I have been a scuba diver since I was a kid. My dad used to take me to the Caribbean and the Red Sea (we lived all over the world). Scuba diving was an obsession for me, and then when I "grew up" and moved to Arizona where there is no ocean nearby, I missed it, and setting up a saltwater tank seemed to be the closest thing to it. I moved to AZ when I was 20 and set up my first tank shortly after. There were a few years in between where I didn't have a tank at all because I didn't have the space or the money, but I set up a tank again 2 1/2 years ago.