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| Family member(s) |
   
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7 | 13.46% |
| Friend |
  
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6 | 11.54% |
| TV show |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Magazine |
  
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1 | 1.92% |
| Pet Store |
  
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4 | 7.69% |
| Love of the ocean |
  
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9 | 17.31% |
| Visiting other peoples aquariums or public aquariums |
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2 | 3.85% |
| Did it on your own |
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15 | 28.85% |
| Inherited or took over from someone else |
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3 | 5.77% |
| Other(please explain) |
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5 | 9.62% |
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#12
01-31-2017, 03:48 AM
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Other. Worked at a petstore during university and they wanted to start selling SW so I started learning on their dollar!
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01-31-2017, 05:14 AM
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kind of a combination of options for me... my dad's first job when he moved to the city in the 70's was at a local pet store in stoon called speers seed and pet and he brought me home a 10g tank for my 6th bday. i kept freshwater for 30 years following that until one day i went to a friends place who had a young saltwater tank with just a few zoas and an anemone. as soon as i saw the color i was converted.
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#14
01-31-2017, 03:15 PM
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I picked "magazine", closest thing to "book".
 In the early '90s (I was a tweenie) I used to go to the library with my mom (she read a lot), and they had this section that was about 3 feet long that was all aquarium books. There were a few in there that had freshwater and saltwater in them, and I remember seeing a Copperband Butterflyfish in one of these books and thinking, "I gotta get one of those!" I never did buy a CBB, thankfully. I bought much worse though... So I then spent my time "special ordering" saltwater books from other libraries once I discovered you could do that. My mom used to drive me to a small town in the USA (we lived really close to the border) about 45 mins away which was the closest store to me that had SW. I used to spend ALL my babysitting money there - $40 a week. I remember the first time I saw hydroid medusa swimming in my first tank (a 20-gallon hexagonal tank with an UGF, a non-submersible heater, and a single T8 bulb), and both my mom and I were totally in awe! That's definitely THEE most memorable reef keeping moment for me. This was one of my staple books: You and Your Aquarium by Dick Mills, 1986.  I remember The Conscientious Marine Aquarist, 1996 being brand new, and was so excited to get a new book from the library transfer program. Last edited by Myka; 01-31-2017 at 03:24 PM.
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My aquarium is nothing but a smorgasbord for my cats.....
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