Hi all,
I am currently a high school teacher at St. Augustine Catholic High School (eastside of Tucson) and am starting up a Marine Biology class this year. I was in the hobby for about 5 years before I moved to Tucson 3 years ago. I am originally from Michigan were I had a 150g and 29g mixed reef. As much as I loved the hobby, I had to sell my tank and move to Tucson where I am now trying to instill the love into the students.
After talking to my administration last year, they were fully supportive of incorporating the new class into our curriculum this year as a single semester science elective. I believe that a marine tank will bring excitement to the class and fuel curiosity. I could go on and on about all the benefits a tank can bring to a classroom in terms of hands on learning (I also teach Biology so it can also be used in that class as well) but all of you already know this.
I was able to get a drilled 90g tank with a 29g sump donated along with a protein skimmer and return pump but that is about it. As much as I would love to dive right in a start a full blown reef tank, I decided to take it a little slower by only doing a FOWLR this year. My long term goal would be to use the 90g as a FOWLR and plumb it to a bigger sump (perhaps a 100g rubbermaid). I really believe that creating a big, fully functional sump with macro, mangroves, ect to show how nutrients cycles within an ecosystem would be extremely beneficial. Then next year, I would like to get a 50g tank and use that as a mixed reef tank and plumb it into the larger rubbermaid sump.
Anyways, that would be my goal but would need some help. I have no other equipment besides what was listed so if anyone has any spare equipment such as pumps, heaters, lights, powerheads, test kits, chemicals, or any of there hundred things that would be helpful that you can donate (or sell for cheap
), we would greatly appreciate it. We could also use some live rock, sand, fish, clean up crew, macro, ect.
Anything you can do would be of great help.
Thank you so much!!
I am currently a high school teacher at St. Augustine Catholic High School (eastside of Tucson) and am starting up a Marine Biology class this year. I was in the hobby for about 5 years before I moved to Tucson 3 years ago. I am originally from Michigan were I had a 150g and 29g mixed reef. As much as I loved the hobby, I had to sell my tank and move to Tucson where I am now trying to instill the love into the students.
After talking to my administration last year, they were fully supportive of incorporating the new class into our curriculum this year as a single semester science elective. I believe that a marine tank will bring excitement to the class and fuel curiosity. I could go on and on about all the benefits a tank can bring to a classroom in terms of hands on learning (I also teach Biology so it can also be used in that class as well) but all of you already know this.
I was able to get a drilled 90g tank with a 29g sump donated along with a protein skimmer and return pump but that is about it. As much as I would love to dive right in a start a full blown reef tank, I decided to take it a little slower by only doing a FOWLR this year. My long term goal would be to use the 90g as a FOWLR and plumb it to a bigger sump (perhaps a 100g rubbermaid). I really believe that creating a big, fully functional sump with macro, mangroves, ect to show how nutrients cycles within an ecosystem would be extremely beneficial. Then next year, I would like to get a 50g tank and use that as a mixed reef tank and plumb it into the larger rubbermaid sump.
Anyways, that would be my goal but would need some help. I have no other equipment besides what was listed so if anyone has any spare equipment such as pumps, heaters, lights, powerheads, test kits, chemicals, or any of there hundred things that would be helpful that you can donate (or sell for cheap
), we would greatly appreciate it. We could also use some live rock, sand, fish, clean up crew, macro, ect. Anything you can do would be of great help.
Thank you so much!!
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