Airphotog

The original club was in the greater Seattle area.

The reason I ended up getting out of the hobby was I took a job for a marketing company and was away from home somtimes 3 weeks at a time so it was to hard to keep the tank up. I have had a 75 planted tank up and running now for a year and a half and just started a 29 bow nano reef. The hobby has changed tremendously. Back in the day we had no foods to go buy for our corals so we made our own skimmers were huge no additives to speak of and the salt was hit and miss but once you got dialed in and kept up with water changes things were OK. There are so many skimmer,pump,lighting,food,additives and whatever else out ther now it is alot easier to setup a reef and keep it going. Back in those days I was importing live rock from Hawaii and would bring in sometime up to 30 boxes at a time. All of the members would order what they wanted and the cost was the same for all of us. Now I guess the Hawaii rock is no longer available. That is too bad it was really nice stuff. I had a friend that owned a shop in the U district called Fin and Feather and he always got me stuff at his cost so that helped a bit.

Paul lives in Montana and I live in Tacoma. I am not sure if Bert is still around. It was pretty fun back in those days (late 80s) we had monthly meetings at members houses. I do not remember how many members we started with but it was a few. I looked to see if I had any of the original news letters but ciuld not find any I haved moved a few times since then. At the time I lived in Maple Valley and Paul was in Renton. I had a 130 reef with a protein skimmer that was over 6 feet tall and a DIY sump. My tank one 1st place in the King county aquarium society and Kitsap county aquarium societies (home shows). We were on the cutting edge back then most of the reefing was coming out of Germany.

Two guys started it with a news letter and monthly meetings at members homes. Their names are Paul Antonia and Brian Oliver. After that Bert Danner took it over.

I know who it was just wondering if anyone else does....

Does anyone know who started ths club?