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Hi my name’s David and I’m a 16 year old that’s in love with this hobby I’ve liked nature and the ocean in specific since I can remember coming home from school and going on the family computer to just watch and learn about are planet going to the beach every week to swim I would see some colorful fish, inverts, macro algae, and corals at first I decided I wanted a fish tank when I was 14 amazed by the fresh water scapes I would see and fish but after 2 months research my sister moved back in and with her she brought her salt water tank the thing that really blew me away was the canary blenny she had I still can’t forget when I first saw the fish I was amazed by how colorful it was bright yellow brighter then a highlighter that’s when my 5 month research began at first I wanted a mantis shrimp learned everything about them but I went to the fish store for the first time and got kidnapped by the wonderful world of corals asked the shop owner ever question I could think of that make me cringe at the thought of my dumb questions as of now but 4 months later I was confident in my knowledge and started looking for a tank ended up finding a 35 gallon cube the exact one my sister had and had to have it so I forced my mom and my sister to drive me to the high desert to get that tank looking back at now it was a pretty dumb thing to do but I don’t regret it at all after that I had the tank sitting in my room forever because once I had it I was nervous I was gonna mess up so what did I do 3 more months of research and finally with my sister pushing me to just fill it with water I did it cycled it for 2 and a half months just to safe some how evaded the ugly stage and got my first living being a cleaner shrimp fed him a cube a day letting him live a life of a kind before I introduced 2 Bangai cardinals and another cleaner shrimp 2 weeks later I was loving my tank but it was missing things so went to my list I had bought a long nose hawk and my first coral a green acro on the $20 rack took them home and both did great over time added more coral a six line wrasse and a bunch of clean up crew the acro was doing great incrusting and everything I tried adding other fish but my hawk either bullied them to death or straight up ate them also had to get rid of one bangai both males eventually tank hit 7 month mark everybody was doing great my hawk surprisingly aloud two more fish a lawnmower blenny and a pink spotted goby but a month later calamity struck little cousins were over and poured nail polish in my tank 4 acro colonies, 2 acro frags, 1 touch later the tank was stable again but again calamity struck tank started leaking a week later had a 60 gallon I had been putting off setting up and it came in handy used 2
Drawers we had laying around in the living room and got to work starting at 10:30 ending at 2:00 it was done my soul had been saved lost another torch and 2 acro frags but I’ve never been good with torch’s and the acros were barely hanging on after the nail polish incident now we’re at present time rescue tanks been up for 3 weeks everyone’s happy with it besides my gobby since his hard work was taken from him added 2 small tangs today 11/15/2023 a convict about 3 inches and a sailfin 2/5 inches there lovey make the tank feel like a reef and eat like pigs at first my hawk did court them around but the have found common ground probably my last purchase for a while since I’m broke but next thing on my list is acros no more children unsupervised in my room btw to prevent another extinction event
Sorry for the bad literature just wrote what’s in my head if you actually read that congratulations it’s finally over
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Drawers we had laying around in the living room and got to work starting at 10:30 ending at 2:00 it was done my soul had been saved lost another torch and 2 acro frags but I’ve never been good with torch’s and the acros were barely hanging on after the nail polish incident now we’re at present time rescue tanks been up for 3 weeks everyone’s happy with it besides my gobby since his hard work was taken from him added 2 small tangs today 11/15/2023 a convict about 3 inches and a sailfin 2/5 inches there lovey make the tank feel like a reef and eat like pigs at first my hawk did court them around but the have found common ground probably my last purchase for a while since I’m broke but next thing on my list is acros no more children unsupervised in my room btw to prevent another extinction event
Sorry for the bad literature just wrote what’s in my head if you actually read that congratulations it’s finally over
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jk keep up the good work dude. Practice makes perfect. I’ve made a bunch of mistakes in this hobby but this forum is a pretty tight community of cool people who like to help out. 
