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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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01-30-2017, 12:58 PM
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always watched animal movies as a kid but my wife wanted a tank. I always said it was too much work but I eventually gave in
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150 gallon reef mostly softies/lps. 50 gal sump with bubble magnus skimmer/ Led fuge light/refugium/ 1200 return and tunze powerheads. Dual pharoah main tank led.4 pump dosser. 550 gallon stingray tank water drip system 150 bowfront. 75 turtle tank, many others 
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01-30-2017, 02:12 PM
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i'm not gonna lie it was finding nemo
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riceboys 82.7 gallon sps dominant tank -concept built 3'x2'x22" full starfire tank with starfire 1 piece eurobrace and built in wave box, 1 jebao wp25, 4 mp10wes, ati led Hybrid 8 bulb fixture, csc 250 skimmer, Magdrive 18 return pump, apex lite, custom sump from concepts, biopellet reactor and carbon and gfo,bubble magnus doser and jbj ato, custom acrylic frag tank with 6 bulb t5 http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70851
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01-30-2017, 11:44 PM
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In 2005 my sister was going to buy some fiddler crabs from petsmart. I did some research for her and discovered they were brackish water not freshwater like petsmart claimed. She lost interest so I turned the 15g into a nano reef. Almost 12 years later still haven't lost interest.
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01-31-2017, 12:01 AM
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I have pretty much always had (freshwater) tanks of my own for the last 16 years, before that it was family tanks. 5 years ago I got bored of my African Cichlids and made the move to saltwater and haven't regretted it or thought about switching back since.
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01-31-2017, 02:48 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, 04:14 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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01-31-2017, 02:15 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 02:24 PM.
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