Matthew5664
Fish Herder
So....................
Been away for some time now.... the old take is gone and a desk is in its place. Dabbled around with FW for a while but the salty side is drawing me back for more.
While I have been away.
Got married.
Had more children.
Got a promotion at work.
Got a new car.
what I'v missed.
The enjoyment of watching the interaction of fish and inverts with the environment I have set for them and the up keep of that environment.
What I have not.
Waking to find my living room flooded (on more than one occasion)
Spending all my money on the one hobby
Worrying night and day that all the live stock would die.
What’s coming?
A small (ish) SW set-up with soft corals and small easy keep fish. My first born is of an age now where he's 'into' things and the latest craze is Deep Blue. For those of you who don't know this is a BBC spin off from the 'Blue Planet ' series that about 90 mins long and are just really footage set to music.
now there is no way I can capture an ocean in a small set-up however I think he would have more enjoyment from a SW (I mean me of course) than he does the current FW set-up.
There is one but!
The Wife, now last time this hobby turned obsession got in the way a bit and I swore I would never (OK not never) come back to it in the way I did last time.
This I believe you can help with, all my ideas I'll be posting but when I start to say things like-
4 foot is like 3 foot just a bit bigger
Of course it won't make much noise
250W MH is not enough for the coral I want
Please post in underlined capital letters "SHE WON'T APPROVE" this might help me stay away from my delusions of grandeur about the system I'm building.
So all of this said I now need to go shopping and get some new bit's and bob's then raid the loft for all the old gear that I did not sell and make a start......................
I'll be keeping you all informed in a build thread.
Speak soon.
Been away for some time now.... the old take is gone and a desk is in its place. Dabbled around with FW for a while but the salty side is drawing me back for more.
While I have been away.
Got married.
Had more children.
Got a promotion at work.
Got a new car.
what I'v missed.
The enjoyment of watching the interaction of fish and inverts with the environment I have set for them and the up keep of that environment.
What I have not.
Waking to find my living room flooded (on more than one occasion)
Spending all my money on the one hobby
Worrying night and day that all the live stock would die.
What’s coming?
A small (ish) SW set-up with soft corals and small easy keep fish. My first born is of an age now where he's 'into' things and the latest craze is Deep Blue. For those of you who don't know this is a BBC spin off from the 'Blue Planet ' series that about 90 mins long and are just really footage set to music.
now there is no way I can capture an ocean in a small set-up however I think he would have more enjoyment from a SW (I mean me of course) than he does the current FW set-up.
There is one but!
The Wife, now last time this hobby turned obsession got in the way a bit and I swore I would never (OK not never) come back to it in the way I did last time.
This I believe you can help with, all my ideas I'll be posting but when I start to say things like-
4 foot is like 3 foot just a bit bigger
Of course it won't make much noise
250W MH is not enough for the coral I want
Please post in underlined capital letters "SHE WON'T APPROVE" this might help me stay away from my delusions of grandeur about the system I'm building.
So all of this said I now need to go shopping and get some new bit's and bob's then raid the loft for all the old gear that I did not sell and make a start......................
I'll be keeping you all informed in a build thread.
Speak soon.