Hey all, Its been too long since I have been around.
After Hurricane Gustav devastated my last tank, I had to leave the hobby and have converted my 90g to a brackish tank in the mean time. I want to thank everyone who helped save my corals. I lost track of who got them all so I hope they are doing well. If any of you come across this post, please give me an update.
Anyway, my wife and I hope to be building a house in a couple of years. We have picked two plans and I have to get to work on the wind analysis and pricing to if we are building the bigger one or the smaller one.
While out of the hobby (at least the reef part), I have been trying to keep up with thinks and came up with an idea. In the past couple of decades, I lot of research and discoveries have been made on Northwest Gulf of Mexico Bank Reefs. The banks spread from Galveston to just west of New Orleans. The Flower Garden banks are the most famous and our actual coral reefs. The other banks vary in coral development.
One of the banks closest to New Orleans that features corals is Sonnier Bank and I was thinking of setting my next tank up to model after this. I was able to pull some information regarding the site from the links below:
http://www.gulfbase.org/reef/index.php?map=inset-g
http://www.gulfbase.org/reef/view.php?rid=sonnier
http://www.reef.org/db/reports/geo/TWA/24
http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/onms/park/Parks/?pID=9
I will cover ideas for aquascaping, corals and fish as separate posts. More information will follow shortly...