Back, after a brief Hiatus.

rocklobster707

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Hi all,

Most of you probably dont know me, but i started in and chatting with a few of you back in April a couple of weeks before my son was born. I was starting a BioCube 29 build, and was going to post pictures and such and well, as you all called it, i dropped off the face of the earth because i was swamped with my lkittle boy.

Well i just wanted to reintroduce myself. My name is Bill, my wife Kelsey and I have a little boy named Luke, and we live up in Kelseyville. Im a student nurse in nursing school, and my wife is also in health care.

I used to have a 55 gallon tank 3 years ago when i lived in Chico, and they had 2 reef shops with great people there that helped me with my noobiness. And i was part of their shops club, and i loved having people to chat it up with. There are no reef groups up here. And the only place i can go for aquarium supplies is in a small pet store that happens to have a few salt water fish. But not a single coral. I was hoping i would be able to join up with you fine people, and enjoy this wonderful aquatic hobby. (or obsession lol)

So as of now i have had my tank up and running for aqbout a month. I have a frag of pulsing xenia, some zoo's that dont seem to be the happiest, a 2 branch hammer coral, and a bubble tip anemone who wont go to the side i want him to be ( augh ) As for the fish i have a precula clown who doesnt like the anemone, a pink spotted gobby, and a firefish. I will put a pic up soon i promise. So hopefully ill talk to you all soon.
 
Hey Bill welcome back. How are Luke and mama doing?

Luke and Mom are doing great. Luke is a talker, already saying mom mom mom mum, and da da da da da da da. Lol. Dont know if he knows whats hes saying but were going to accept it as he does lol. ALso he is already pulling himself up and trying to walk, which shocked us. He really needs to slow down. Also he has been crawling for the last 2 months nonstop. Getting into everything lol. Ill post a pic when i set up a bunch of photos in my photo bucket, plus a pic of my tank which is pretty blah. But be warned dont let the little girls see Luke, he is quit a looker. Lol. :bounce2:
 
Too funny, He must take after his Mom. ;) My son was on his feet early also but when he wanted to get somewhere in a hurry he would use the combat crawl for quite a while afterwards. Lol How are the params doing on your tank and what type of inhabitants are you going to be keeping in it. Btw a month is not a long time to have a tank up. Go easy with the new additions.......
 
Congats on your little one! They grow up fast. I got a call today from my wife telling me that our one year old jumped off the couch, face first onto the wood floor. His tooth went through his bottom lip. All I could tell her is "that doesn't surprise me"! I know those fish stores well in Chico. I graduated from Chico State and used to go to those stores all the time. Isn't one called reef connection, I forget the other one. Welcome back.
 
Thank you Crispy and yes Grant he totally takes after his mother, well in personality, he looks identically like me when i was his age.

As for water parameters:
Ph: 8.0, ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 nitrate: 0 salinity: 1.024 i think (i can check tonight when i get home)

I know the Ph is low, ive been working on trying it to go up for 3 weeks and its just not moving. ALso i just checked my calandar i was wrong abiout start up date i put everything together and filled up the tank with water on October 23. My god time is flying way too fast.

As for the rest of the tank i have about 25 lbs live rock 2 inches of live sand, i have the inTank refugium and media basket in the back with Chemi-Pure Elite, Purigen, and the chaeto mnacro algae in the refugium.
 
And Crispy, yes Jody at Reef Connection in Chico was my go to shop. Fish Etc. closed down apparently a year or so ago.
 
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so here it is, i have finally gotten some pics up. So what do you think? Any suggestions and ideas of what i should be putting in here, and what would look nice?

thanks for looking, and hope to meet you all at the swap meet.:bounce3:
 
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