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Author:  ap_red97ek [ February 07, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

Just curious what some of you guys are into and whats hobbies you may have outside the automotive scene. I guess the fitness thread made ne think of these since I consider it a hobby I guess.

A new hobby of mine that I recently got into was aquariums, most specifically, reef keeping. I also found it interesting but never knew enough about it. A friend of my got into and was willing to help me start and educate me on the basics.

Being that I live in an apartment I chose to go with a nano reef to start with which is actually more difficult and not recommend for beginners since just a little issue will result in big problems in such a small volume of water. But I figured what better way to start then with a challenge and I figured if I could keep a small system stable I would not have as hard of a time with a big system later.

I started with a 6gal tank taling things slow and adding a little at a time. I currently am keeping soft corals and a few LPS (Large stoney polyp) corals. I also have 2 awesome lyrics clownfish, 1 orange&white and 1 black&white, as well as a few hermit crabs, snails, and brittle starfish. Here are a few pics of my current setup up. I am working on cycling a new 20gal tank and will transfer everything once its ready. The 20gal with allow me to keep a couple more fish, corals, and I will be running an LED light fixture to allow me to keeping SPS corals and have a much more diverse and colorful system

On to the pic...
The intial step
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With the corals
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Clownfish
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20L tank that everything will be transferred to in about a month
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On to the pic...
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Author:  .saint [ February 08, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

thats awesome :thumbup:

I'm into halloween/haunted houses, special fx and makeup and all of that fun stuff along with DJ'n and music production.
oh yeah i grew into quite the shoe collector also.
Author:  munster [ February 08, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

I ride motocross and bmx. When I'm not doing those things I'm usually fishing.
Author:  .saint [ February 08, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

Oh yeah sometimes I ride my 20" around. I only had a few street sesh's last year.
Author:  77 [ February 09, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

I read, mostly military/political history.
Planning our wedding right now takes a lot of time, so it's hard to remember hobbies outside of the car, which is hard to find time for too.
Plus, I work, all the time.
Author:  Sean @ NDF [ February 09, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

Photography, traveling, studying Japanese, and guitar. I have a website too ^^
Author:  ap_red97ek [ February 09, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

.saint wrote:i grew into quite the shoe collector also.
cant say i ever got into the hole collecting shoes thing...unless you want to consider all the old pairs of Nike Air Max Ltd's i have haha thats really the only shoes i buy, just get them in different colors all the time

I used to fish alot back when i lived in PA. I really enjoyed trout fishing but once i moved to Ohio that changed because there arent trout stream where I am. Its funny how moving away takes away a lot of things you used to do. Sucks actually but I have been looking into finding a summer baseball league to join so i can get back into that.
Author:  .saint [ February 10, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

I would like to make my civic road bound again so I'm hoping I can put one of my hobbies on hold this spring to head back to my automotive hobby ;)
Author:  idreamidrive [ February 13, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

Upholstery.

I currently am redoing a couch. I don't have the time to work on it anymore since people are asleep when I actually have time. Sewing isn't just for bitches.
Author:  Jams_ej [ February 13, 2012 ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Hobbies outside of the auto scene

when I'm not messin around with cars/trucks I'm usually spend most of my time working on and buying/selling guns... My grandfather was a gunsmith so I've been around them my whole life and when he died, the family gun business got handed down to me.
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