Intro and a Thank You

[ltopper]

Hi everyone.....

I'm Lisa and live in Cecil County, MD. I'm not yet a member of the DRC but hope to be soon. I am new to this hobby (ok, I mean obsession...err, lifestyle lol) and just last night finally got my 125gl marine tank up and running. I was planning on a FOWLR BUT think I may try for a few shrooms and "easier" soft corals.
We'll see if I'm brave enough to try it though! lol

I also just had to saya warm thank you again to Jim (greeneyedcat) who has been so nice in giving me helpful information to get me started. I was lucky to have found Jim here and was able to get thelast of his LR from his tank which I needed to seed mine. His set up is (was) amazing and though I doubt mine will ever be as "high tech" as his......I hope to be able to have some success from seeing what he's done over the last 7 years.

To say I'm "obsessed" about this is an understatement as I was up till 3:30 am getting everything "just right"! lol And then I was so excited to see everything "toegther" that I couldn't fall alseep right away..................pretty pathetic huh? lol

I'm looking forward to meeting the members of the club and hope I don;t become too much of a pain with all the questions I'm bound to be asking.

Thanks again...will post pics soon of "The Beginning" )

 

[JJM]

lotta good people here, join DRC !

 

[RBTA]

Welcome, and if you have any questions don't be shy, everyone is willing to help the best they can.
-Chris

 

[logans_daddy]

hello Lisa
goodbye Lisa's checkbook

shawn:bum:

 

[ltopper]

LOL You got that right Shawn!!

I also show dogs......which is bad enough in draining the checkbook BUT hey, keeps me outa trouble! lol

I'm about to order the "correct" lighting for the tank and will have that up and running mid-next week I hope. Then, I might actually make the jump to a few sand sifters!! Waahhooooooo
Next big step might be to find a few baby soft corals (that's right...didn't I say a few weeks ago I was doing JUST FISH!! lol)

Getting my quarantine tank set up tomorrow and will get that up and running for a while before I venture into the first BIG purchase....................per Jim's advice, a group of 7 small blue/green chromis!! Watch out....I'm living dangerously now!!

 

[kaptken]

Hello Lisa

You sound like you fit right in. Welcome! we all seem to be a bit obsessive about the hobby of reef keeping. There's something about it that just seems to grow on you... till one day you wake up with gills and barnacles. Nobody knows how it happens, just does.

Sounds like you are setting up a great tank. I wish you lots of luck!! Big Jim is a great guy, I'm going to miss him and his little projects. I hope he still drops in on meetings now and then. He's right about the green chromis. Nice fish, hearty, easy to care for, good tank mates and they school up nicely to display out front.

Uhhh... Doggies? What kind of doggies do you raise? I used to know some people out west that raise and show Saluki's and Borzoi. Both fun dogs, but if they get loose on the beach, you have to run "VERY FAST" to catch them.

 

[greeneyedblackcat]

Hey are "Reefless looser" guys allowed in the DRC ? I do still have a 250gallon pond if that counts. I will still drop in on the meetings if you guys dont mind all my DIY chatter.>>>>>>Jim K P.S. Hey Lisa thanks for the nice words and your crabs and snails are ready any time you are

 

[kaptken]

Big Jim!!

Of course we all hope to see you around meetings and stuff. You are just going thru an NPR phase. Non Practicing Reefer. But you will get over it!! once a REEFER always a REEFER. You will be up late at nights dreaming up plans for the next bigger and better one, for when the time and opportunity comes around again.

Hey, I still have to get busy digging my koi pond. i think it will be about 2000 gallons. I went to one of Marty's fresh water club meetings this spring when one of the guys did a super slide show of his new 30-40,000 gallon?? pond system that takes up most of his back yard. Hundreds of fish!! got inspired.

You know, you have lots of room and slope to your back yard to expand that upper pond to a series of cascading and progresively larger ponds ending up with a nice big one surounding the back porch. think about it. You get to DIG BIG HOLES in the yard!!! you could connect them with streams and waterfalls. bablling brooks!! I wonder if you could keep brook trout? and go fly fishing off the deck? what a concept...

I bought some floating aquatic plants at their auction, and they have multiplied!!. would you like some for the pond.? a few little ones have now completey covered the surface of the 110 gallon tub i'm growing a dozen koi in till i dig the pond.

one hobby leads to another. I'm just a fish head , i guess.

 

[wds21921]

If you don't come Jim we'll have to send out an APRB.
When the reef police do pick you up, we'll set the bail at 2 cups of coffee.