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    New member from Gainesville, FL

    Hey guys!

    My name is Nick and I moved down here to Orlando for graduate school in December, but didn't know about this forum until now. I'm 24 and grew up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for much of my childhood. In fact, I became PADI scuba certified when I was 13 in Cuba and began collecting my first - and very unfortunate - reef fish, inverts, and corals (Cuba's reefs are pristine!). Since then, I've kept saltwater reef tanks and have even operated my own legitimate (wholesale/retail/FWC/business licenses) sustainable coral-growing operation to help supply the hobby with responsibly-grown corals. Anyway, I currently have a 65g reef tank set up in my apartment downtown and I am still in the process of stocking it. I have visited Sea in the City, Ocean Blue, and Top Shelf Aquatics, as well as World Wide Corals so far. Am I missing any good ones that I don't know about? I look forward to attending meetings and doing some trades. Thanks for reading!

    -Nick

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    Welcome to ORCA forums Nick.

    We are fortunate to have such a good selection of LFS, all the ones you named are good, Living Reef in the east side of Orlando is also a good one.

    If you still do scuba diving we also have a group of scuba divers and we are very active during summer.

    I hope you can make it to one of the meetings some day, you'll have fun !!!

    Bienvenido
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    Welcome Nick. Yes, we have great LFS here in Orlando. You might want to attend Coral Con later this month. We are having a club meeting at David's school after the show that Saturday night. You can check out the schools 300 gallon tank.

    http://www.o-r-c-a.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21660

    We also have a great group of experienced divers. We had a dive almost every weekend this last summer. When's the last time you went diving?
    Last edited by Chip; 10-13-2014 at 02:01 PM.

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