Thank you for welcome, look forward to meeting some of you.

As I said, I am not sure which way I want to go yet. Once I take the tour of the sponsors and pet stores, I will get a better feel of what I want to do. Some thoughts are larger softy tank, something in the eight foot 200-300 gallon range, with plenty of room for fish or A bonzai type nano or 120 mixed again.

I was keeping two tanks prior to selling them off due to the move.

Tank 1: An 11 year old 120 gallon mixed reef. This tank I had probably for 15 years, one of the first AGA overflow tanks I was able to buy at a factory sale in Milwaukee, WI. Started its life as an Angelfish tank. Turned it into a reef tank after seeing a setup in a pet store in Janesville, WI and caught the bug. Bought a book at the store on saltwater aquariums and converted it within two weeks. Did everything wrong by todays standard but had a lot of success. Used tap water and mixed the salt right before adding it the tank. Had an under sand/gravel filter as well as the wet/dry filter. Super deep sand bed.The first skimmer was a modded sea clone, modded meaning that I added an air pump and stone. My first "coral" was a green carpet anemone, was sold to me as a leather, learned what it really was when I was talking to LFS owner after he asked me why I bought two blue devil damsels every week. I told that my leather coral eats them and it is the only thing it will eat. I sold that anemone with the tank. Some specs on it: 660 watts of VHO lighting, 40 gallon sump with a diy skimmer, Mag 18 return pump, a bunch of maxi jets for circulation. The anemone hosted 8 year old mated pair of percula clowns that were tank raised. I had various success with hard and soft coral, most had been in the tank for years.

I then bought a BioCube 29 as a grow out tank for juvi percs that usually ended in the back chambers. I got tired of fishing them out, so I added sand and live rock and made a zoanthid only tank with firefish as the only other livestock, with the exception of clean up crews.

I am sorry, I cannot find the CD that the pictures are on. We are missing boxes of stuff. Amazing what disappears during a move.

I thought I would be completely out of the hobby never to look back. I was googling different places in SA and came accross the MAAST web site and started to browse around. Seemed like a good bunch of people and there are some really nice looking reefs out there. My wife was looking over my shoulder and she suggested we get a reef going, I guess she missed the tanks as much as I do.

Oh, I am suppose to ask any good family/mom and pop resturants for breakfast in the city? Does not matter where as we like to get around and explore.

Tom