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Hi Again!
Some of you may remember me from a few years ago. I started here on tonmo when I first started keeping aquariums before finding my local SW aquarium club (WAMAS). Cuttlefish are why I first got into keeping aquariums, but I didn't have a chance to try them until about 2 years later. When I did try, there were issues with shipping and most of the eggs hatched while on the way, inked and died. I managed to keep a couple for 2-3 weeks but they were sickly and never seemed to recover. I decided to step back from cuttles and stick with reefs for a few years but now I'm ready to dive in again!
About what I've been up to (for those who remember me): I'm now a sophomore at Virginia Tech in the Corps of Cadets studying Aerospace Engineering and in Air Force ROTC. It's been 5 and a half years since I started my first aquarium and posted on here. Last Summer I started working for a local (to DC) aquarium maintenance company (Reef eScape) and continue working for them when I'm home for breaks.
Before I left for college I had a 160 reef tank (250 gal total system) that I had to break down when I left. I set up a small 11.4 gallon aquarium with frags of some of my favorite corals (though many of those have died now because they were nice -but touchy- sps) that is pretty easy for my mom to take care of. Current pics are below. She does a great job and the only maintenance the tank receives is a 1g water change per week. There's no filtration and the HOB is for macro. Livestock load is pretty heavy: pair of clowns, goby/shrimp pair, flameback angel, 3 sexy shrimp.
Here at school I have a 5g ecopico that is set up so that it's extremely easy to move back and forth. It has mainly zoas and softies and, up until last week, a very small snowflake moray eel that decided to jump out of the small (1/4") crack between the glass lid and edge of the tank. Old pics of this tank also below.
11.4 gal home aquarium:
The male Sexy:
and one of the females:
Goby/Shrimp:
corals:
FTS:
5g school aquarium:
Some of you may remember me from a few years ago. I started here on tonmo when I first started keeping aquariums before finding my local SW aquarium club (WAMAS). Cuttlefish are why I first got into keeping aquariums, but I didn't have a chance to try them until about 2 years later. When I did try, there were issues with shipping and most of the eggs hatched while on the way, inked and died. I managed to keep a couple for 2-3 weeks but they were sickly and never seemed to recover. I decided to step back from cuttles and stick with reefs for a few years but now I'm ready to dive in again!
About what I've been up to (for those who remember me): I'm now a sophomore at Virginia Tech in the Corps of Cadets studying Aerospace Engineering and in Air Force ROTC. It's been 5 and a half years since I started my first aquarium and posted on here. Last Summer I started working for a local (to DC) aquarium maintenance company (Reef eScape) and continue working for them when I'm home for breaks.
Before I left for college I had a 160 reef tank (250 gal total system) that I had to break down when I left. I set up a small 11.4 gallon aquarium with frags of some of my favorite corals (though many of those have died now because they were nice -but touchy- sps) that is pretty easy for my mom to take care of. Current pics are below. She does a great job and the only maintenance the tank receives is a 1g water change per week. There's no filtration and the HOB is for macro. Livestock load is pretty heavy: pair of clowns, goby/shrimp pair, flameback angel, 3 sexy shrimp.
Here at school I have a 5g ecopico that is set up so that it's extremely easy to move back and forth. It has mainly zoas and softies and, up until last week, a very small snowflake moray eel that decided to jump out of the small (1/4") crack between the glass lid and edge of the tank. Old pics of this tank also below.
11.4 gal home aquarium:
The male Sexy:
and one of the females:
Goby/Shrimp:
corals:
FTS:
5g school aquarium: