Hello... new guy here

Hi, everyone!!

I'm Ed from Virginia... I'm new here and am looking forward to getting to know everybody here...

A little background: My interest in aquarium keeping started in high school oceanography class, I then began volunteering at the Virginia Marine Science Museum as a docent, and eventually in live exhibits helping to take care of the aquariums... I also enjoyed working with the stranding team (even though in 3 years of volunteering on the stranding team I was only involved in one live marine animal rescue... all of the other ones were necropsies)... I had some friends who's family owned a pet shop, so I got the hook-up on cheap tanks and freebies... I started with a beta in a bowl, then one freshwater tank, then two... then came the saltwater... first fish-only, then inverts, then some anemones... you get the picture... I was hooked. Before I knew it, I had turned my bedroom into a fish room with a total of 11 various size tanks... there was not even room for a full bed... I had to downgrade to a twin-size that was sticking out of the closet to make room for my addiction...

anyways... after high school, I was so consumed with the demands of being a responsible adult, all of my tanks were given away or sold, and for the past 10 years, I haven't had any water in my room at all :-[ .

about 2 weeks ago, I took my 3 year old daughter to the Virginia Marine Science Museum (now called the Virginia Aquarium)... after that outing my "clean and sober aquarium-free" period is now over... I've got the bug again... so I just got a 10 gal tank and some stuff and set it up... gonna make it marine fish-only... maybe a couple of pepermint shrimp or hermits... I plan to make a large reef tank (haven't decided how large yet) I shouldn't have a problem doing this as I'm a very handy and mechanically inclined person (I'm a fabricator by trade)

sorry about the long post, but you can bet I'll be a regular here, and probably spend quite a bit of time in the DIY forum...

Ed

 

Welcome to 3Reef and Welcome back to the addiction!

 

Welcome to 3reef! Im in TN, so we're not that far apart. Ive got a hook up on new tanks. Theres a place that custom builds them close to nashville. Theres a frag swap coming up in august I think in chattanooga as well.