[Bob J]

Okay, where'd you get the critters?

[Henchster]

At the time I had a friend who was a wholesaler of saltwater stuff, and I got him to order all the fish, corrals and sharks for me, at a pretty nice discount off retail.

Some of the local sharks (Leopards, Smoothhounds) were caught local by another friend. The Garibaldi came from Mexico, but we released him here locally after they banned them from being collected.

The tank was 10'x4'x4' and the bio filter/protein skimmer/chiller-heaters/pumps/UV lights/Ozone generator/electronics took up half my two-car garage. Needless to say, it took a lot of work every day, and drained my Swiss bank account.

Unfortunately, the great quake of '94 turned my whole living room into a saltwater tidepool. Forunately, very few critters were lost, I had cleared the tank of corrals and most everything else except my breeding Hawaiian Dragon Moray eels, (of which one actually survived, eels are hearty!) for a Bonnethead shark I was going to put in there.

OK, enough for the thread, FReepmail me if you want any more info. Cheers! (as he lifts his beer glass) ....Henchster