Juicycoral
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I want to hear everyone's stories on what brought them to the reefing community? Where did you begin as a reefer?
What started your reef addiction
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Okay. I go first.
I had a Discus tank and I was in the LFS store, many years ago, and I happened to wander into the saltwater room. I saw the colors of the fish and thought I just had to have a tank for those fish. So off went the Discus and the tank got re-drilled and off we went.
I had a Discus tank and I was in the LFS store, many years ago, and I happened to wander into the saltwater room. I saw the colors of the fish and thought I just had to have a tank for those fish. So off went the Discus and the tank got re-drilled and off we went.
bbandu
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Well for me it was a move to California, I had lived in Texas and was very heavely into freshwater tropicals and when the militry moved me to Socal I found out very quickly that there were not as many people into freshwater as there was into saltwater. Through the internet I found a local forum and started lurking. After meeting some people and seeing some amazing tanks I knew that saltwater was the way to go. So I sold off all of my freshwater equipment and livestock and set up a mixed reef tank.
stylaster
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I had to have a kidney transplant, and it didnt go to well lots of difficulties so i was home bound for over a year and needing something to pass the time and help me not think about it. So i took up the more stressful hobby of reef keeping 
Cooper32803
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I had a ten gallon freshwater tank when I was a kid and then took a break, then when I bought my house I figured I would do another freshwater tank so I did an African Cichlid tank... Then I saw corals... and so the obsession began...
freshwater turned into a "job" it only took me 6 months to convince the wifey to go sw and of course she saw the mandarin in the tank at the lfs, she handed me the check book right then and there
To sum up what started my coral collecting craze,
Back when I only had 2 or 3 chalices I came across a reef keeping magazine that the front page had a picture of the LE Bubble Gum Monster chalice along with a title that said something along the lines of The New Exotic Craze. I drooled over this chalice for a few minutes,hahaha. Following that I took a weeks vacation in Orlando. On the way down I was curious to see if any nice shops were in the area. Little did I know World Wide Corals was less than 10 miles from where I was staying all week! Once I walked in and saw their collection then, roughly 2 years ago, in person I started collecting.
Back when I only had 2 or 3 chalices I came across a reef keeping magazine that the front page had a picture of the LE Bubble Gum Monster chalice along with a title that said something along the lines of The New Exotic Craze. I drooled over this chalice for a few minutes,hahaha. Following that I took a weeks vacation in Orlando. On the way down I was curious to see if any nice shops were in the area. Little did I know World Wide Corals was less than 10 miles from where I was staying all week! Once I walked in and saw their collection then, roughly 2 years ago, in person I started collecting.
My grandfather had tanks when I was growing up and I thought it was amazing watching his lion fish gulp up feeder fish ever since I could remember I wanted one now I looking around to see we're I can put more tanks..
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Juicycoral
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I love peoples stories. Keep them coming. i will give you all a little history of myself. I was actually on a Animal Emergency house call and i walked into this beautiful house and there was a huge saltwater reef. This guy has had this reef going for some time. I couldn't help myself but i kept on asking questions about the tank. I kept forgetting why i was there in the first place. I just had many questions about the tank. Of course he didn't know much about it because he didn't take care of it and maintain it. He has a service that came over to his house once a week and stocked it and checked the levels. All maintenance stuff. Lest just say that a week later i found myself walking into a LFS and ordering my first aquarium. I couldn't believe how much i didn't know about saltwater aquariums. I had a lot to learn really fast. So i bought a few books and started reading. Ever since then i have been hooked.
SeahorseKeeper
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I work in a pet store and wanted to try a saltwater tank since I struggled with my personal freshwater tank.
Pappy
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A chef I used to work for had this amazing tank I saw and the addiction kicked in immediately. I told him I had to start one right away and he gave me about $250 worth of stuff and said lemme know how else I could help!!!
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Juicycoral
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awesome..
dwilliams87
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I had freshwater tanks through middle school and started a ten gallon saltwater in high school. I had a clown and a damsel in there. After me and my wife got married I sat the ten gallon back up. Soon I found corals and now there are four tanks in my house stocked full.
Mine started over 30 years ago when I would help my father with his tanks, and it just grew and grew from there. Now I have a 400 gallon natural sun-lit reef!
Wesley42079
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I've had African Cichlids for many years and always visited my locak lfs. Well I brought my 3 year old son with me abd he ask to have the "nemo" fish.
I explained to him that we needed a saltwater tank and I didn't know anything about reefing.
Well sure enough I did plenty if research and purchased our BC29. I fell in love and now most of my free time and money goes into our hobby.
I explained to him that we needed a saltwater tank and I didn't know anything about reefing.
Well sure enough I did plenty if research and purchased our BC29. I fell in love and now most of my free time and money goes into our hobby.
peter505
Active Member
A couple years ago right before my freshman year of High school (currently going into junior year), I met a friend of mine and he had a little 10 gallon saltwater tank. After much convincing, my mom took me to a little lfs in my town. Shortly thereafter I bought a 20 gallon tank and started rolling with a couple of fish and some rock. I had been building up the coral in my tank and was going to the lfs about once a week and before I knew it I had my own little reef! I have had some stumbling points over the last couple of years, But now have a thriving biocube hqi sps reef set up on a stand I built and couldn't be happier. I have such a good relationship built up with my lfs here in Rockford that I already have been offered a job to work there when I turn 16! Anyways sorry for the long post but this is the story of how I ended up being so into reefing.
