We had ciclid tanks a couple of years ago and still had the tank laying around. I was looking for pumps ect since those were in bad shape. I found a 40g reef ready in the paper for $60. It only had 2 x 96w pc and a marineland 400 but that was enough to get started. Last october I believe I started collecting stuff but I started at the bottom finding all my info on the internet about anything that interested me and of course those searches lead to something else.