Cast your vote! How were you first introduced to nano reefs?

plants got boring. google pulled up NR...

i just surfed in

to be honest, i may have found gil's site first :x

actually im kind of like you adinsxq. One day i got bored of freshwater and found Reefcentral and started looking around and found myself in the nano section and to my suprise some of those nano were very attractive and i found a link from RC to NR and yup now im an addict sum what.

Surfing.....I was researching starting a salt water tank (fish only).........and stumbled upon something much more exciting.

i wanted to go big (40 gal breeder0 but due to monetary issues decided to go small. little did i know....

i had started a fowlr and decided that fish were kinda boring after a month or so....so i decided to figure out what kind of creatures i could keep under the stock eclipse lighting....lol. i kept some mushrooms, zoos, gsp, and a condy anemone(until i read up on this site and got rid of him!).

adinsxq showed me the way. always wanted a reef for the last 10 years, but was scared by the huge price tag and all the equipment (wet dry, skimmer, sump, overflow, lights, etc). nano-reef showed me how to balance the system, so that i could get mostly what i thought i wanted previously. who needs bubble coral when you can get zoanthids.

I just have a facination with the ocean.

I was doing research on a stock which involved nano tech and google sent me here......

Then saw brooklynJohnies tank.....

The rest is history!!!

My friend got me into the idea of reef keeping, so I did some research and found Nano-Reef.com and then my true begginings started

a friend brought me some hermit from his holiday, which lead me to building up a saltwater tank with the only tank i had at home... a 2.5 gallon...

Actually none of the reasons above did anything for my choice to shift into Nano reefing. I was first turned onto Nano-reefs for three main reasons...

Number one: I wanted to keep corals - I have a 75 gl that has been running for about a year now. That being my first attempt at salt water, I rushed in and didnt take into account that some of the fish I was stocking wouldnt take well to a reef environment as they would consume the corals!

Number Two: Being a devoted aquarist - I was broke as hell. So naturally when I thought to get another tank for corals and such there was no way I could afford anything bigger than a bloody nano! ( little did I know that it would cost me more deniro in the long run, yaargh!) Savings accounts are for chumps anyhow..

Number Three: The challenge! Having kept my 75 for about a year without any major problems I was getting lax on my interest - it was time to step up the pace and see what else I could get my salt encrusted hands into. Plus, it gave me a good excuse to buy another fish - which would never of fit into my stocked 75 at thas point!

Im just waiting for my nano to be full now so I can 'convince' myself that I need to get a wall unit. Which at this pace shouldnt be much longer than a few months... (YAY!)

I was just surfing for reef-aquaria forums, and found this site. Now I'm hooked
Setting up my first nano right now...

I actually dont know how I got to this site, hehe. I was just playing around on the net. Found this site and built a nano.

I used a "Search" button and found exactly what I was looking for

Found out about nano-reef.com from usenet postings in alt.aquariums.reef or something like that....

My kid was diagnosed with asthma after rushing him to hospital for the fourth time. The asthma attacks are from alergies. So after trips to specialists he is allergic to anything with fur. He loves animals, we live next to the beach, I surf, hell, reef tank. We were just building our house during all this so I went with a nano-reef. So two years later I can say my kid has not been to the hospital, he is very healthy, our nano-reef is final also healthy after my most recent upgrade.

Now wife wants bigger. Also planning on another new house so we will incorporate one into the house this time.

My wife watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and decided that she wanted to keep seahorses. Although the seahorse thing didn't happen, we started our first FOWLER, and now that I've caught the bug, I'm trying to upgrade to reef. We're doing nano cause we live in an apartment.

I started working at a local fish store and before I knew it I was spending all the money they gave me at my work. Entire pay checks go do the drain regularly. I told my boss that I'll work for coral. LOL.

All ways wanted a Salt water tank when iwas younger parents said NO to expensive well i went and did it my dam self google and found this site

at my lfs i saw a great reef tank, it was amazing, that is part of got got me into nano reefing, the other part was when i went to egypt and swam in the red sea...the reef there is AMAZING!!!

Good friend of mine set up a 15 gal. bowfront and had it stocked pretty well I got tired of just watching him build up the tank and decided to do my own reef. well it is over a year later and my reef is still going and his is a fowler. If he only had the net to check out the boards mabey he would have done better.

I have been keeping fish all my life. Which really isn't all that long. But i've had salts for about six years, but I had a fish only for four, and for the past two years i've kept a ten gallon with live rock and live sand and a single damsel (who was actually my fist salt fish). When he died I decided to go after what I always wanted in a salt, coral. I only had an anemone before, and I knew almost nothing about coral care. I did a google search and I found NR. Theres alot of aquarium sites out there, i've looked, and this is the best site I have found yet.

Now if someone can only start a site like this for cichlids.

I was in one of my local stores and saw one of the Aqua Vases setup as a reef and I was hooked. Walked out $100 less cash in the pocket and a 6g Via Aqua, salt mix and a bag of live sand. 15 months and 3 Nano's Later.....

You know the rest of the story.

I was actually on www.fishprofiles.com and I was in the chat... At the time I was doing freshwater aquriums, but when someone in the chat was talking about this website, I went to it, and I knew what my new hooby was

My boyfriend knew I was interested in saltwater tanks, so he bought me a nano for Hanukkah to get me started. He showed me this website.

www.cichlid-forum.com It was in the other fish forum lol

I usually spend time on www.tropicalresources.net becuase it has everything along with lots of respected folks...

But I'd kept freshwater for the longest time, and bigger SW tanks were expensive and not terribly interesting...

i worked for an lfs and never really saw a nano. we had a 750 gallon and a 300 at the store that i worked on and maintained so i figured i could do it on a small scale. this was when everyone said it couldnt be done. i dont think this website existed because i couldnt find anything on small reef tanks on the web. custom sealife jsut came out with the 32w retro and i saw it fit into the stock minibow hood. it was on from there, that was over 6 years ago

My husband had been doing research for his 75 gallon discus tank (which turned out to be a 75 gallon Lake Malawi cichild tank lol) In passing he said, "They've got this thing called 'nano reefs'. You should check it out." Three days later I'd purchased my equipment

(He won't admit it, but my husband is insanely jealous that my bitsy 5.5g nano outshines his dream tank lol)

my wife wanted a cute clownfish and an anemone.... i read books and articles, saw this site, and told her "honey we can get the clownfish but not the anemone...how about a xenia?"

somehow how I googled something like, small saltwater, or maybe nano saltwater, and here I am

I wanted to create my own Micro-Universe, researched all areas of reference and decided a NanoCube was an easy start. Came across Nano-reef.com in my research. Alot of very intellegent, friendly, helpful members to call upon if a problem devolops. Its a challange, but the rewards are great. Always something new to deal with. Always something new to see in the tank.

Saw many mention this site on ReefCentral.

ya...just like bigbenji...i must have searched for "small saltwater tank" or somthing like that on a search engine and got to nano-reef...and well i guess that was my intro to nanos

My grandfather was on his last weeks with his battle with lung cancer. We took him to the aquarium of the Pacific, and I was touched by how much enjoyment a dying man got from watching the fish. I started up my nano with the hopes of setting it up for him, but time ran out.

Kinda funny how the road of life takes you down unexpected twists and turns. As the CEO of my own little software firm, I had some extra time on my hands, and boom.. Nanocustoms.com was born.

This is definately an addiction.

My fiance and I were bouncing around on the net pricing stuff for a 75 gallon freshwater setup. We found Petsolutions website and saw the JBJ nano cube, at which point we became interested in a reef tank. I've kept marine fish before, had a 30L fowdcs ( fish only with dead coral skeletons) but never a reef tank. After a few more google searches on the nanocube we found this site. It's been full speed ahead ever since. We now have a 30g oceanic cube, 175 watt mh lighting that should be up and running in a month. Sometimes I think she's more into it than me, she even bought me a book on marine inverbrates for Valentines day.

ccjung, I think we were posting at the same time. Sorry for your loss.

It was quite a few years ago i wanted to start a reef but didnt have the money so i was wondering if i could start a small one and the research has been going on from then. This site is just the best that i have ever seen on small reef tanks (Nano).

Is it just me or are half of the people on this thread answering how they got into nano reefs, and the other half answering how they found this site. I voted other on how I got into nano reefs, just because I just wanted a saltwater tank, and I didn't wanna spend $600 and find out I didn't like it. So I went cheap and slowly went more expensive as I liked it more. How I found nano-reef.com was from a pm from a friend of mine in our local club's forum.

my bro got me into reefs

I like fishy, and my gf knew I did. She took me to a fish store, and we bought a Nano Cube.

I was an "other." I had a nano-reef thrust upon me on my b-day. My pockets are empty but life is rich.

I started off with asian arowanas, but then it got boring and I couldn't do much but feed them, then I saw a nano cube at a LFS and was amazed

my wife made me make her one, " baby, set me up a tank like that " its thoes darn eyes

That "Marine Aquarium" ScreenSaver from Seren Screen got me. My boss had a copy of it and he let me load it onto my office computer. That was probably the worst move he could have made. I spent more time staring at my stupid monitor than actually doing my work. After a few days, I knew I had to have a real reef.

I had a small tank laying around and thought "that'd make a cute little marine tank" Then someone mentioned it was called a nano reef and I googled

saw a mandarin. but gil's xenia inspired me to be an annoying reefer

have had a bunch of larger tanks. cost and space got me into the nano.