[Samw]

Had my reef tank for 14 years. Ten years before I set up my reef tank, I kept a marine fish only tank for maybe 5 years with mixed results. I bought my fish from Pet Habitat, and Paul's Aquarium, and a big marine fish shop on E. Hastings and Willingdon. I never even knew about reefing until the Internet allowed me to learn about it since most of the fish shops I went to didn't carry corals. I found J&L on the Internet around 1999.

When I started reefing, J&L had just opened their store. They used to have free personal delivery and they delivered my first live rocks right to my building. My first critters were some blue legged hermits, scarlett hermits, an emerald crab and snails. My first coral was a Xenia frag that I bought from Canadawest. I found his ad on the Buy and Sell website if I remember correctly. My first set of lighting was 110W of power compact GE 9325K bulbs. Growing corals to sell frags was never on my mind originally. But of course, if I have frags available, I would sell them.