About Me

I love water. Correction – I love un-frozen water.

Growing up in Tennessee meant being on the lake 8 months of the year and every spring our family would travel to Maui, Hawaii for spring break. I remember our first trip – I was 9 which meant that I couldn’t partake in scuba diving. All I could do was sit on the shore and wait for my father and older brother to come out of the ocean and tell me about what they had seen.

I remember hearing about different colored fishes, eels, which looked like snakes underwater, and even sea turtles. I was left to image what these creatures must have looked like as I couldn’t SCUBA – yet.

When I turned 12, that was my year. My year to get PADI certified and to see this underwater world that my brother and dad talked about. I sat through the 30 minute “intro” session and then I walked out onto the beach, into the ocean, swam out about 30 yards and then descended to behold the new landscape of ocean reefs. My addiction to the ocean had started.

Next up: salt water aquarium. My first tank was 75 galloon tank that sat in my bedroom.  In keeping this tank, I learned about nitrogen cycles, what fish played well with other fish and most important of all, what worked and didn’t work in regards to keeping a saltwater tank.

Fast forward 20 years and now I have a 90G tank that sports all kind of equipment that was virtually unheard of back then. And, I have corals – again something not commonly found in tanks in the late 80’s as no one knew about the lighting requirements of these animals and how to care for them.

The addiction continues and through this blog, I intend to provide a place to document what’s worked for me and what hasn’t as well as to bring timely information to readers.