My friends over at ReefBuilders approached me a few weeks back and asked if I could contribute a guest post to the site on Blue-Collar Reefing. I put together my first post, “Blue Collar Reefing: Putting Knowledge First.” about two weeks ago and had the honor to have it posted right before the MAX conference. Why the late notice? Because I missed it being online which is funny because I subscribe to the blog and was loving all the news coming out of the show. Guess it’s time to get my eyes checked again!

This post is a bit overdue but still wanted to share with everyone. Our local reef club, the Northern Valley Reefers, was featured in the March issue of Reefkeeping Magazine. Thanks to my fellow board members Jacob, Brian M. and Lak for the help and to our great members as inspiration!

I had the honor to contribute an article over at AquaDaily and my first one went up this morning. Owen’s got a great blog over there and is work checking out for freshwater and saltwater hobbyists. We tapped into one of my passions, DIY projects, for the article and came up with “DIY aquarium projects: 7 good reasons to make your own equipment.”

This one made me think a bit and the obvious one was to save money, but that is not always the case especially if you have to buy tools which add to the cost. So I grabbed my handy notepad and sat down and thought about it while enjoying my tank. I looked at all the reasons why I take on these tasks and found out a lot about why I do. It was fun scoping this all out and coming up with seven great reasons. Oh, BTW I created that picture just for the article!

Go ahead and read the article and if you have some other reasons why you DIY, please comment either here or on AquaDaily!