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Europhyllia
Thu, 8th Oct 2009, 11:36 PM
I've already posted a few times, become a charter member and met a couple of people so I am not brand new. :)
I live SE of town close to La Vernia.
I am originally from Europe (hence the user name) but have been in Texas for a long time -graduated from SWT in fact back when it still was SWT.

I have a had a small reef tank for about a decade (in retrospect I was pretty negligent with that one though ...) and only upgraded this year to a 125 gallon tank - I LOVE it!

The clownfish that I had in that tank are now in the big tank.
My favorite fish are dragonets though.
For ten years I've wanted a mandarin dragonet but have been waiting to get a bigger tank so I have enough pods for them. Now that I have a bigger tank I learned that the dragonets can in fact be fed frozen fare - go figure...

I like to read about them and spent a lot of time on MOFIB learning more about breeding them.

My favorite corals so far are sun corals and chili corals - I guess I just like to target feed stuff! ;)

I enjoy taking good care of my critters - and I have a lot of them (horses, goats, dogs, cats, tortoises, etc.)

I used to work in marketing/proposals but I am now a work-at-home mom (the other part of my user name). I have a 3 year old son and a 1 year old daughter. The 3 year old is the reason I now have this wonderful big tank. He finished off my 30g by dumping a whole can of fish food in it (I guess he likes to target feed too) :blushing:

snfkotara
Fri, 9th Oct 2009, 01:05 AM
Welcome neighbor I'm glad to finally find another female that has a saltwater tank out here. And as for pet we have a few also horses, dogs, & well a cow but just for a few months. Not to mention LOTS of fish tanks. I also work from home but my children are in high school and middle school.I have 2 living at home Briana 14 and Taten almost 12 both going on 25.

Pennies2Cents
Fri, 9th Oct 2009, 01:48 AM
Welcome EuroMom! :)

sampsonndelila
Fri, 9th Oct 2009, 10:00 AM
Where in Europe? I was born in Germany near Frankfurt.

Europhyllia
Fri, 9th Oct 2009, 10:16 AM
I grew up near Nuernberg :)

lakers10
Fri, 9th Oct 2009, 10:19 AM
i was also born in germany

in hanau...

sampsonndelila
Fri, 9th Oct 2009, 12:34 PM
cool.

Rychek
Fri, 9th Oct 2009, 07:39 PM
Ah, another dragonet fan! You can never have too many of those. :) Sounds like you've just entered a whole new world of marine fish keeping. Welcome!

Europhyllia
Sat, 10th Oct 2009, 12:07 AM
I saw you just rehomed a female spotted. I've been hunting after a female for many weeks before I finally found one.
I love the dragonets. Such interesting fish and so different in their personalities from each other. :)

Europhyllia
Sun, 11th Oct 2009, 09:33 PM
Here are some pictures of my favorites:

Bruce, my big fat male dragonet stealing food from my orange/yellow sun coral:
http://www.mellowyellowsoap.com/brucesun2.jpg

Bob, my female dragonet doing the same with the new solid yellow sun coral I got from Mr Cob (Thanks, I love it by the way):
http://www.mellowyellowsoap.com/bobsun.jpg

One of my Chilis:
http://www.mellowyellowsoap.com/chili.jpg

A hammer coral I just bought for my clowns:
http://www.mellowyellowsoap.com/hammer.jpg

lakers10
Sun, 11th Oct 2009, 09:58 PM
nice hammer coral

love it :bigsmile: