Extreme Makeover 4 years later, Part 1

[wady]

Mucho your tank has always been my No.1 favorite set-up I have ever seen!

It still is to this day. I've lost count how many times I've looked back at your photos from your TOTM win over the years. They still make me go WOW now! I got my first computer around about the same time I set-up my first ever tank. I knew next to nothing about this hobby at the time as my first tank was a gift. This web-site and your tank were some of the very first things I came across when doing my first steps in research. I can't describe just how big an impact, impression and influence seeing and reading about your tank had on me at that time. I really didn't understand what it was I was looking at at that time, let alone what it would take to create something like it myself but beautiful and impressive though it was! So much so in fact, I skipped over the usual practice of starting out with fresh water fish, (against all advice at the time) and went straight for marine/saltwater with a determined goal of someday having something as incredible and stunning as your tank. My journey in this wonderful hobby hasn't had too many bumps thankfully but it's had many many highs. I also still have that obsession with zoos.

It is a shame in some small way that some things in life that are so beautiful can't just stay that way all the time, forever perfect. However if they did, would they then seem so beautiful? Better still to grow and blossom into something that inevitably will be far greater in the end. I'm SURE your new creation MUCHO will too be even more awesome and inspiring than the last. I know I won't be the only one here who can't wait to see the first photos!!!

Good luck with your new set-up mate and thank you once again for having shared your tank, experience and friendly advise over the years.

Respect!

aidyb