What Was Your Inspiration to get into SW?
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fallnhorse
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Ever since i was a kid i could stare at the tv on the discover channel for hours watching the sea creature. Like a hippie watching a lava lamp. I guess i didn't grow up.
So i had to have a tank. So i spend hours watching it each night.
seasalt101
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love the ocean live in tx, got disabled so i have all the time i need to beautify my little nook of the world and i am not a fan of t.v and i love my aquarium i'll sit and watch as they swim and watch me, i'm hoping they like me as much as i like them and they're not just waiting for food
tobin
wangotango
Active Member
Originally Posted by NigerBang
Same reason with me..never looked back...
pretty much the same for me. one morning i woke up and said "maybe ill try a saltwater tank." i look at my 46 freshwater tank now and see a reef... :thinking:
-Justin
Same reason with me..never looked back...
pretty much the same for me. one morning i woke up and said "maybe ill try a saltwater tank." i look at my 46 freshwater tank now and see a reef... :thinking:
-Justin
geridoc
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I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in biology and I had fw tanks, but knew nothing about the biology of a captive tank. I met Steven Spotte, and he told me about nitrogen cycles that were then just beginning to be understood in salt water tanks, and I just got fascinated by the possibilities. Thirty five years later I am still fascinated.
richarl5
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Originally Posted by GeriDoc
I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in biology and I had fw tanks, but knew nothing about the biology of a captive tank. I met Steven Spotte, and he told me about nitrogen cycles that were then just beginning to be understood in salt water tanks, and I just got fascinated by the possibilities. Thirty five years later I am still fascinated.
Awesome!
I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in biology and I had fw tanks, but knew nothing about the biology of a captive tank. I met Steven Spotte, and he told me about nitrogen cycles that were then just beginning to be understood in salt water tanks, and I just got fascinated by the possibilities. Thirty five years later I am still fascinated.
Awesome!
autofreak44
Active Member
i was down somewhere in laguna beach and we stoped by a pet shop w/ great selection and i didnt have an idea for christmas gifts so i told my mom i thought it would be cool, and for christmas she bought me a nano and "salt water for dummies" book, and im hooked ever since
ricks280
Member
inspiration! gee,
it would have 2 be the colours of the fish the way a mini coral system can look at home and the chalange to keep such a great beutifull moving picture at home
:jumping: ps its also a great joy having so many people on this board to help each one of us make our challange a lot easier ! thank u all so much for sharing ur goods and bads and making each one of us a better aquuarist!
(rick)
it would have 2 be the colours of the fish the way a mini coral system can look at home and the chalange to keep such a great beutifull moving picture at home
bgrae001
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I'll be honest with you, My daughter has me wrapped around her finger and she loved Nemo. We watched it every night for a couple of months. I decided to set up her own Nemo tank. I took her to the Atlanta Aquarium when she was about 1 and a half. she was soooo funny running around yelling fishy, daddy look fishy. I couldn't let her down. Now we have a 55gal corner reef, and I'm getting a 200 gal FOLR to set as a room divider between the dining room and living room and my daughter is getting a sea horse tank in her room. Its hard to believe I have 3 other children. 2 older and one yonger. My older son is changing his 55gal to sw using his own money, but it's in storage back in the states so he'll have to wait till Oct 09, when we get stationed back in the states. I tried to talk him into a nano, I have everything to set one up, but hes set on getting a lion fish.
earlybird
Active Member
A couple things for me. I'm a teacher in Florida and although I don't make a lot of money I like to waste what little I do make. I have a boat and I like to fish every chance I get. After dinner I fish for about an hour almost every day right off of my dock. I get a lot of pleasure of releasing most 99.9% of my fish as I feel that I am conserving nature. People think I'm nuts when I let go all of my keeper snook and most of the keeper redfish that I do catch. I am guilty however of keeping 99.9% of any keeper snapper I catch as long as I have enough for dinner. The ocean amazes me and thus my interest in saltwater fish keeping.
clown316
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Hey look at that tank!... is that salt water!!??... next day I started planning my tank... and my grandmother attempted fresh water and failed... so she gave me the 29 gallon biocube... I didnt pay a dime... and then the addiction grew... and i spent all my money... and used all the gift certificates i got for christmas and my birthday.. wahoo.. pretty soon im gonna need to get a job at the lfs to support this hobby! quite exspensive if u ask me...
falynharris
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When my husband and I got married we went on a Caribbean cruise. And we went snorkeling in 3 different parts of the Caribbean, and we want to go back so bad. So one day, my husband got a wild hair up his butt to bring a piece of the Caribbean home. So we started making phone calls and doing a lot of research on a tank (we have several freshwater tanks) and we came across a great deal on a used 200 gallon tank that was still running but the owner could not take care of it anymore, so we bought it, brought it home and ta da! And since then just about everything on it has broken and been replaced. lol. :joy:
Oh and PS, I knw which aquarium you are talking about in Monaco. I have been there to and it is jaw droppingly beautiful.
Oh and PS, I knw which aquarium you are talking about in Monaco. I have been there to and it is jaw droppingly beautiful.
falynharris
Member
Originally Posted by richarl5
How is it "kind of" in France? Is it in another country also?
Monaco is sorta part of France like Pueto Rico is sorta part of the US. It's an independent whatever, but still a French property... make sense?
How is it "kind of" in France? Is it in another country also?
Monaco is sorta part of France like Pueto Rico is sorta part of the US. It's an independent whatever, but still a French property... make sense?
