Q1. How did you hear about Pnwmas?
A1. I frequent Woody's Seahorse Aquarium & Supply and Terry provided a card to me and suggested I check it out and sign up, so here I am!
Q2. How long have you been in the hobby?
A2. I am still a novice, I have had my Red Sea Nano Max now for 1 year 2 months.
Q3. Who inspired you to start up a tank?
A3. I grew up around fresh water aquariums most of my childhood because of my dad. Now, as an adult I decided I wanted that back in my life and my children's life and decided salt water reef was the way I wanted to go after doing research.
Q4. What size aquarium do you have?
A4. I only have 1 aquarium, it is a 20 gallon Red Sea Nano Max
Q5. What livestock do you have?
A5. As for invertebrates, I have Tuxedo Urchin, Fire Shrimp, sand sifting star, and emerald crabs. For Fish I have Pigmy Wrasse, Lawn mower Blenny, Frostbite Clown, Purple Fire Fish, and Pearly Jawfish. For corals I have rainbow rose tip anemone, 2 rock flowers, various zoas, forest fire, green hairy mushrooms, green star polyps (trying to grow on back wall), green torch, Jack O Lantern leptoseris, Vargus Cespitularia.
Q6. What is your Dream Fish?
A6. As of now a Royal Gamma. If I had a larger tank probably a tang.
Q7. What is your dream coral?
A7. Chalice
Q8. Anything else you would like to add?
A8. I am still very new to this (even though I am a year in). I still make so many mistakes but do learn a lot along the way. I look forward to the help and suggestions I can get from this group. I am also very much into automating tanks. Currently my 20 gallon is nearly self sufficient (using mostly Neptune Apex controllers and code). I hope I can also provide insight to anybody else wanting to take up the reef hobby. Thanks for welcoming me to this group.
Happy reefing! See image I attached for what my reef looks like. You can also see part of my cabinet I built for my apex stuff.