the hobby back in July. I woke up one morning to find my reef devastated by the heat wave. Seriously, I wanted to f_cking cry. Most pf my collection bleached or melted, except the stupid anthelia. I was wondering if it was all worth it, to take the animals from the ocean, spend some serious time and money raising them, and have them cooked 5,000 miles away from there home. I was pretty depressed. Somehow my girlfriend found some dude on craigslist GIVING his coral away for free. Apparently he cracked his nano, and wanted them to survive, and would give them to the first person who replied, to lessen the temperature shock. In good reefer fashion, I drove fast! He was for real. I could not believe it. I still can't believe it. He gave me a frogspawn, a large varieties of zoos, monti digitata, a cyloceris sp. , and more. He gave me no chance to stop. I decided to continue my collection, and now I'm starting a new tank because I'm out of space! Redundancy! After getting all this stuff, I really feel I ought to give back to this hobby. I found this site, and checked out the frag swap. I think the DBTC is great idea, and we should keep this going. Thanks for all the advice!
Alan
