Chapter 1 The start of an addiction
I have been having some issues w/ my system for a little while now, and have decided that starting at the beginning might be better than starting in the middle of this tanks life. So we start w/ where this tank came from.
Back some time ago when I live in central Oregon I had a fresh water set up, but was not satisfied or challenged by it. While in Petco one day I asked the guy running the fish department what it would take for saltwater fish to be happy in my 55gal. He assured me that it wasn't possible, because saltwater fish were highly territorial and needed a much bigger tank. He said I would only be able to keep 1 or 2fish in my current tank. So I decided to wait on that idea.
A few years later and a move I took the plunge and found myself another 55gal figuring 1 or 2 fish would be a start. So I picked up my new tank and went to my local petco for fish. Greeted w/ a very small selection of fish to choose from google and I went searching for a specialized saltwater store. What we found was mind blowing as I had never seen corals outside my public aquarium. In that moment if you had asked me what a fish was I wouldn't have known.
So I went about the proses of gathering reef equipment, skimmers and proper lighting and everything else needed.
My first tank
My very first coral
And later today chapter 2
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