What First Pulled You Into Reefing?

[Pretzel's Reef]

Daughter wanted a hermit crab off the beach, I said yes (prior to doing research). Got home (10hrs from beach) realized it's a marine hermit crab, she said "well he needs friends" so now we have Pretzel and his 40 gallon with friends. I became addicted...

 

[painter1982]

I use to deliver newspapers when I was a kid, a fish store was on my route. I would deliver their newspaper and then spend way too much time in there looking. I got to know them pretty well and they’d invite me to help when new shipments came or if maintenance time came around. I was free labor for them. Often times I’d be rewarded with some livestock or something. This was early 1980’s.

 

[kevgib67]

Well, there was this guy in a van behind the gas station who offered me free corals. You know, the soft stuff, gsp, zoas and mushrooms for free. Then I kept going back. When I showed up with dark circles Under my eyes and the shakes he started charging me for the hard stuff, you know, lps and Sps. I lost my job, my home and my wife and kids. I’m in a program now but still living under an overpass with my tank and grocery cart which contains all my worldly possessions and a cardboard sign that says I will work for fish food. I wish I never met the man in the van, he ruined my life.