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njtiger24 aquariums

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Hello!
My name is Joshua, I was born in Brooklyn, NY near Brighton Beach, and moved to NJ when I was 14. But even in the concrete jungle, I would make my way to Coney Island and Brighton Beach, don my mask and snorkel and watch/catch hermit crabs, catch/eat blue claws (probably not the cleanest source) and spend my summers wandering around upstate NY, the Delaware water gap, and PA. We moved to Atlantic Highlands literally because my Dad saw a striper article in a fishing mag mentioning Sandy Hook. It was great, Monmouth county really showed me why they call NJ the garden state, and except for a bit of a culture shock for 14 yo me in a new High School, I loved it. I had the woods, a clean source of blue claws, and plenty of space to wander...

I always loved animals in general, I have a degree in Biology from NJIT/RUTGERS, and I work for an environmental/chemical engineering firm doing clean-ups via the SRP (Site Remediation Program) via the EPA & NJDEP. Needless to say, work is
a-plenty in NJ...

I have had ferrets, dogs, cats, birds, turtles, and of course, a fish tank. I always loved SW tanks, and seeing Amano's planted tanks really flipped my lid; but they seemed to much to get into, out of my reach, both monetarily and time wise. But, now, out of school and working, the tides have changed, no pun intended....

About 3 months ago, I lucked out even further, as someone whose visa had run up was selling his 40 gallon tank on Ebay, and he happened to be from NJ... and I have a great old friend who has been mentoring me through the first few months of "learning on the job".

I have a few colonies of 6/7 different types of palys/zoas, Whamming Watermelons, Nuclear Green Paly's and 5 or 6 other types with weird funny names, I have some corals I don't the name of (yet...), a clownfish pair, 1 damselfish, a peppermint shrimp, a watcher goby and his buddy, nausicans or whatever the white walker version of a snail is called lol, and a couple large snail, a brittle starfish, hermit crabs, a red shrimp isopods, a sea cucumber and maybe by next week I'll have some other creature I had no idea lived in my tank.

I could go on forever, but I'm leaving home from work now, when I get there I suppose I'll continue in a tale of my tank.

I look forward to being part of a like-minded community!

welcome man
 
Hey everyone I’ve been into keeping fresh water fish for about 5 years and just recently about 6 months ago started keeping salt water! I love everything about this hobby and am ready to learn and share more with all you guys!!! I am also a navy veteran born and raised in north east Nj!!! Married w 2 dogs and a cat!!
 

kschweer

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Hey everyone I’ve been into keeping fresh water fish for about 5 years and just recently about 6 months ago started keeping salt water! I love everything about this hobby and am ready to learn and share more with all you guys!!! I am also a navy veteran born and raised in north east Nj!!! Married w 2 dogs and a cat!!
Welcome!
 
Hello All,

I started with a 26 gallon fresh water tank about 4 years ago. After about 2 years with that, I was moving, so I decided to give my fish away to a family member, and sell that tank. I planned to upgrade to salt water.

After settling into my new place 2 years ago, I bought a Red Sea Max C-250 65 gallon tank.

That brings us to present time...and time to move again...

I will likely be moving towards the end of November, and I might move my currently running system, or I a thinking maybe upgrade (slightly) to a new Red Sea Max E 260 with sump and Apex Neptune.

Thanks for having me here.
 
I am new to this club as I moved here with my family from Pittsburgh a couple of years back. I have kept my tank going but just recently really got back into it. I am an Environmental Scientist by Trade and have been doing Saltwater since the best thing was an under gravel filter. My tank is currently a 90 gallon lit by LEDs. No more Halides or Chillers. Lets just say moving a reef tank from 6 hours away is no fun.

My current system runs a Beckett Injected skimmer, DYI Kalk Reactor, 40 gallon breeder tank as a sump, a 10 gallon refugium, All equipment us run off of Sequence Dart pump. Corals are being raised from frags. I believe, we have no need to take these awesome creatures from the oceans anymore. Bulb Anemone that looks like it wants to split. Several Monti's, Xenia, and a beautiful small chalice.

If there is one thing I hate about this hobby it is dinoflagellates and bubble algae.
 
I am new to this club as I moved here with my family from Pittsburgh a couple of years back. I have kept my tank going but just recently really got back into it. I am an Environmental Scientist by Trade and have been doing Saltwater since the best thing was an under gravel filter. My tank is currently a 90 gallon lit by LEDs. No more Halides or Chillers. Lets just say moving a reef tank from 6 hours away is no fun.

My current system runs a Beckett Injected skimmer, DYI Kalk Reactor, 40 gallon breeder tank as a sump, a 10 gallon refugium, All equipment us run off of Sequence Dart pump. Corals are being raised from frags. I believe, we have no need to take these awesome creatures from the oceans anymore. Bulb Anemone that looks like it wants to split. Several Monti's, Xenia, and a beautiful small chalice.

If there is one thing I hate about this hobby it is dinoflagellates and bubble algae.

Welcome! I hate bubble algae as well, but been fortunate to not deal with Dinos. Same goes for aiptasia *knock on wood*


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kschweer

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I am new to this club as I moved here with my family from Pittsburgh a couple of years back. I have kept my tank going but just recently really got back into it. I am an Environmental Scientist by Trade and have been doing Saltwater since the best thing was an under gravel filter. My tank is currently a 90 gallon lit by LEDs. No more Halides or Chillers. Lets just say moving a reef tank from 6 hours away is no fun.

My current system runs a Beckett Injected skimmer, DYI Kalk Reactor, 40 gallon breeder tank as a sump, a 10 gallon refugium, All equipment us run off of Sequence Dart pump. Corals are being raised from frags. I believe, we have no need to take these awesome creatures from the oceans anymore. Bulb Anemone that looks like it wants to split. Several Monti's, Xenia, and a beautiful small chalice.

If there is one thing I hate about this hobby it is dinoflagellates and bubble algae.
Welcome to the club!!
 

njtiger24 aquariums

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Welcome man. I'm fighting bubble algae now I seem to have it under control but will know better this weekend (when I am able to do a water change and can pull out the small remaining spots that I missed last week)
 

MadReefer

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Welcome, AJ Merrifield, NJ Stars and Aquaengineer you have found a fantastic club with friendly, informative and helpful people.
 
Hello everyone!

New to jersey, fairly new to reef keeping but come from a long background of having an aquarium at home. My mom and dad loves African cichlids growing up in Minnesota, I worked at petco in college and kept a pico reef of about 3 gals in Iowa and I stopped for a long time. Just recently moved to New Jersey and started back up another pico, this time a little smaller about 2 gals.

Currently there are some mushroom corals, zoas, leather toadstool, 3 red and 2 green types of macro algae.

I would love to meet up with fellow reef and pico/nano reef enthusiasts sometime, maybe swap some info on suggestions and such! Currently wondering what else to put in next. Sticking to softies for a while then maybe some small livestock like a single porcelain crab or sexy anemone shrimp. Maybe a dwarf goby, not sure yet.. So suggestions welcome! And please let me know if you have a coral frags that you think would be lovely in this little bonsai of a reef! I would be honored to share your coral and be able to feature it in the lovely marvel that is this cute little system.

A little about me, I went to school for music, bachelor of arts with a focus on voice, so I sang quite a bit classically in college. I am a huge advocate for foraging for edible and medicinal mushrooms anywhere from a gourmet dinner to a cup of hot tea that can fight off colds and flus. I worked at an organic mushroom farm after college and currently am in New Jersey because of my lovely spouse who I met traveling shortly after my intership on the mushroom farm. She is so important to me because she has brought a Lot of my dreams into reality and now thanks to her suggesting me the ad, I work at a company out of Bound Brooke, called Aquarium Service Professionals and install, tear down, and maintain custom aquarium tanks and ponds! I thought in college that cleaning fish tanks would be such a sweet gig and sure enough the love of my life found me the ad and said she always knew I wanted to do that so here I am now! Lol

Very happy to be back into the salt water, cheers all fellow pico tank enthusists, fellow aquarium keepers and fans of squishy invertebrates. Feels good to be back apart of a community that likes to support other people's shared passions for keeping reefs :)
 

kschweer

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Hello everyone!

New to jersey, fairly new to reef keeping but come from a long background of having an aquarium at home. My mom and dad loves African cichlids growing up in Minnesota, I worked at petco in college and kept a pico reef of about 3 gals in Iowa and I stopped for a long time. Just recently moved to New Jersey and started back up another pico, this time a little smaller about 2 gals.

Currently there are some mushroom corals, zoas, leather toadstool, 3 red and 2 green types of macro algae.

I would love to meet up with fellow reef and pico/nano reef enthusiasts sometime, maybe swap some info on suggestions and such! Currently wondering what else to put in next. Sticking to softies for a while then maybe some small livestock like a single porcelain crab or sexy anemone shrimp. Maybe a dwarf goby, not sure yet.. So suggestions welcome! And please let me know if you have a coral frags that you think would be lovely in this little bonsai of a reef! I would be honored to share your coral and be able to feature it in the lovely marvel that is this cute little system.

A little about me, I went to school for music, bachelor of arts with a focus on voice, so I sang quite a bit classically in college. I am a huge advocate for foraging for edible and medicinal mushrooms anywhere from a gourmet dinner to a cup of hot tea that can fight off colds and flus. I worked at an organic mushroom farm after college and currently am in New Jersey because of my lovely spouse who I met traveling shortly after my intership on the mushroom farm. She is so important to me because she has brought a Lot of my dreams into reality and now thanks to her suggesting me the ad, I work at a company out of Bound Brooke, called Aquarium Service Professionals and install, tear down, and maintain custom aquarium tanks and ponds! I thought in college that cleaning fish tanks would be such a sweet gig and sure enough the love of my life found me the ad and said she always knew I wanted to do that so here I am now! Lol

Very happy to be back into the salt water, cheers all fellow pico tank enthusists, fellow aquarium keepers and fans of squishy invertebrates. Feels good to be back apart of a community that likes to support other people's shared passions for keeping reefs :)
Welcome!!!
 
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