Rich and Famous Reef Owners

[711reefer]

Michael moye was the creator and writer of married with children. he also worked on many tv shows like the jeffersons, different strokes, and good times to name a few. he was an avid reefer years ago and frequented another reef website for years under a handle. he finally revealed his true identity after years of being just another reef guy

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-03/totm/index.php

 

[eatbreakfast]

Michael moye was the creator and writer of married with children. he also worked on many tv shows like the jeffersons, different strokes, and good times to name a few. he was an avid reefer years ago and frequented another reef website for years under a handle. he finally revealed his true identity after years of being just another reef guy

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-03/totm/index.php

He is still really into his tank. His sps grows like weeds and he seriously cuts back his sps by 2/3's almost annually.

 

[Dick Perrin]

Michael Bloomberg is a huge aquarium guy. Rumor has it he has the largest clam in captivity in one of his many tanks. His offices and buildings are packed with tanks.

We sold him a 24" Gigas some years ago while he was in office for his office tank. We grew it here at Tropicorium from a 3 incher over many years. I don't know if he still has it.

 

[reefwiser]

Nice to see you Post Dick . I remember stopping by Tropicorium on a trip back from visiting Steve Tyree back in the 90's with my old friend Jim McCubbins who past a way 10 years ago from cancer. You really had a interesting setup.

 

[Fishboy42]

We sold him a 24" Gigas some years ago while he was in office for his office tank. We grew it here at Tropicorium from a 3 incher over many years. I don't know if he still has it.

Hi Dick, hope all is well! (this is Matt from SA). My sister works for Mr. Bloomberg, so when I visited her last year, I took some pictures of the tanks. I'm pretty sure your clam is still there in the large reeftank (along with a PAIR of hybrid achilles/goldrim tangs!). I'll see if I can get her to take a picture of it for us. Here's me and Amy with a tank -- there's a reeftank on every floor.

 

[Grouchy]

LOL I've never seen a reef tank on tanked I don't think??? There coral inserts from all the episodes I've seen at least!

They've only done 3or 4 , all in the first couple of seasons

 

[SCMatt]

Roman Atwood

Best part about Roman is he is actually a reef junkie. He knows the fish, the coral, etc. Always talks about growing up begging for $5 or $10 equivalent frag scraps at his LFS, and saying that the reef is what he spent his paychecks on. Most other celebrities don't tend to have this type of love for the hobby. He's always showing his setups and showed the initial setup of the main tank in his vlogs on youtube for anyone interested might have to go back a bit to find them. Also has a Tanked episode.

 

[711reefer]

wow dick perrin is here on this site. a legend in coral propagation. I hope this is really you and not some troll.

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

Best part about Roman is he is actually a reef junkie. He knows the fish, the coral, etc. Always talks about growing up begging for $5 or $10 equivalent frag scraps at his LFS, and saying that the reef is what he spent his paychecks on. Most other celebrities don't tend to have this type of love for the hobby. He's always showing his setups and showed the initial setup of the main tank in his vlogs on youtube for anyone interested might have to go back a bit to find them. Also has a Tanked episode.

You knew he was actually into the hobby when you saw his magfloat in the shot when he was on Tanked.

 

[Wh00pS32]

Some of the ones i've seen listed before are,
Madonna.
Ice T.
Nelly.
Steven Spielberg.
Cher.
Alexander McQueen.
Dr Dre.
Mariah Carey.
Although i'm pretty sure none of them touch them themselves

 

[Dick Perrin]

wow dick perrin is here on this site. a legend in coral propagation. I hope this is really you and not some troll.

Yeah, it's me. We're still growing some knockout corals, here, with my son, Ray doing most of the work, but it's sad to say that coral keeping in SE Michigan is a fraction of what it used to be. People still buy fish, thankfully, and we're having a good season but I miss the coral excitement that we used to enjoy. Mike Paletta said some very nice things about us at the last MACNA, especially about our adventures with Tridacna clam culture. Nice to know some people still recognize my name.

 

[Hella_Reef]

And...
Crickets

[emoji23]

 

[robby2782]

I think Jimmy Johnson used to have a tank 20 years ago back when he was still coaching the cowboys.

He did! My Dad and his partner of "Aqua Pets" had a service account with him back in the early 90's. Same with Emmitt Smith. I was too young to appreciate it back then, but my Dad enjoyed the perks of it.

 

[Rhinotronics]

[emoji33] Scary..I think he hit his face on the tank.

Actually it was a goose that hit his face. Haha

 

[nwkermit]

I talked to someone that worked with the tanked guy locally during a build. They only put the fishes in for the shoot. After they got it on tape, local guys come in and catch all the fish and wait for tank to cycle.

 

[davocean]

I talked to someone that worked with the tanked guy locally during a build. They only put the fishes in for the shoot. After they got it on tape, local guys come in and catch all the fish and wait for tank to cycle.

Maybe and hopefully this is a newer policy, because some time back there were a number of reports all fish died and a number of those tanks were on ebay or CL or something not much later, but either way it's misleading to the public and to some LFS

 

[Lasse]

Michael Bloomberg is a huge aquarium guy. Rumor has it he has the largest clam in captivity in one of his many tanks. His offices and buildings are packed with tanks.

Apparently he has learn a lot of being a reefer – maybe through problems to have a good pH in a saltwater tank in a crowded room

Thank You

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/858046936569438210



Sincerely Lasse