A new guy in Missoula

[DevonM]

Hello All,

My girlfriend and I were up in Kalispell this weekend and met "Sarmo" and his wife at Bob's place. I'm still not sure what Sarmo stands for but thanks for recommending this reef forum!

I really enjoy everyone's pictures. I am also glad to hear that there will be another store in the area with new interest in the reef hobby. My girlfriend and I spend a lot of our time over in Spokane bugging Steve and Kevin so another store might give them a break, lol.

We currently take care of a 280 gallon tank with a mix of creatures which include a few anemones, clowns, chromis, tangs, wrasses, blennies, stonies, mushrooms, shrimp, crabs, buttons, zoos and a zebra eel. Vague I know but we like a little bit of everything. We eventually would like to have a tank like Kevin Pockell's big stony tank @ Aquatic Dreams... Some day.

Anyway, hello from Missoula.

Devon & Shelby

[Ramer]

Welcome aboard, Now you will have to come to a meeting

[DevonM]

Not a problem.

[charlie]

Hello All,

My girlfriend and I were up in Kalispell this weekend and met "Sarmo" and his wife at Bob's place. I'm still not sure what Sarmo stands for but thanks for recommending this reef forum!

I really enjoy everyone's pictures. I am also glad to hear that there will be another store in the area with new interest in the reef hobby. My girlfriend and I spend a lot of our time over in Spokane bugging Steve and Kevin so another store might give them a break, lol.

We currently take care of a 280 gallon tank with a mix of creatures which include a few anemones, clowns, chromis, tangs, wrasses, blennies, stonies, mushrooms, shrimp, crabs, buttons, zoos and a zebra eel. Vague I know but we like a little bit of everything. We eventually would like to have a tank like Kevin Pockell's big stony tank @ Aquatic Dreams... Some day.

Anyway, hello from Missoula.

Devon & Shelby

Kevin told me he had someone come in from Missoula on Saturday, sorry I missed ya!!!!!
You would be more than welcome to come up and bug us to. You aren't the only one who wonders what Sarmo means, but I have known Rob for close to 4 years now, and he has one heck of an sps tank too.

Check out this thread:
Couple of pics of Mr. Pockells 600 gallon display
for some pics of Kevin's 600 gallon display.

Oh...................

[cdearing]

Devon,
You and your girlfriend will definitely have to come to a meeting here in NW MT. We have a great club with lots of fun people and growing all the time. We are all glad to have another store to patronize too. It's good to have a little competition. Looking forward to seeing pix of your tank!
Cyn

[cdearing]

OK, nevermind about the pix. I checked them out on your profile. Cool stuff. How's about a full tank shot?

[charlie]

OK, nevermind about the pix. I checked them out on your profile. Cool stuff. How's about a full tank shot?

Yes, very nice!!!

[Sarmo]

glad to see you found Reefland. there are a lot of great people on here that can help with any question you might have. if you want SPS help check out Charlie's tank and pick his brain. he can help a lot. he's almost always signed on to this board.
your tank looks great. nice mushrooms.
if you can come back this saturday, come check out the meeting. there will be a ton of BS if nothing else. everyone up here is really friendly.

it was nice talking to you on Sunday and welcome to Reefland.

[Sarmo]

PS- sarmo was my kennel name way back before i had a salt water tank. it stands for Slim and Resa's Monster Offspring.........

[DevonM]

I was reading though a thread and saw that the next meeting was @ 5 this Saturday, correct? Should be a nice day for a drive up the valley.

[charlie]

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want, I can PM you my phone number, and if you have any trouble, finding the place, give me a jingle. Unless you would want to do a little pregame before the meeting. We may not be able to bring any beers, so we might have to pregame or postgame, depending upon your preference.

[DevonM]

Sounds great, I will be be in Bigfork Friday so I am pretty much open for the meeting and pre/post game on Saturday. I suppose you guys hit up Scotty's?

[charlie]

Sounds great, I will be be in Bigfork Friday so I am pretty much open for the meeting and pre/post game on Saturday. I suppose you guys hit up Scotty's?

Not normally........................ You wouldn't want to come up and see the stuff in the north end of the valley, would you? I think Rob is gonna come up Saturday and give me a hand with some stuff, you would be more than welcome to come up.
Scotty's does make a great burger too!!!!!
If you are gonna make a weekend of it, you might as well stop by and see Rob's 500 while you are at it.

[DevonM]

I will be in town so sure, and if you need an extra hand count me in.

[charlie]

I'll get in touch with Rob tonight to see what is goin on.

[SDW]

Hey Devon and Shelby,
welcome to the club. I am new here as well, but good to see a fellow reefer from Missoula. Was starting to think I was the only one in the "Valley" Nice pics of your tank on the profile.
stacy

[DevonM]

Hello Stacy

Thanks for the photo comments! There are a few of us here in Missoula with tanks. I keep in touch with one guy who has 5-6 tanks up together (900+ gal.) and is really interested in propagating corals. The other guy has a bamboo shark and a blue dot ray that he is very happy with. I've heard of a few other large systems up the Rattlesnake and down the Bitterroot but have yet to see them.

I started out with some puffers, eels, triggers, and other creeps then eventually my girlfriend and I found a soft spot for anemones and more peaceful fish. Now I have a mix in my tank but can't wait to build a few other tanks (with more accessible filtration).

At the moment I am fed up with inconsistent tests. I have started to incorporate electronic tests from American Marine (Calcium & ORP) and Hanna (pH) in hopes of more consistent/accurate readings.

I am also big on automation which has me thinking about the addition of a Calcium reactor....

Anyway, enough about me. What's your story?

Devon

[charlie]

Devon, I will be down at the new store giving John a helping hand most of Saturday.

[SDW]

I am still pretty new comparatively to you guys. I have a 90 gallon tank which for the most part has been FOWLR, but I have wanted a reef tank. I am slowly adding some coral frags. My wife is not as thrilled with the tank as I am, although she is supportive, she doesn't like the financial aspect. I have some fun fish though. I would love to see your tank some time maybe in the future.