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05/29/2008, 02:25 PM
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I took a break for a short time and then seeing black and white osc. clowns at the lfs got me hooked again.
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05/29/2008, 03:42 PM
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I got tired of having extra money and low electric bills.
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05/29/2008, 04:13 PM
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I'm thinking of putting a sign on my tank stating "This is a Crab Free Zone!!"  (truthfully, I really do like to watch saltwater crabs, but they just ain't reef safe IMO)
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05/29/2008, 04:15 PM
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05/29/2008, 04:37 PM
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Mykel...... ok, you got me, but it was debt I could live with! I am sticking to the part about the electric bills. Sounds like someone must have owned a boat.
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05/29/2008, 05:36 PM
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Moved On
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Location: Bureau County Illinois
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I just like watching my electric meter spinning like a freakin' baloney slicer! Actually, like an idiot, I bailed on the Discus thing back in the 80's when I saw that first damn mushroom rock.Duh?! Hey what's that? Saltwater? Now that I see all the Discus varieties out there, I kinda wish I had a house twice as big as this one!
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05/29/2008, 06:10 PM
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My first real job EVER was waaay back in the summer of 1978 when I was 15 years old and got a part time job cleaning out fish tanks at a LFS in a mall back on Long Island. One of only 3 stores on LI (at the time) that carried SW at all.
Ahhh...the "good ole days" of air driven UGFs, dolomite gravel, and dead coral skeletons for decor... If you could keep a Yellow Tang alive for more than a few weeks you were considered an "expert" back then. Brought home my first SW setup using my first 2 paychecks. A 29g on an angle iron stand. Right around the 4th of July, if my memory is correct. Which means I'll reach my 30 year "Anniversary" in about a month
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05/29/2008, 07:14 PM
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A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into, while a reef tank is a hole FULL of water that you throw money into!! I got tired of paying boat dues, so decided to spend that money and bring the ocean to me now
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05/29/2008, 07:45 PM
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I kept freshwater a long time ago after a move. I gave up motorcycling and track-days. I started going stir-crazy. I always wanted to go salt, and so here I am.
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05/29/2008, 07:52 PM
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I have no memories that don't have aquariums in them ,around them all my life. Father's dream to open a shop and when he retired he did just that. Coerced me into joining him ( was a Master Honda Automobile Tech for over ten years) and when he retired again ( lucky *******) I'm left holding the fish bag , as it were. So in my case it was either genetic or viral.
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05/29/2008, 09:21 PM
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Started volunteering to take care of a 40 gal salt tank in my 10th grade biology classroom. 25 years ago......
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05/29/2008, 09:29 PM
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When I first started as a mortgage broker, the place I went to work for had a 180 in the conference room with a full grown volitan, a dogfaced puffer, SFE, maroon clown, hippo tang, yellow tang, purple tang, naso tang, and niger trigger. I fell in love with it the first day and by that night I was on the internet looking for information.
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05/29/2008, 10:14 PM
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Moved On
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Location: In America's Dangling Junk State.
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I got tired of walking the two blocks to the ocean to see the critters before I was 10, so I built 6-2 1/2 gallon tanks out of a set of french doors a neighbor was throwing out.
my mum bought me my first 'real' tank for my 10th birthday and it just keeps gettin' worse...
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05/29/2008, 10:25 PM
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I caught some cool looking fish while using a 2 man seine to catch eating shrimp in the brackish mudflats of NC in about 1963.
I spent my summers there with my grandfather. We could catch a 5 G bucket full of shrimp in 5 or 6 pulls. I put the fish in an old style metal soft drink dispenser he had for bait (about 75G) with water dripping from a salt water well. Had a couple of 1/2 in. puffers, pipefish and some Killis.They were in there all summer and I let then them go when I had to go back to school in Fl. I bought a 15G tank a couple of years later and kept small fish I caught in the FL bays until I went to college and the the USN. |
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05/29/2008, 11:42 PM
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Location: Central Vermont
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Snorkeling in the Caribbean and seeing other people's reef tanks!
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05/30/2008, 09:52 AM
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How's this:
In about 1975 my soon-to-be ex-wife decided I needed a hobby so I would stop complaining about her drinking. 
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05/30/2008, 10:13 AM
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Well, it was a combo of things for me. Originally it was watching the discovery channel and seeing a program about the Great Barrier Reef, and then we went snorkeling in Mexico when I was a little kid, and that kind of sealed the deal for me. I had a little 10gal w/ 2 ocellaris clowns, a TINY green puffer and a baby lionfish that was smaller than a quarter.
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05/30/2008, 12:08 PM
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We were given a free established 125g fowlr that has turned out to be one of the most expensive "free" things I have ever recieved...
Friends don't give friends "free" fish tanks 
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