went fishing about 25 years ago and pulled up an old fan belt with a pair of seahorses attached, 
into a bucket and then a tank at home with daily waterchanges, lived next to habour so was easy.  
No one else keeping marines so into the library, an old american book on keeping marines and away it went 
tropical marines started by swapping the local stuff i had to Harold in rotorua for tropical marines for his display tanks at the original wonderworld, thanks harold  
reefing started with gannet pestering me to set a tank up 
thanks gannet  
 
then thanks to all for the swaps and frags since then