WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST TANK?!

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I had a 5 gal and a ten gallon with a corner air filter in then always had tadpoles crawdads little minnows baby bass or bluegill in and kept a lot of turtles...... i was maybe 4-8 when i had them my dad would always let then go after a few weeks...... im still jnto natives just no better than to release them back into the wild

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I started with this 5 months ago:

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See! We even have that same fake flower ornament. It's a 20 gallon setup with roughly 16 times water turnover. At the back of my mind, 2 fancy goldfish will be more than enough for this setup but I kept on adding more thinking I will be upgrading soon. There are 2 common plecos there. I did upgrade to a 125 gallon gallon custom and put them together with 6 more goldfish before moving to cichlids and then my current community.

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I had a 20g metaframe when I was little. My dad had 15+ years experience at that point so it was a pretty solid setup.
 
I had a 20g with crappy under gravel filter, blue gravel and fish I cant even recall. Killed them like crazy because I had no notion of water changes. Dont judge to harshly this was 20 years ago...
 
No pics, but from the late 80's to late 90's I had a GIGANTIC 20 gallon tank. :headbang2hehehe. I was a kid to teenager during that period so i occasionally even vacuumed it! The fish actually did really well and I had two deaths that I recall. I will put comments next to fish on stock list:

Angel Fish - 2, both the whole time.
Albino Cory-Cats - 1 of two died
Neon Tetras - If any died, I don't remember. They were always in there.
Rubber Snake - Decided he didn't want to be in the tank on the first night. Dead on the carpet the next morning
Bala Shark - Grew for a while and when he got bigger he started harrasing the Angels. After a couple of days of Fin nipping, the Angels decided he should die and in the morning I found the first and only ever perfect cartoonish fish skeleton on the bottom of the tank. They killed and ate him. Hells Angels? lol
 
majorhavok said:
Bala Shark - Grew for a while and when he got bigger he started harrasing the Angels. After a couple of days of Fin nipping, the Angels decided he should die and in the morning I found the first and only ever perfect cartoonish fish skeleton on the bottom of the tank. They killed and ate him. Hells Angels? lol
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This made my day! Hahaha! I love how you worded your angels' decision to execute the bala.
 
Redearsunfish said:
That's how I rolled in 78. Brown gravel what! Don't forget my undergravel filter powered by airstones for a filter.
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Redear, I am not kidding.. if you still had that tank setup I would try to buy it off of you. Retro is cool, especially when you dont realize down the road a few decades and it will be even cooler than it was new. You CANT buy that setup now and its a crying shame. And I bet that ugf worked just fine for that reasonably stocked tank too!

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Naos1984 said:
This made my day! Hahaha! I love how you worded your angels' decision to execute the bala.
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I miss those Angels.. :) They are so peaceful and calming to watch.. but they are vicious little river fish when they want to be. I like how they attack food on the surface and make the surface of the tank "boil".. good memories.. and that perfect fish skeleton.. lol :)

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August 2005 moving away yard sale find: $85 for a 55 gallon tank with two 15" pacu, four oscars and two foot long pleco. The pacu had difficulty turning around in that 12" wide tank. One oscar was already dying from HITH. Another oscar was severely stunted and deformed, probably from the horrific conditions he lived in most of his life. This is JDM at its worse.

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