80's-90's - Growing up in Hawaii we always had salt tanks but FO with bleached coral lol. I remember my father bleaching coral every few months lol. The fish we would get mainly from the Haliewa docks, one of my favorite past-times. Same method as going to the coast on the jetties, at night.
2000 - My girlfriend at the time (now my wife) had a little 10g guppy tank...their readiness to breed interested me and after experimenting with her tank with bala sharks goldfish and everything else over about 3 years I got into cichlids.
2003 - 2006 Started breeding peacock cichlids, sold a lot of fish on ebay and to TT : ) which eventually funded my conversion into the saltwater hobby. We had a 2 bedroom apartment and one room was dedicated to cichlids
Saltwater - 2006 to present in the following order:
10g - softy tank
40g - hex mixed reef
55g - mixed reef with Lionfish (my wife was the lookout when I would do tank maintenance, i hated predators)
75g - mixed reef
120g - mixed reef
29g - aquapod zoa tank
75g - mixed reef frag tank
144g half circle - Miss this tank - mixed reef
8g biocube - macro tank
14g biocube - macro tank
55g - softy tank
85g - full on decked out frag display tank which turned to display only
220g - frag tank
50g - frag tank
40g - frag tank
30g IM - anem tank
29g Biocube - complete custom system (my current display tank)
40g breeder tank
40g 4 stall breeder system - frags and clownfish (current)
40g 4 stall breeder system - LPS and clownfish (current)
5g - macro tank (current)
30g - frag tank (current)
30g - frag tank (current)
7g - frag tank (current)
2 x 5 gallon buckets of rotifers(current)
One day I will have a place for my livestock to call home and I hope to have a greenhouse.
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