-design.com are all web projects of Jim Stime's Aquarium Design, an Aquarium maintenance company specializing in design, installation, and maintenance of marine fish and living coral reef Aquariums.
" This is my livelihood. This is my passion ! "
Aquarium Design was officially recognized by the State of California in 1995, but its true beginnings started back in 1982. At that time the saltwater hobby was in its beginnings and the reef Aquarium aspect of the hobby had just begun.
From 1982 to 1993 Jim Stime gathered a tremendous education by working part-time in various tropical fish shops, full-time for Marineland Aquarium Products and attending local Aquarium society meetings and national Aquarium conferences.
In 1993 Jim became the Aquarium service manager for Tidal Wave Tropical Fish, and by 1995 Aquarium Design was beginning to pursue Aquarium service accounts on its own.
Jim became president of the Marine Aquarium Society of Los Angeles in 1996, and during his tenure there he produced the largest marine Aquarium society web site, www.masla.com, and hosted the tenth annual Marine Aquarium Conference of North America in 1998, known as MACNA X. As a result of his involvement in the Aquarium hobby industry Jim was asked to be a speaker at the 1999 Marine Ornamentals conference in Kona Hawaii.
Since 1999 www.Aquarium-design.com has provide internet hobbyists with insight into marine Aquariums, and Aquarium Design, the maintenance company, has operated six and a half days a week providing service to over sixty Aquarium service customers. In the fall of 2000 Jim was hired on a weekly basis as the Aquarist for the Pt. Dume Marine Science Elementary School in Malibu California.
In the Summer of 2002 Aquarium Design entered into the Internets E-Commerce market with myfishtank.com. With Jim's knowledge of, and involvement in, the Aquarium industry myfishtank.com and Aquarium-design.com are now able to offer quality information, products, and service to a larger audience.
"I will not sell anything on my web site that I would not use myself, or in my own Aquarium".
