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Cesilie

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Aloha guys! I'm Cesilie and new here to the forums. I had met a couple (can't remember their names) at one of our LFS here (Tropical Haven, i was the girl in there with her mom if you're on here! lol) and they were telling me about MARS and I thought I would look into it! Its great to finally find some reefers in my area, here I was thinking I must be one of the only ones!

Anyways my experience with the hobby is fairly new at about a year but I have 7.5 years of experience with all the wonderful creatures at the Monterey Bay Aquarium where I volunteer :) I'm one of the youngsters there (20, but i look like i'm 12). I got started there doing a summer guide program and fell in love with the whole ocean there :D ever since I've been going up there every other week (its a 2.5 hours drive mind you lol) to work on my wonderful shift!

I plan on majoring in marine biology at CSUMB this next semester! woo! Then I'm hoping to go off to africa to study the GWS' at Masa Bay :) I'm in LOOOOVE with sharks and all things dangerous but i'm also a huge echinoderm nerd.

Some info on my tank:

I currently have quite the collection of nano tanks: two 10gs and a 20g with some wonderful lil critters in them... One of my 10s was setup as a egg case hatching tank for a bamboo cat shark who hatched and was sucessfully eating! In the other 10 is just some damsels, not quite sure what I wanna do with it yet... thinking dwarf seahorses.

In my 20 I have a pair of clowns, a damsel, and my snowflake eel, Malo Kelekona! I'm working on getting him a bigger tank as the one I had was destroyed by an evil child who had no right near my tank... so hes moving shortly lol.

the tanks have been up and running for about a year and its soooo completely different than the type of marine life i'm used to! its a whole different world than the colder waters we have here!


okay wow, hopefully this is in the right place, if not please feel free to move it!
 
Welcome. And no your not the only one in the area with this addiction. My name is steve and I'm a member of the mars club. Are you gonna come to a meeting? If so we look foward to seeing you
 
Welcome to RC and MARS. There are A LOT of great people in MARS.

Your volunteering at MBA reminds me a lot of a former MARS member - Matt Wandell. He started off volunteering at the Steinhart Aquarium while going to school at UC Davis. He eventually landed a job as an aquatic biologist at The California Academy of Sciences. If you are planning on a similar career plan, you might want to contact Matt for some tips. He goes by the name Matt_Wandell on RC. He's a really easy guy to talk to, and he can talk about fish for days (if not weeks and years)! (I miss my Bay Area LFS run with Matt. :P )

Here's some more info on Matt.

Interview with Matt

Pod Cast of Matt @ MARS meeting

BTW - do you scuba dive? It's a great way to get close the fish in the wild. My wife shoots them with her camera. I shoot them with my speargun. :D BTW - I do not want to run into any great whitie (except for my Caucasian friends) while diving. :P Call me a chicken.
 
Actually I dont dive :( i had an accident a few years back where i severly bruised my bruised my brain in 3 places and whenever i hit any sort of pressure my head explodes in pain :( i used to hike halfdome all the time with my family and i can't even go halfway to vernal falls anymore.... I planned on diving real soon tho :) I was told I'd be certified as a handi-capped diver, so as long as i'm certified in some form i'll be cool :)


haha, dude, you have better chances of getting killed by your own toilet than a shark!!
 
floor gets wet. people slip, hit their head on the toilet bowl. Or they are moving it and it cracks cutting your arm. Know somebody who lost his thumb moving a toilet
 
Reefugee said:
He's a really easy guy to talk to, and he can talk about fish for days (if not weeks and years)! (I miss my Bay Area LFS run with Matt. :P )
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Ha! Decades!

Don't trust Minh, he is an awful man! Just kidding, probably one of the nicest guys in MARS and certainly the funniest.

I miss ASAP trips too!
 
tankjunky said:
floor gets wet. people slip, hit their head on the toilet bowl. Or they are moving it and it cracks cutting your arm. Know somebody who lost his thumb moving a toilet
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you forgot the most common!! people are drunk/hungover and end up passing out face first into the toliet! *INSTA-DROWN* lol. well, its not funny but you know what i mean... its more common than shark attacks!

and mainly africa because I LOOOVE Air Jaws and have had the pleasure of working a bit with the AJ crew at the MBA!! I fell in love with the people and am planning on going on a research trip with them! *crosses fingers*
 
ya out there at seal island thay get some hight.i surf and shark dont bite people just swim into there mouths.just dont be dumb,you wouldnt run into a barbwire fence right so dont swim into a sharks mouth lol!
 
Cesilie said:
Anyways my experience with the hobby is fairly new at about a year but I have 7.5 years of experience with all the wonderful creatures at the Monterey Bay Aquarium where I volunteer :) I'm one of the youngsters there (20, but i look like i'm 12). I got started there doing a summer guide program and fell in love with the whole ocean there :D ever since I've been going up there every other week (its a 2.5 hours drive mind you lol) to work on my wonderful shift!
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sounds like a fun job.
 
thanks! Its an amazing job! I wish I could do it more than every other week! thats why i'm excited to go to school there :) i basically work with all my professors at the AQ so it'll be a neat experience to see them in a different type of teacher setting!
 
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