I think I found Nemo?

First 1 gallon Fish tank 

First Goldfish 

If you follow me Instagram or Facebook you'd probably seen some of my pictures I've posted, sometimes i feel as annoying as those mothers that post pics of their babies everyday! It's been almost a year since I got my first fish tank, if I remember correctly it was a 1 gallon gold fish bowl.  The funny thing is that it wasn't even for me, I had originally bought it for my niece for when she came over. I started out with a couple feeder gold fish and a betta.  A couple weeks had passed and I figured it was time for an upgrade, I stopped by the fish store and purchased a 3 gallon circular pillar with multicolored LED light; yeah I thought it was badass!  I filled the tank with tetras, a small but colorful fish, I wanted a small school of them but the tank was too small.  So here again I'm upgrading to a bigger tank, this time it was a 10 gallon tank.

First 10 Gallon Tank

 I was sure this would be my last upgrade.  I filled the tank with fish and sponge bob decor. It looked good, and I was happy with it...for couple weeks.  I soon started looking at planted tanks.  The live pants gave the aquarium a whole new sense of natural beauty.  This lead me to replace all the decor in the tank with real plants and wood, no fake stuff!  

Fist 10 gallon planted 

My niece's Tank

Couple months had passed and I was learning about the right substrates and additives to maintain healthy fish and plants.  It was at this point where purchased another 10 gallon tank to have a more variety of fish.

First version of my 30 Gallon

Fast forward a couple months and I was growing tired of the size of fish my tank could accommodate, I could only go as big as 2 inches in 10 gallon tank.  So I was craiglist browsing one late night and I stumbled upon a super cheap 30 gallon fish tank with stand, so I jumped the gun and purchased it the next day.  Now I have the tank that I wanted and quickly stock it with bigger fish.  This 30 gallon tank was the peak of my fresh water experience, I had the coolest/weirdest/most colorful fresh water fish on the market not to mention around 15 high end plants, it was everything a fresh water tank could be, unless you went into aquascaping, which is on a whole other level.  

Fully Planted 30 Gallon

So there I lay one night bored after a night of gaming, I'm sitting here browsing netflix and I see this show called Tanked.  The jest of the show is basically this company makes outlandish saltwater fish aquariums.  As I'm watching this so I can see that freshwater fish don't even come close to the vibrant, colorful, bizarre, and just plain coolness of saltwater fish; at that point I needed a saltwater tank!

Custom Base and Hood I made, 75g

Custom Sump Tank 

75g Saltwater

I decided to go for a bigger tank so I bought an old acrylic 75 gallon tank.  I didn't know how much work it would be to start one up!  The tank was an older tank and it needed a lot of work. I would say I put easily 100+ hours into getting the tank up and running.  From start to where I could actually put fish in it was around a month. As of right now my saltwater tank has around 12 fish, 20 hermits, 2 snails, 2 shrimp.

10g Saltwater

Now the full circle has come together and I recently started my 10 gallon nano reef/clown tank.  I'm using the 10 gallon tank I had purchased before.  The thing with saltwater tanks is the smaller they are the more difficult they are to sustain the biological ecosystem.

Live Rock with Soft corals 

I don't know what it is about fish tanks, its probably the feeling of having a slice of paradise in my room, also it gives you a Godlike feeling knowing that they are so dependent on you, I almost feel like Xerxes when I'm feeding them, "I am a generous god." Also I like the challenge, especially when it comes down to saltwater, its not easy getting the right conditions for the ecosystem to thrive.