I guess we all started the same way, you get your hands on a book full of beautiful fish or coral pictures and decide THAT’s what I want! In my case it was the first picture of the Resplendent dwarf angle fish (Centropyge respendens) I encountered in the famous book...

It helps a lot to have good friends who work in the industry and call you as soon as something arrives which might be of interest.  When Jörg Kokott called me and told me that an unusual sailfin goby arrived and that it was even two which seemed to be a pair, I got in...