Who got you started in this hobby?

[KeeperOfFish]

0.1g sea monkey tank...5g freshwater tank...now I've got 2 SW tanks.

 

[pepeinthenavy]

You know what I lied, my first was the sea monkey tank so many years ago. The "good ol' days"

 

[LionfishFinatic]

I got in myself. I looked my parents straight in the eye and said "I want to start saltwater!!" after being sick of freshwater for soooooooo long. They said " fine but......." I said " but what" and you know what was coming for me...."YOU'RE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!" Of course that wasn't entirely true. I still get christmas and my B-Day!!!

 

[Hormigaquatica]

My parents are to blame!
When I was 10 I really wanted a ball python. Both of my parents are terrified of snakes though, so come my birthday, they had gotten me a 10g freshwater tank. It took off from there.
For a few years we would go look at fish, and all loved the colors of the saltwater fish, so finally when I was 13, I had saved up money to get myself a marine tank. Walked into the store- and walked out with a newborn hedgehog. Oops. My parents said I couldnt ever get the salt tank after that.
A year or so later, we were getting ready to move to Ohio, and my parents were going to get my sister and I new beds along the way. I told them mine was comfy and didnt want a new one. They said- what do you want? Well...
So my parents ended up buying me a 55g salt system (larger than the original 30 I had saved for). 10 years later, here I still am

 

[busybee04]

My dad had a 400 gallon reef tank when I was growing up. I didn't think much about the hobby as an adult but a few coworkers had reef tanks and that got me inspired to jump into the hobby myself.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10466349#post10466349 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pepeinthenavy
You know what I lied, my first was the sea monkey tank so many years ago. The "good ol' days"

Pfft! i grow Sea Monkeys for food

 

[blu iz]

My parents got me started out with a 10 gal gold fish tank. Moved to guppies and a bigger tank, and when the guppies got out of hand got a couple of angel fish to eat them. Moved to a 55 gal with 7 little Piranhas and that was the last tank I had almost 20 yrs ago. Moved to AL and have way to many FW and SW tanks in my house.... thanks to BF getting HOOKED in the hobby.

 

[Reefer Wannabe]

I teach gifted kids. Decided to do a 29 gallon saltwater tank as a class project. Three years later--no tank in classroom, but got a 90 gallon reef at home.

 

[miwoodar]

I had a couple of tanks when I was in grade school.

Marine tanks came along in college. My buddy convinced me to buy a salt tank and the addiction began. Funny - he never got past a simple fish only tank. My fish only tank lasted a summer then I went head first into reefs.

 

[lockus]

One of my co-workers had a tank. Asked him about it and we went to Harbor Aquatics. Anyone who went there (when it was around) knows once you experienced something like that it was not hard to be hooked for life. Now I only wish there was still a place like that locally.

 

[alten78]

All my friends and family helped me get into it when they said it was too hard and I couldn't do it (though none of them actually knew how to barely keep goldfish alive.)

 

[happyface888]

Goldfish are hard to keep lol, Salt water requires more time but in the long run things seem to be easier. I never had one stay alive longer than 2 weeks .

 

[Malenurse]

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. When I was a kid - about 1968, my little brother had to have heart surgery. I wasn't allowed to visit because I was too young so I spent countless hours in the waiting room looking at the hospital's little 10 gallon aquarium. After he got home, we got our first little steel-edged, slate-bottom tank.

 

[rbursek]

SALTWATEER,
with LR and a skimmer is so much easier then a under graver filter in fresh water!!!!!!!!! AAnd nuch more prettier too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob

 

[skaterzero22]

biology/marine biology teacher.. after seeing his tanks and learning about so much of the ocean i wanted to take care of the animals myself. maybe help some coral.. since its dying all over the earth

 

[happyface888]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10471314#post10471314 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rbursek
SALTWATEER,
with LR and a skimmer is so much easier then a under graver filter in fresh water!!!!!!!!! AAnd nuch more prettier too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob

Yeah, I totaly agree it has a much more natural feel than gravel filled fresh water tanks.

 

[JeBuS]

i needed something to look at while i did crack

 

[GlobalEvan]

I needed something to look at while I paced back an forth, ground my teeth to dust, and hit my room mates up for small amounts of cash, and sold everything I owned..... and made weird clawing gestures at the air.

(I once had a room mate on crack. it was amazing)

 

[happyface888]

lol, so has anyone tried to drag others into this addicting hobby? The vicious cycle.

 

[clavery]

My husband came home with a 30G fresh water tank, which turned into a brackish water tank, which was eventually upgraded to a 75G bowfront reef-ready tank. When I started micro-managing his coral and fish purchases, he went out and got me my own 70G tank.

So it's all hubby's fault!!!!!