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Juano908

Juano908

Hi, I’m Juan, Dominican, married to a wonderful Peruvian lady. We have a 12 years old son who loves skateboarding, playing soccer and going surf fishing with daddy….. I’ve been living in NJ for over 17 years but used to live in Puerto Rico for many years too. I’m a QA Lab Technician, new to the hobby (saltwater aquarium), I’ve had freshwater aquarium before but a reef aquarium was always my dream, I remember my very first fish tank when I was about 9 years old…… my father made me out of an old car battery…….yes a CAR BATTERY, he removed the top and all the inner divisions, cut one of the bigger side of the battery and attached a piece of glass, filled the bottom with concrete to make it flat and painted silver color, my first fishes were guppies and man they looked beautiful on that fish tank………that fish tank meant a lot to me and that was the begging of keeping fishes for me. My last freshwater tank was a planted Discus tank, I was breeding Discus for 3 years. I registered to NJRC on Oct. 2012 when I started my first saltwater tank (29 gal. FOWLR tank). I’ve never posted before but I’ve been reading and learned a lot from all of you guys so I feel a bit more confident about saltwater aquarium now. I upgraded to 75 gallon tank which is been running for 3 months already without any failure. My tank setting at the moment is as fallow but eventually I will upgrade litter by litter (due to my wife been 6 month pregnant and we have to start getting ready for the coming baby) 75 gallon, about 85 lbs. live rocks, 80 lbs. aragonite special grade sand, 4 bulbs T5, hob overflow box (800 gph), DIY 20 gallon long sump/refugium with LR & cheato (thanks a lot Horseplay for the Cheato & the GSP), 2 x 800 gph circulation pump, hob Sea clone 150 protein skimmer ( I know, I know but it was a gift.) ATO that I did my self (I enjoy doing DIY projects) no reactors and not controllers yet.

My live stock so far are:
Fish: a pair of black/caramel clown fish, one green chromis.
Corals: GSP, Aussy Duncan, hammer, red cap, orange cap, blue cap, Kenya tree, pulsing xenia, brown mushroom, candy cane.

I want to thank: Jun, Joe and Paul for the frags they’ve gave me, this are so far the first three wonderful people I’ve had the pleasure to meet from NJRC and I look forward meeting more of you fellows reefers.
 
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BuGG

Hey Juan, welcome to NJRC!! My family went on vacation to DR 2 years in a row now. Last year we went to Santo Domingo and earlier this year we went to Punta Cana. Very beautiful country. Also, congrats and good luck to you and your family on your new baby!
 
Ls2Goat

Ls2Goat

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I guess this is more of a reintroduction! I registered just over 2 years ago and simply forgot about this site until a friend brought it up to me in my search for a jawbreaker.

I'm Dustin and I'm 25, I've been in the aquarium hobby since I was 6 and have been in saltwater for almost 3 years now.
I live in a third floor apartment in Hamilton so I am limited to no more than 5 gallons of standing water which put me in awkward position and forcing me to sink or swim with a pico/nano reef. I started with a Biocube 14 which was super successful then tried my hand at a true pico a 2.5g all glass aquarium which was upgraded to my current Nuvo 8 system. The 2.5 then became a QT tank that has now evolved into a mini frag tank.

Besides aquariums I am into cars, I currently have a 2006 GTO with a LS2(hence the username) and a 2002 Pontiac Trans Am WS6.I've had a 87 Camaro, and 4 other Trans Ams in the past; one of which was a 10 second strip car pushing 610 RWHP. I also enjoy going fishing with friends and family, anything from a basic day at the lake to hitting a party boat and going out for some blues and sea bass.

I'm looking forward to being more active on this site and going to some meets/swaps to meet some of you.

Here is a FTS.
 

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Ls2Goat

Ls2Goat

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downbeach said:
Hey Dustin, welcome aboard. I'm hosting this month's meeting, come on down, it's not too far from Hamilton. Here's the link in case you missed it.

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Thanks for the welcome, I was reading through it an am high debating about trying to make it, I'm meeting Darren this afternoon to pick up a jawbreaker.
I have a beautiful war coral that's probably 4.5-5 inches in diameter I could bring for trade.
 
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Jing_xoxo

Can someone help me out? Ive paid for my membership when I first started, still havent been able to access the rest of the forum, and I am unable to start my build thread because I cant create a new topic. It told me to go to the forum admin.
 
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mnat

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Did you submit the membership app as well? I know a few of us BOD members were at MACNA and it is a manual update which might account for the delay.
 
Classklown90

Classklown90

mnat said:
Did you submit the membership app as well? I know a few of us BOD members were at MACNA and it is a manual update which might account for the delay.
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Yes she is a paid member as reflected by her paypal statement. I believe it was a week or so before macna though.

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mnat

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Thanks for letting us know and sorry for the delay, I just updated her which is something I don't usually do but I think I got it right.
 
ClownChick91

ClownChick91

Hello everyone, my names Meagan and im 22 years old, some people may know me as xavier613s girlfriend, and having a tank prior (29 bio cube). However I got really sick last year and I had to sell my tank and my blacker ice clownfish :( I have decided to get another tank!

This tank will be a 40 breeder, with a homemade stand, a 20 gallon long sump. Today we just finished the drilling of the tank and sump. We also order dry rock and my RO unit....which I don't know how my mom will feel about.uploadfromtaptalk1378156406840.jpg

The stand is perfect, Xavier's dad and him built it. We painted it together and I'm going to make a curtain to cover the opening. Everything is in a process right now but we're getting there! Back to Rutgers tomorrow however this is all I am going to be thinking about!

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Spideybry

Spideybry

ClownChick91 said:
Hello everyone, my names Meagan and im 22 years old, some people may know me as xavier613s girlfriend, and having a tank prior (29 bio cube). However I got really sick last year and I had to sell my tank and my blacker ice clownfish :( I have decided to get another tank!

This tank will be a 40 breeder, with a homemade stand, a 20 gallon long sump. Today we just finished the drilling of the tank and sump. We also order dry rock and my RO unit....which I don't know how my mom will feel about.View attachment 6221

The stand is perfect, Xavier's dad and him built it. We painted it together and I'm going to make a curtain to cover the opening. Everything is in a process right now but we're getting there! Back to Rutgers tomorrow however this is all I am going to be thinking about!

Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk 2
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Where is the drilled picture? And the picture with the newspaper aquascape? lol
 
Sobo's Reef

Sobo's Reef

Hey everyone, new member here, my name is Dan and I'm located in Blackwood SJ. Just figured I'd introduce myself since thats what this thread is all about :) I'm running a 90g RR tank with 2 165w dimmable LED lights. I posted pics in my build thread if anyone wanted to take a look.

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