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Postby reeffish1073 » Jan 9, 2007 10:06 pm

hey all

just wanted to take a miniute to intoduce myself. my name is john, NSS-58065, member of the flittermouse grotto. ive been caving off and on for about 17 years. ( wow didnt realize its been that long!) ive caved in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tenessee, West Virginia, Virginia, and North carolina. Prior member of the tidewater grotto Va. Beach Va. Im hoping on making new friends within my grotto and other grotto's to cave with and see alot more sights.

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Postby adleedy » Jan 9, 2007 10:12 pm

hi :grin:
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Postby Scott McCrea » Jan 9, 2007 11:04 pm

Welcome to Cavechat, John!
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Postby Cheryl Jones » Jan 9, 2007 11:38 pm

Hi John! Are you a scuba diver, by chance? :snorkling:

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diving

Postby reeffish1073 » Jan 9, 2007 11:54 pm

no not yet. plan on getting my cert this spring. i have a fascination with reef fish. I have a 210 gallon reef tank in my dining room wall! i know some people think these are bad for our reefs, but i promote captive breeding and propigation of fish and corals. just my side hoby!

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Re: diving

Postby Cheryl Jones » Jan 10, 2007 12:26 am

reeffish1073 wrote:no not yet. plan on getting my cert this spring. i have a fascination with reef fish. I have a 210 gallon reef tank in my dining room wall! i know some people think these are bad for our reefs, but i promote captive breeding and propigation of fish and corals. just my side hoby!

john

Wow! Nice aquarium. Then you'll love diving (in clear water on dynamic reefs). I'm glad you're into captive breeding.....too many fish populations, especially of unusual fish, are threatened and dwindling because of collectors and others who pay well. yada yada. I know, I'm preaching to the choir. :waving:

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welcome

Postby tagkaver » Jan 10, 2007 9:54 am

welcome aboard John. :waving:
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Postby Wayne Harrison » Jan 10, 2007 10:41 am

Welcome to the forum, John.

I used to have salt water tanks years ago but gave up when my $4.95 hermit crab ATE my $69.99 anemone. Keeping a salt water tank is a challenge.

Making a habitrail for your fish is even harder:

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Postby reeffish1073 » Jan 10, 2007 10:36 pm

thanks for the hospitality guys and gals. some of you i know, and some ive met arlready. but its nice to make more aquaintances, mabe ill have the opertunity to cave with some of you. and by the way Wayne, is that the habitrail in the pic? if so thats pretty impressive!

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Postby Cheryl Jones » Jan 11, 2007 12:30 am

Making a habitrail for your fish is even harder:


Where is that? It's pretty cool -- never even heard of anything like it. Do the fish really swim through it from tank to tank? Incredible! (Why does it remind me of Finding Nemo? :wink:)

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Postby Evan G » Jan 11, 2007 12:53 am

Here is a link to the Habitrail that Wayne posted a pic of:

http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Home-Aquarium-20061031

Of course you can always go with this kind of tank:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_fish


Welcome to the board John :-) !!!
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