Introductions thread

[Darknes]

Name: Jesse
Age: 23
Occupation: Mechanical Engineer
Tanks and sizes: 54 gallon
Where you live: Pueblo
Years in the hobby: SW:3 FW:8
Specific interests: Soft corals (zoos, mushrooms, rics), and the Huskers! (lol)

Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: Finally getting all the water parameters stabilized, and seeing the corals thrive.
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: I just moved here from Nebraska this week, and had to sell all my livestock since I didn't think they'd make the trip. Now, I have to start all over.
Pictuers of your tank: Not at this time, all I have right now is sand and water.

 

[Ezramore1]

Name: Ezra
Age: 30
Occupation: Network Engineer; Former USMC
Tanks and sizes: 40 Breeder Custom
Where you live: Airport Rd COS
Years in the hobby: 4 FW and 2 SW
Specific interests: Keeping a nice piece of the reef for friends and family
Greatest accomplishment in reef keeping: Building my 40 B
Greatest disappointment in reef keeping: Not starting with a larger system (started with a 12 JBJ)
Pictures of your tank : http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96131&st=60

 

[rekn]

"Pictuers of your tank: Not at this time, all I have right now is sand and water. "


some of the oldest buildings still standing in the history of man started the same way, funny how that works.

 

[el chupacabra]

Re: Introductions thread

I was really looking forward to going to this meeting but ended up sleeping through it...I haven't woken up late in a year.
Anyway I guess I'll introduce myself now, and see ya'll next time around.

Name: Scott
Age: 26
Occupation: Blood work - graveyard shift
Tanks and sizes: 55g
Where you live : By Garden of the Gods
Years in the hobby: 4 years (2003)
Specific interests: everything water related

Right now my tank is just being set up haven't really done much since I moved here. Only have 2 fish right now, and am looking for greenstar polyp, macro variety, pods and other stuff to get my tank going again.

 

[wheresthebeach]

Name: A.J.
Age: 28
Occupation: Bank Mgt. (zzzZZzzZZZzz)
Tanks and sizes: 125 main tank 40 sump
Where you live: Spring Ranch
Years in the hobby: 3
Specific interests: vivid SPS corals/BTAs
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: tank still looks good!
Greatest disappointment in reefkeeping: boiled my old tank

 

[maverick2113]

new Csprings reefer

new Csprings reefer

hi all. my name's blake and im a junior at the Air Force Academy. I'm from hawaii and have been help keeping up the honolulu aquarium along with my own tanks. you need a special permit there to keep a reef tank, and luckily i was working with the aquarium in a effort to propagate theirs. but now i am at the academy and cannot have a tank and i really miss it. i just found out that there were reefers in the area and LSFs too. nice to meet yall and hopefully i will get to know yall a bit better through reef keeping.
Name: Blake
Age: 22
Occupation: student/cadet
Tanks and sizes: 120,55,20L
Where you live: USAFA
Years in the hobby: 8
Specific interests: LPS,BTA and clowns
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: working with honolulu aquarium on their display tanks
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping:leaving for school and having to give up the hobby for 4 years
Pictuers of your tank none right now but you can look at my work at the honolulu aquarium website

 

[murfman]

Welcome to SCMAS, Blake, too bad you can't have a nano in you room. Hope you can attend future mettings and get to meet us.

 

[GreenPuffers]

Name:Christine Hagdorn
Age:23
Occupationog Groomer
Tanks and sizes:20g. nothing special yet
Where you live : Colorado Springs
Years in the hobby: 1
Specific interests, Still figuring it out
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping:Actually keeping things alive!!(I'm a NEWBI!!)
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: killed my poor scooter.
No camra to leave a pic

 

[Pippi2773]

Name:Sal and Mel
Age:combined age of 61
Occupation: Foodie/Cast Tech
Tanks and sizes:30 gallon
Where you live: The Springs
Years in the hobby: 6 months
Specific interests: LPS, softies, fish that work well with others
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: Creating a balanced harmony of aquatic friends. Special thanks to our friends at Fishy Buisness for helping us set up our tank and get to this point. BEST LFS IN TOWN!!!
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: The death of our first bi-colored blenny.

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[LarryW]

Name: Larry Webster
Age: 26
Occupation: Microsoft/Citrix Systems Engineer
Tanks and sizes: none at the moment. had a 70 Bowfront and 65 Oceanic before I moved to the springs.
Where you live i.e. Falcon
Years in the hobby: 5
Specific interests, i.e. gobys, Clowns, Powder Blue Tangs.
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: Had a small Powder Blue in my 70 Bowfront, He was the king of the tank, and would eat nori out of my had.
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: about 6 months after setting up my 70 bow, the fluval I had under it had it's return tube pop off the back of the tank and up against the wall. It drained 60 gallons onto the basement floor.... fortunatly all my livestock survived. I had just found this site, and wised up on setting up a tank. I removed the canister and wet dry filter, setup a 30 gallon sump with a protein skimmer, and fuge, removed the wall o rock that I had setup, and setup 2 nice islands. The tank flourished, and i gained the knowledge of how to do it right the first time.
Pictures of your tank (optional) here are some of my 70 bow...

 

[Butchdawg14]

Name:Kevin
Age: 19
Occupation: STUDENT AT UCCS
Tanks and sizes: 6GAL
Where you live AUSTIN BLUFFS AND DUBLIN
Years in the hobby: ONE WEEK
Specific interests, DONT KNOW YET (this is reguarding reefs) I like to play golf, exercise, and be with my gf whenver i can.
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: getting the tank set up
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: NOTHING YET knock on wood

i hope the pic works

 

[Caleb Kruse]

Name: Caleb
Age: 14
Occupation: Student, and Bat Boy for the Sky Sox
Tanks and sizes: 90 Gallon, Soon 12 Gallon Nano
Where you live Black Forest
Years in the hobby: 9 mos
Specific interests, Coral, Fragging
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: My 1.5' frogspawn
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: Learning my fish had Ich
Picture of my 90 gallon reef

 

[clowninaround74]

Name: Randall
Age: 18
Occupation: Student at UCCS (Professional Golf Management Major)
Tanks and sizes: 24g Aquapod
Where you live: Austin Bluffs and Dublin
Years in the hobby: 3 years
Specific interests: Golf, Girlfriend, Fish, cars
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: having a successful, stable tank
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: Watching my flame angel die from nothing that i did. He had a disease i guess
Picture

My sunpod 150w HQI is in the mail!!! so here it is with pc's.

 

[Caleb Kruse]

How do I post a pic, I tried to just attach the picture, but it didn't work.
Thanks,
Caleb

 

[Deuce67]

Caleb, load up your pics into your gallery first. Make sure its no more than 100KB I believe. You have to resize the pic first if its bigger. I use Pixresizer to shrink my pics. Its free online. Once you have it in your gallery, you can upload pics from there. You can also use Photobucket.com to load up your pics too.

 

[Deuce67]

Man there is some young folks here. Im feeling like an old fart now. LOL!

 

[Caleb Kruse]

Thanks, I'll try that.

 

[Gobydood]

Hi

Hi

Name: Lou
Age: 35
Occupation: Air force
Tanks and sizes: 45G Seaclear, 20G Sump
Where you live: Widefield
Years in the hobby: 1
Specific interests: Gobies
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: Setting up a 6 Gallon Nano with no experience at all.
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: Trearing down my 6 Gallon nano, had to go to Korea!
Pictuers of your tank:

 

[Caleb Kruse]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9345953#post9345953 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Caleb Kruse
Name: Caleb
Age: 14
Occupation: Student, and Bat Boy for the Sky Sox
Tanks and sizes: 90 Gallon, Soon 12 Gallon Nano
Where you live Black Forest
Years in the hobby: 9 mos
Specific interests, Coral, Fragging
Greatest accomplishment in reefkeeping: My 1.5' frogspawn
Greatest disapointment in reefkeeping: Learning my fish had Ich
Picture of my 90 gallon reef

Finally I am getting around to posting a pic, here it is.

 

[ReefJerk]

Caleb, what is that pink coral with the yellow rim in your pic?