What brought you to the hobby, fish or coral?

[Sump Crab]

Was it fish or coral that initially attracted you to saltwater aquariums?

 

[FactoryKTMmotocross46]

Fish for sure, back in 2008. But corals made me stay all in.

 

[Jvesche20]

Fish! I went to hawaii and went snorkeling and saw all the colorful fish. My fav was a yellow tang. Then I went suba diving later there and I knew I wanted to keep them in my tank. Later found out about coral

 

[jeffchapok]

Fish initially, although now I hardly watch them. I'm more interested in the corals instead. Fish are just coral food producers.

 

[Sinibotia]

Are we talking about the hobby as in fishkeeping as a whole, or reefkeeping specifically? I started out with a freshwater tank because of fish. However, corals are what brought me to the salty side.

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

the women... definitely the women.

 

[justmee]

Both...

 

[fishface NJ]

Coral...fish I have for others to look at plus the fish poop

 

[X-37B]

Fish and corals were cool but the "live rock of the 80's"
Is what did it for me.
There was so much color and life compaired to today's.
It was stacked up in every lfs I visited.

 

[NC122606]

Mandarin Goby!!!

 

[fish farmer]

It was fish...I don't think I saw corals at my LFS back in 1980..they had cool things like octopus and stingrays.

In 2000 when I started up again it was coral.

 

[LetItReef]

Fish but for some reason I ended up buying more corals

 

[Wolf89]

Hermit crabs actually. Short story really, walking in the sound, picking up hermit crabs, went "Hey, these are neat" did some research and here I am 15 months later with a 90 gallon reef