Hi, my name is Jeff I am a reef-aholic. I currently live in the Kansas City metropolitan area and own a small real estate investment company there. I have been married for over 20 years and have two teenage children.

I’ve been keeping aquaria off and on for about 25 years. My very first tank was a 20-gallon “loaner” aquarium used to conduct a hermit crab behavior study when I was still in school. I lived in Stamford, CT at the time and simply went down to the local beach and came home with some sand, rock and a bunch of hermit crabs. After the paper was written, I enjoyed keeping the critters so much that I kept the tank going for a while with various crabs, macro-algae’s, stars; pretty much whatever I could find in the tide pools at the local beach.

After that first aquarium, I kept a number of mostly freshwater tanks before again entering into the world of marine/reef tanks. Since then, I’ve kept tanks which have included many different approaches including a cold-water tank with local specimens (this when I lived in Washington State and had access to livestock from the Strait of Juan De Fuca).

When I moved back to the Midwest from Washington in mid 2007, I got rid of all of my livestock and most of my equipment. I initially setup a small tank after moving but that didn’t last long and in February 2008 I came across a deal on the current 125gallon tank and stand that I just couldn’t pass up! In addition to the 125-gallon reef tank there is also a 12-gallon nano reef and a 10-gallon freshwater-planted tank in my home.