dodgerblew
Team RC
First of all, this is not a for sale thread!
However there will be an upcoming for sale thread I will post, most likely tomorrow and certainly by the weekend at the latest.
It has been a pretty interesting year for me. I haven't spoken but to a couple people in close to but I came to some real big conclusions and decisions which I'll now tell all of you about.
I've been a hairstylist for almost 40 years and I've accomplished a great deal, made many friends and earned a good living. It's been very good to me. However, I'm tired and I'm sore. Believe it or not my body has taken a beating and I've had numerous ailments and surgeries because of it, most notably my shoulders. Both have been completely reconstructed and I still work in pain daily from one of them. Additionally as I've gotten older so has my clientele and many that have been with me for 20 or more years have retired in recent times and moved out of California, transferred out of California and some sadly have passed. I lost two in one month this year from passing away unexpectedly. It's been like losing family members. Over the last couple years my business has been realistically declining. Since I haven't been as responsible as I should have as an independent contractor I've been a poor planner and retirement is not something I can look forward to anytime soon.
So, since the summer of 2017 I've been thinking and researching what the next challenge in my life would be and since the spring of this year I've been bringing this journey from idea to reality and now it is a reality! I've become a franchisee of a new concept in frozen yogurt and ice cream and I'm quite excited by it. It will allow me to slowly phase out of one career while my next career builds itself into the expectation of success I plan on it becoming. It's been quite a journey thus far.
Where does this all take me and what's this leading up to? Changes in what occupies my time. What occupies a great deal of my time? My tank. Will I get out? No way. Can I modify the hobby to make it not be such a user of time out of my life and make my life less stressful? Yes I can. What would I need to do? Eliminate the majority if not all of my sps and keep less time intrusive types of coral. This has been a really hard decision to even think about (you all know my addiction and love for Acros) let alone decide but through lots of thought and even prayer I've decided it what's best for me.
I'm very space limited and can't move my tank nor upgrade it and to really get what I want out of it I need to add equipment that I've bought but haven't set up because I don't have the room. With the addition of the new business to my life and still managing my current business the time I used to devote to it is 1) not there and/or 2) I'm just to tired and want to relax and not deal with it. With the decline in husbandry I can see the effect on the tank and its inhabitants. It isn't fair to me or the living animals. So I'm going to stay with my fish, my LPS and softies and maybe revisit SPS at a later time.
So I will be making a list of all my acros from frags to mini colonies to colonies and I will be selling them. Many of them will be sold in groups meaning if they're encrusted on the same rock then I'll sell the rock. I'd rather not break them off. Many of the acros are on Alternative Reef magnetic frag stations and I'll try to sell them the same way, untouched and unharmed. I have quite a bit of high end equipment, for instance I have a brand new newer edition Apex I've never even taken out of the box with a bnib kindle display. I have a complete calcium reactor setup with dual chambers, tank, carbondoser reg and brushless masterflex (the silent kind
). There's more but this isn't the thread for it and it'll all be explained and priced in the actual forthcoming for sale thread. This thread is about letting you, my friends, know of my upcoming journey and plans. Talk to you all soon!
However there will be an upcoming for sale thread I will post, most likely tomorrow and certainly by the weekend at the latest.
It has been a pretty interesting year for me. I haven't spoken but to a couple people in close to but I came to some real big conclusions and decisions which I'll now tell all of you about.
I've been a hairstylist for almost 40 years and I've accomplished a great deal, made many friends and earned a good living. It's been very good to me. However, I'm tired and I'm sore. Believe it or not my body has taken a beating and I've had numerous ailments and surgeries because of it, most notably my shoulders. Both have been completely reconstructed and I still work in pain daily from one of them. Additionally as I've gotten older so has my clientele and many that have been with me for 20 or more years have retired in recent times and moved out of California, transferred out of California and some sadly have passed. I lost two in one month this year from passing away unexpectedly. It's been like losing family members. Over the last couple years my business has been realistically declining. Since I haven't been as responsible as I should have as an independent contractor I've been a poor planner and retirement is not something I can look forward to anytime soon.
So, since the summer of 2017 I've been thinking and researching what the next challenge in my life would be and since the spring of this year I've been bringing this journey from idea to reality and now it is a reality! I've become a franchisee of a new concept in frozen yogurt and ice cream and I'm quite excited by it. It will allow me to slowly phase out of one career while my next career builds itself into the expectation of success I plan on it becoming. It's been quite a journey thus far.
Where does this all take me and what's this leading up to? Changes in what occupies my time. What occupies a great deal of my time? My tank. Will I get out? No way. Can I modify the hobby to make it not be such a user of time out of my life and make my life less stressful? Yes I can. What would I need to do? Eliminate the majority if not all of my sps and keep less time intrusive types of coral. This has been a really hard decision to even think about (you all know my addiction and love for Acros) let alone decide but through lots of thought and even prayer I've decided it what's best for me.
I'm very space limited and can't move my tank nor upgrade it and to really get what I want out of it I need to add equipment that I've bought but haven't set up because I don't have the room. With the addition of the new business to my life and still managing my current business the time I used to devote to it is 1) not there and/or 2) I'm just to tired and want to relax and not deal with it. With the decline in husbandry I can see the effect on the tank and its inhabitants. It isn't fair to me or the living animals. So I'm going to stay with my fish, my LPS and softies and maybe revisit SPS at a later time.
So I will be making a list of all my acros from frags to mini colonies to colonies and I will be selling them. Many of them will be sold in groups meaning if they're encrusted on the same rock then I'll sell the rock. I'd rather not break them off. Many of the acros are on Alternative Reef magnetic frag stations and I'll try to sell them the same way, untouched and unharmed. I have quite a bit of high end equipment, for instance I have a brand new newer edition Apex I've never even taken out of the box with a bnib kindle display. I have a complete calcium reactor setup with dual chambers, tank, carbondoser reg and brushless masterflex (the silent kind
). There's more but this isn't the thread for it and it'll all be explained and priced in the actual forthcoming for sale thread. This thread is about letting you, my friends, know of my upcoming journey and plans. Talk to you all soon!
