Been here awhile, decided to say Hi.

[99taws6]

Hello everyone,


My name is George and I have been on the site for a few weeks now, so I figured I would take the time to introduce myself and my tank.

Well I am 32yrs old and a single parent of 2 girls.. Elizabeth 11 and Skyler 7. I am in the Army and have been for almost 15yrs. Long story how I got the kids, but it was fight well worth the expense. I am a mechanic on wheeled vehicles in the Army. I am currently stationed at Ft Hood and will be there for a few yrs atleast. I have a few hobbies, but dragracing my motorcycle and reef keeping seem to be the most time consuming.

I currently have a 85 gallon freshwater tank that belongs to my girls and is full of breeding mollies, guppies and has a few algea eaters and a large pleco. They feed it, all I do is add water. ;)


I currently have a 180gallon Oceanic "Brick" tank. The tank is Reef Ready with dual off the corner overflow boxes. The tank glass is 3/4" thick and requires no center brace at top. All 4 holes in the boxes are working as drains going to my custom 50gallon sump w/refugium. The sump feeds a Barracuda (wow this pump has a lot of power) which drives my Aqua C Skimmer as well as returns the water to the tank via 4 1" PVC over the back returns. I am currently building the canopy (You can tell I'm not a woodworker) which right now houses 2 250W MH's and a 50/50 T5 light set that sits in the middle.

The tank has 150lbs of fine sugar live sand and about 150lbs of live rock. I have various soft corals and some hard corals (zoos, mushrooms, clams, brain, candycane, hammer, frogspawn) and I have a few fish (Tomini Tang, Dsjarden Sailfin Tang, Powder Blue Tang, 2 Royal Gramma, Fairy Wrasse, Pygmy Dwarf Angel, Yellow Gobie, Lawnmower Blennie, True Perc Clown, 2 chromie damsels and 2 dalmation mollies (yes mollies.. They were my first saltwater fish and I have moved them from tank to tank.) and I have 2 anemones a medium sized 8" green carpet and a LTA anemone. The tank has many inverts as well.. I have 3 peppermint shrimp, 2 cleaners, a pistol shrimp, an emerald crab, a fighting conch, a few turbo snails and many atraea snails and blue leg hermits...

I will post pictures when I get a chance so tha the progress can be seen as my woodworking skills come to play.. lol...

[sharkboy]

Welcome! Look forward to seeing some pictures...

[tony]

welcome to maast george! cant wait to see some pics

[brewercm]

Welcome aboard George. Looking forward to the pics myself, those bricks are nice (but heavy) tanks.

[RayAllen]

Awesome setups, and welcome!

[engwife36]

George!!!

It's about time.......................and don't post pics with that camera phone...lol

[99taws6]

Thanks for all the welcomes.... Brad, you know anyone with a good older camera that they have that is extra now?