why did you
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brent ward;101848 said:
I was getting bored burning my money, so I tried flushing it, only fun for awhile, so I bought a tank. 
After breeding reptiles and amphibians, I wanted a similar if not more challenging hobby.
After breeding reptiles and amphibians, I wanted a similar if not more challenging hobby.
I am just enamored with the complexity of these creatures, the fact that they live in such a hostile environment, waiting to eat one another in the craziest way you have ever seen.
I dig the Latin too.
Some may say I never have gotten into the hobby. : ) But ever since I was a child I wanted one. We lived near the coast in cali and spent allot of time on the ocean. We would always go to this restaurant that had a reef tank and was mezmorized with it. I would woof down my dinner so i could go set by it until we left. My parents just never wanted to support a hobby that required any money or effort. As I got older I really got into cars and did that for a long time, when that ended I started looking for something new and remembered this was always something I loved as a child so figured I'd get involved. Even though I have yet to have a functional reef I still love spending all my free time reeding about and planning my one day dream tank.
After I felt like I had accomplished all things I set out to do in the FW realm I needed something new. One of my freinds said SW isn't that hard you should try it........after 11 years here we are still trying to keep on top of the tanks and keep up with all the new advancements in reef keeping.
More importantly there is nothing like a full reef ....
More importantly there is nothing like a full reef ....
Been into fresh water my whole, life. I was into the African cichlids. I always said "I will never have saltwater to complicated" One evening several years ago me and my wife ran down to Aqua Mart to pick up some new Africans. Walked in the store and all the freshwater fish were gone. I was bummed. My wife and I walked around looking at all the stuff there and was just like man there is some really cool stuff. Even being in fish stores all my life never really paid much attention to the salt section. Then there was this guy who worked there "Chris I think" Steadily telling us what everything was and saying how you can frag them and sell/trade the coral and next thing you know he was showing us the 34 gal Solana that is now my daughters. So long story short we went for two particular cichlids and left with 34 gallon solana 50lbs, LR bucket of Salt, heater, lights, etc. My $100 trip turned into $700. The best thing about it, it was all my wifes idea so now I get no complaing from her and we have the 34 gallon, 110 gallon, 180 gallon and 12 gallon that are salt and the 55 gallon and 125 gallon fresh. So today we are just a couple happy reefers.
I kept freshwater tanks for many years, specializing in Discus after a while. Ended up with a couple of breeding pairs and started raising fry into adolescence... traded the young discus into the local stores and ended up with so much credit that I setup my first saltwater tank. Back then it was the only way you could spend more than $100 on a fish. That was 20 years ago.... the beauty still holds my interest... though sometimes I do think burning $100 bills might be more entertaining. Then I stop to look at my tanks and am enthralled once again.
I've always had a love for water, I love to fish and boat, but my fish keeping started out with freshwater for nearly 20 years, then a buddy brought me into the colorful world of salt and reef back in January this year. My 125 is now about 7 months old and is doing great ( no more algae problems either ) I have TONS of coralline growing beautiful reds, maroons, and purples. The few corals I have are thriving.. And yes I still keep a freshwater tank, but its not filled with pretty fish, its a natural tank with 2 bluegill and a catfish. Makes for a great contrast from sea to shore. I also picked up a nice rose anemone from my friend last week and its great. Just need lots more corals And a few clowns..
Ryan
And a few clowns.. Ryan