Hello everyone,
I just wanted to take a second and introduce myself. My name is Damon Morris, and (among other things) I guess I'm a bit of a fish enthusiast.
I've been keeping fresh water tanks for at least 15 years now. Mostly cichlid tanks. Maybe exclusively cichlid tanks, now that I think of it. Oscars have been a long time favorite.
Well, recently an old oscar of mine died and it freed up my 55 gallon acrylic tank, so I decided to venture into the saltier side of life.
Right now, I have 2 tanks up and running:
1. 29gallon 'riverbed' tank, which has 3 convict cichlids and a large pleco. I used to breed convicts, and these are 3 from probably 3 different generations. One, I believe, is the mother of the others, but honestly it's hard to tell these days.
2. My 55 gallon tank has had salt water in it for about 4 days, live sand for about 2 and just last night I put in about 35 lbs of (semi) live rock. I also got hold of a prizm pro deluxe skimmer, which I fiddled with for about 3 hours last night with little/no luck. I contacted Red Sea and talked to a real nice lady named 'Pinky' who gave me some good advice, so I'm going to give it a go again this afternoon.
That's about it. Be prepared for a question or two along my way and I look forward to chatting with you all.
Damon
I just wanted to take a second and introduce myself. My name is Damon Morris, and (among other things) I guess I'm a bit of a fish enthusiast.
I've been keeping fresh water tanks for at least 15 years now. Mostly cichlid tanks. Maybe exclusively cichlid tanks, now that I think of it. Oscars have been a long time favorite.
Well, recently an old oscar of mine died and it freed up my 55 gallon acrylic tank, so I decided to venture into the saltier side of life.
Right now, I have 2 tanks up and running:
1. 29gallon 'riverbed' tank, which has 3 convict cichlids and a large pleco. I used to breed convicts, and these are 3 from probably 3 different generations. One, I believe, is the mother of the others, but honestly it's hard to tell these days.
2. My 55 gallon tank has had salt water in it for about 4 days, live sand for about 2 and just last night I put in about 35 lbs of (semi) live rock. I also got hold of a prizm pro deluxe skimmer, which I fiddled with for about 3 hours last night with little/no luck. I contacted Red Sea and talked to a real nice lady named 'Pinky' who gave me some good advice, so I'm going to give it a go again this afternoon.
That's about it. Be prepared for a question or two along my way and I look forward to chatting with you all.
Damon
