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I started in, I think in 2004 with a 10 gallon; then moved up to a 40 gallon quickly. I had to take a break in 2008 and then started up a 10 gallon about a year and a half ago before moving up to what I have now: a 60 gallon cube.
The only things I still have from my 40 gallon days, is a pair of mated percs, one true and one false. I was fortunate to have a close friend that could house them while I was on hiatus. I swear percs are bullet proof.
More recently I have come to a sobering but lucid realization about the aquarium hobby: The price we pay for our coral and other livestock comes at too high of a cost in both a fiscal and reef-threatening manner. This hobby should be about the proliferation and conservation of whatever I am capable of rearing in my tank. In order for us to restore what we took, there should be little to no barrier between propagating coral from my tank to another. I can only hope that the same philosophy is also adopted by the recipient.
Despite my rather long but spotted history, I have still been making mistakes. I intend to make less of them this time around; that includes my approach to reef preservation.
Cheers all!
I started in, I think in 2004 with a 10 gallon; then moved up to a 40 gallon quickly. I had to take a break in 2008 and then started up a 10 gallon about a year and a half ago before moving up to what I have now: a 60 gallon cube.
The only things I still have from my 40 gallon days, is a pair of mated percs, one true and one false. I was fortunate to have a close friend that could house them while I was on hiatus. I swear percs are bullet proof.
More recently I have come to a sobering but lucid realization about the aquarium hobby: The price we pay for our coral and other livestock comes at too high of a cost in both a fiscal and reef-threatening manner. This hobby should be about the proliferation and conservation of whatever I am capable of rearing in my tank. In order for us to restore what we took, there should be little to no barrier between propagating coral from my tank to another. I can only hope that the same philosophy is also adopted by the recipient.
Despite my rather long but spotted history, I have still been making mistakes. I intend to make less of them this time around; that includes my approach to reef preservation.
Cheers all!
