Hello everyone!!

Hi everybody, my name is John. My wife Cindy and I have plunged in to this hobby with both feet. We have 20 gallon and 75 gallon tanks cycling at this time. My wife has always wanted a salt water tank so she started all this but I must admit that I am in to all the technical parts of making this work and fascination with the sea life more than I ever could have imagined! I am on disability due to a terminal brain disease so this has become a REALLY nice relaxing diversion from reality. I am a very friendly guy that probably talks too much. I was told about the site from the saltwater guy at Petland and I am sorry the name escapes me at the moment. I am very excited and proud to be a member of the group!/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/biggrin.gif

 

Sorry, should have mentioned that. We live in Grimes, IA which is basically a suburb of Des Moines.

 

Thanks for the warm welcome! I am looking forward to all that lies ahead. We keep looking at fish getting very excited about what we will choose. We are thinking we will keep the 75 gal a FOWLR and try to make a reef in the 20 gal. She wants to eventually put some seahorses in the 20 so any insight about them is welcome and appreciated.

 

What do you think about the Marineland 29 gallon complete system I was looking at today. It comes with the VHO lighting and everything. Would that be a decent reef? Also on our 75 the first 2 fish are going to be clowns. We want to do a yellow ridgeline clown (Ithink that was the name?) and a percula clown. We were told they should get along but it was suggested to add the percula first, what do others think?

 

I think at this point we are going to keep both of them fowlr tanks and get our sea legs as it were. lol Eventually when we find a 72 gal bowfront or similar reef ready tank we will give corals a shot. Thanks!