This is a great honor and I am very happy to be selected on this great forum, lots of great people here and tons of information.
My name is Sam, I am from the nice cornfields of Iowa. With that being said there isnt a lot of information about saltwater tanks in this area. I started my first saltwater tank 15 years ago shortly after i was married to my wonderful wife. She is from Indonesia so a saltwater tank was a way to make her feel more at home. When I first started my saltwater tanks I took infomation I got from a local fish shop, needless to say I started with a 20 gal tank with clownfish, an anemone, damsels, and tangs. Lets just say things did not start off well. After doing lots of research of my own and finding reefcentral things changed for the better. With the help of alot of great people on here I upgraded to a 46 gal bowfront mixed reef which soon moved up to the 75 gal I have now and soon to be a 300+ gal.
I am always reading to learn new things and love to help others out as much as I can so they dont go through the same mistakes I have gone through when I first started. I owe a big part of all I have learned from this website and the great people on here.
As of now my display tank is in growing mode while I spend alot of my time breeding fish, I have only bred a few types of clowns and cardinal fish as of now but have other types in the works. I've always liked new challenges.
So in conclusion I would again like to thank my wife for being with me through the good and bad, the staff at RC for keeping this website a family friendly site (they do alot for this site and dont get enough thank you's), and also for everyone else for helping make this place a great site for information, without everyones input this site wouldnt be what it is.
Thank you very much for this great honor and I hope to be around for many more years trying my best to help others.
My name is Sam, I am from the nice cornfields of Iowa. With that being said there isnt a lot of information about saltwater tanks in this area. I started my first saltwater tank 15 years ago shortly after i was married to my wonderful wife. She is from Indonesia so a saltwater tank was a way to make her feel more at home. When I first started my saltwater tanks I took infomation I got from a local fish shop, needless to say I started with a 20 gal tank with clownfish, an anemone, damsels, and tangs. Lets just say things did not start off well. After doing lots of research of my own and finding reefcentral things changed for the better. With the help of alot of great people on here I upgraded to a 46 gal bowfront mixed reef which soon moved up to the 75 gal I have now and soon to be a 300+ gal.
I am always reading to learn new things and love to help others out as much as I can so they dont go through the same mistakes I have gone through when I first started. I owe a big part of all I have learned from this website and the great people on here.
As of now my display tank is in growing mode while I spend alot of my time breeding fish, I have only bred a few types of clowns and cardinal fish as of now but have other types in the works. I've always liked new challenges.
So in conclusion I would again like to thank my wife for being with me through the good and bad, the staff at RC for keeping this website a family friendly site (they do alot for this site and dont get enough thank you's), and also for everyone else for helping make this place a great site for information, without everyones input this site wouldnt be what it is.
Thank you very much for this great honor and I hope to be around for many more years trying my best to help others.
