Toledo/Sylvania?

[kstuart]

How many here are right around Toledo/sylvania? I'm starting a tank after hanging around with some reef "friends" (told them I'd save the reciepes and thank them later) from mansfield and was wondering what kind of local intrest there was

[jenghes]

Sylvania here

[kstuart]

Cool, I've been to both tropicorium and salty critter is there any others worth checking out around?

[psychostieg]

I.m here in Sylvania...Mayberry...above Nautica coffee....

[kstuart]

Centenial and bancroft here, somebody has a tank in wickedford woods appartments off mcord and brint? I see it when ever i drive past at night bright MH blaring out the window

[jenghes]

I have seen it too. I am very close to psycho.

We have a new house back in my neighborhood with a tank. Maybe we can start a Sylvania club.

[jenghes]

kstuart,

are you in Deerpointe?

[kstuart]

Yup!

[jenghes]

Cool, drive by every day. A friend of mine grew up at the grey farm house on Centennial across the street.

We are in Woodstream West, Sylvania Metamora and Mitchaw.

[kstuart]

Sylvania club would be sweet, less driving. My other reefers are in mansfield

[jenghes]

AnnArborBuck is also in sylvania, then I know of two other tanks in my subdivision. Maybe I could convince the one, the other, I need to meet yet.

[kstuart]

is wood stream an new subdiv? we almost built a house in one of the ones down there that butted up to the state line

[jenghes]

newer. We have new homes going up in the back. We have been here 3 years and are in plat 4. Plats 1 & 2 are about 5 years old.

Funny, we were looking seriously in Deerpointe before we bought here.

[kstuart]

Sylvania club would be cool, I have bits and pieces that hopefully in the next week will be assembled into something that will resemble a tank (being erickson's glass doesn't break my tank) I've been hiting the forums looking for live rock

[jenghes]

Mine is 3 years old, but I have been really slow adding corals due to a number of mistakes and problems. It is starting to resemble a reef though.

what size are you throwing together?

[kstuart]

20H unless I can get a deal on something bigger, the 20 is a short test to make sure i can at least grow something.. if i can then a 90 i most likely on its way.

[jenghes]

bigger is easier, your parameters stay better. My first tank, in HS was a 29 gallon fo tank. I'd go for hardy stuff in a 20, to allow for errors. do you have any experience at all? The 20 may be a good starter, but keep a very close eye on all your parameters.

I had it for about a year or so. It fluctuated a lot. When I started again, I was thinking about the 54 corner, but then opted for the 92 corner. I am so glad that I did. It just requires a bit bigger water changes.

Jen

[kstuart]

no exp with reef tanks, but my mansfield buddy got me hooked and he has had tanks for a long time so he's taught me a lot and showed me what hes done wrong in the past . I will agree the 20 wil be tricky and i'd love something around 100 but live rock for the 20 is alot more affordable then LR on a 100. I figure i'll just have to watch the 20, it will have a 10g sump on it though might help a little

[jenghes]

You are lucky to have guidance, I was on my own... thus many oopses. It is looking decent now, but have to figure out the darn noise problem in my sump!

Jen

[kstuart]

i don't know if i would have attempted it without knowing him. He keeps telling me to find someone breaking down a tank but i keep just missing the local ones for sale. Do you mainly do fish only?

[jenghes]

I am trying the reef. I have some shrooms, clams, zoas, birdsnest & hammer. What are you planning, fish only or reef?

[kstuart]

reef, The corals intrest me more then the fish. Do you have a sand bed or bare bottom?

[jenghes]

I have sand. I got TBSW live rock and sand, SSB of about 2-3". They were very nice, but due to some of my mistakes and constantly having to tear down my system to get the Mantis shrimps out, I have lost most of the goodies that came on the rock. Do you plan on BB or sand?

[kstuart]

i have one friend with bb and the other has sand but hewill do bb on the next tank. I'm going with sand though because i figure the 20 will be a short lived tank and hopefully upgraded soon and hopefully the sand will help regulate it a bit

[jenghes]

Personally, I like the look of sand better than bb. It all depends on what you want to do though. I do not plan on any major hard stuff, so I am happy with pretty much what I have.

what type of lighting do you have?

[kstuart]

same here

[kizkid]

We are in Toledo, also.

[dflannagan]

Toledo here. In the Holland-Sylvania / Bancroft area. Looks like a few of us in the area.

[AnnArborBuck]

Hey, just found this thread. I haven't been on RC since about April due to my Job and time constraints. I know of a couple of people in sylvania that have reeftanks. I live on Winding Way which is off of Erie across from Highland Meadows Golf Club.

If anybody needs any xenia, colt, finger leather let me know, I have some I need to get rid of.

[jenghes]

Doug,

Welcome back! Are you going to the swap?

Jen