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My kids and finding nemo :-)


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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!

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.

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.
http://rcdn-1.fishpond.co.nz/0006/20...5829789/6.jpeg


I remember The Conscientious Marine Aquarist, 1996 being brand new, and was so excited to get a new book from the library transfer program.
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...UkVO6zU_esYugQ

Sorry Mindy I did try to add book to the list but the edit timer passed by