Hello everyone

[behlke]

My name is Adam, and I am new to the hobby. I set up a tank almost two years ago and finally went to my first CTARS meeting in June. I was poking around the forums and found you guys - a second reef club in CT! My wife will not be happy, but I have not told her yet.

I thought I should introduce myself as I am not sure how many people overlap between the two clubs.

A quick history. I have kept freshwater fish for years, and always wanted a saltwater aquarium. About two years ago, I converted a 29 gallon aquarium from freshwater to saltwater. I learned how to do many things the wrong way, and a few the right way. Right now, I have a clownfish, scooter blenny, and six-lie wrasse for fish; emerald crab, sand-sifting starfish, and various snails for CUC; and Crocea clam, Kenya tree, zoanthids, blue mushrooms, two NPS/LPS corals that arrived on my live rock, and my first SPS piece, a pocci, that I won at the CTARS raffle in June. Equipment is Radion Pro light, Tunze nanostream, and Remora HOB protein skimmer.

I hope to make it to a meeting soon.

 

[behlke]

Forgot to add, I live in New Haven.

 

[scolley]

Adam - welcome! We do get overlap between the clubs. ARKSC is so tiny, it makes sense for a number of our members to be quite active with CTARS too. It's not exclusive - just different. Our meetings are more like a small number of guys and reefer gals hanging around, eating chips (or whatever) and talking reef.

LOL, there's more to it than that. But it's not too far off the mark either.

Maybe see you at our July 27th BBQ meeting? Here's the link.

Thanks for posting. Hope to meet soon!

 

[peter15]

Hey Adam,

Nice to meet you at the ARK meeting. Looking forward to having some Chicago-style pizza with you.

Alan