A friend roped me back into fish keeping

Howdy all, my name is Pat and I'm in Olympia. A few months back a friend gave me a 10g tank that she didn't know how to take care of and woke the monster in me. That 10g is now a mineralized soil tank, moderately planted, DIY CO2, DIY light hood- in progress, 52w CFL 6500K, ghost shrimp, RCS, oto's, SAE, assorted snails. I also already have a 20g long waiting in the wings with no real concept yet.

I'm excited to get back into the hobby, I haven't had a tank for a few years and this is my first time keeping shrimp. Looking forward to meeting and possibly working with some of you.

Allow me to be the first to say....

Welcome aboard...

welcome

.oOWELCOME!!

Welcome! There are quite a few of us in the Olympia area. I have a 10gal with RCS as well, though their tank mates are just a pair of BN plecos. Hope you enjoy the forum as much as I do!

Hello and welcome!

anderson_p_r wrote:Howdy all, my name is Pat and I'm in Olympia. A few months back a friend gave me a 10g tank that she didn't know how to take care of and woke the monster in me. That 10g is now a mineralized soil tank, moderately planted, DIY CO2, DIY light hood- in progress, 52w CFL 6500K, ghost shrimp, RCS, oto's, SAE, assorted snails. I also already have a 20g long waiting in the wings with no real concept yet.

I'm excited to get back into the hobby, I haven't had a tank for a few years and this is my first time keeping shrimp. Looking forward to meeting and possibly working with some of you.

UH OH planted tank guy! :]

You'll be happy to know there's a lot of us here southbound :O

Can you tell me what you did to the "mineralized soil"


Anyways, welcome!
If you ever want some free floaters or plantlets hit me up lol

Welcome to WaFishbox! It's nice to see that you're back in the fish keeping hobby once again! You'll have a blast with all the new possibilities of keeping shrimp. I have some Red Cherry Shrimp in all 5 of my tanks, and they just breed and breed and breed and breed... =P

Share some pictures of your tank(s)!

As for the 20 gallon long, you should definitely do a planted tank with it, with more mineralized soil.

Something about Long tanks makes it perfect for plants, IMHO.

I largely followed the directions from a Aquatic Plant Central post made by Aaron Talbot

Works really well. It's best luck I've had with a planted tank, but I've heard of people having odd problems further down the road. We'll see, so far I'm sold on it.

I definitely plan on doing a the 20g as a planted. I have to finish up this 10g first.

I have to wait 7 days to post links, I'll get photos up when that's lifted.

Always glad to see a fellow dirted tank guy

That is a good friend to rope you back into the hobby.

Do you Olympia area folks ever do a get together? A fish keepers pot luck? That could be fun. I know I'm interested in meeting others who enjoy the hobby and picking their brains.

anderson_p_r wrote:Do you Olympia area folks ever do a get together? A fish keepers pot luck? That could be fun. I know I'm interested in meeting others who enjoy the hobby and picking their brains.

There are people around here that carpool up the the GSAS meetings in Seattle, that's the closest thing to a get together as we have. Everyone knows everyone, but I've never seen two other members excluding myself in one area lol. I'm still pretty new myself though.

I know user pbmax is in Olympia, and BillHN are near Olympia (Lacey I believe).

CrazedAce wrote:

anderson_p_r wrote:Do you Olympia area folks ever do a get together? A fish keepers pot luck? That could be fun. I know I'm interested in meeting others who enjoy the hobby and picking their brains.

There are people around here that carpool up the the GSAS meetings in Seattle, that's the closest thing to a get together as we have. Everyone knows everyone, but I've never seen two other members excluding myself in one area lol. I'm still pretty new myself though.

Idk bout meetings (too late at night lol).. but I took a fishboxer / gsas members, and met up with Lj and went to edmonds for a fish adventure last weekend.

BillHN wrote: Idk bout meetings (too late at night lol).. but I took a fishboxer / gsas members, and met up with Lj and went to edmonds for a fish adventure last weekend.

Yes, good times! You left out the awesome feast we had in chinatown!

BTW, anderson_p_r, where did you get that pic of me and why are you using it as your avatar? lol

You know, I found that pic a long time ago and I can't remember where. But when I saw it I knew it was a keeper.

Lol, right after I posted I was like "Oh crap, what if that was a serious pic of himself... I'm going to hell"

Well, I'm relieved now

I dunno, that's a pretty sweet hat.

Here's an unedited version of the picture. lol


Mike Short aka T-Bone
http://www.muffinmanthemovie.com/cast.htm

Exactly how do I know these things?
Simple.

lololol xD

pbmax wrote:I dunno, that's a pretty sweet hat.

It's you, isn't it pbmax

What does it mean if first thing I want to do when I wake up on my B-day is log on to FishBox and share a pic of my tank now my "probationary" period is over?

Lamental Jester wrote:

pbmax wrote:I dunno, that's a pretty sweet hat.

It's you, isn't it pbmax

Nah, I could never pull that off. Plus I burn easy so I tend toward boonie hats, like these guys.

anderson_p_r wrote:What does it mean if first thing I want to do when I wake up on my B-day is log on to FishBox and share a pic of my tank now my "probationary" period is over?

Your tank looks great! Very green and no visible algae; you have some happy plants.

pbmax wrote:
Nah, I could never pull that off. Plus I burn easy so I tend toward boonie hats, like these guys.

anderson_p_r wrote:What does it mean if first thing I want to do when I wake up on my B-day is log on to FishBox and share a pic of my tank now my "probationary" period is over?

It just means you're one of us, abandon all hope