Me and a buddy first got into fish keeping when we walked into a petco and thought it'd be cool to grab a couple small tanks and bettas. I had had fish before but nothing I maintained on my own. However, me and my buddy turned down different paths. I slowly moved my way up to my current 350 gallon, and my friend stayed with a 15 gallon tank that has seen many miscellaneous small fish. I got monsters and he got small pretty fish lol. Anybody else have an experience competing with friend's in fish keeping, or had a mentor starting out with an interesting story?
Anybody have a rival? Or a mentor in the hobby?
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Well my start in fish keeping has been since day one. My dad has always kept fish mostly small community fish but for as long as I could remember. But I got to say my mentor and great friend has got to be sandy (dispatch327) she was the first person that I had met when I first go serious about keeping fish. When ever I needed anything she has always helped me out. She even got me to sign up for Mfk.
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I used to have a light rivalry with one of my friend. We both started with 10 gallons back in high school and got quickly bored. We would drive around LFS every week end and look for cool new fishes. We got bored of our 10 gallons and upgraded to 55 gallons tanks from Walmart. He got a 6-7 inch silver arowana and I refused to get one, knowing how big these guys could grow. I was always switching between oscars, flowerhorns and cichlids instead. I remember he once told me why I kept "bluegills" in my tank when I had a paratilapia polleni in it while he had a "dragon descendant" in his. We both wanted to upgrade our tanks to bigger ones but we couldn't afford new tank setups. We were still around 20 and lived with our parents. I got a 240 gallons off Craigslist but my friend's parents would not let him have anything bigger than his 55g and he decided to stick with it. He kinda ignore my tank when coming over and we stopped shopping around. I was able to raise a few "rare" fishes here in CA but all my friend could say was "That's some cool fishes. I'm thinking about going saltwater. Forget freshwater".
To speed things up, his saltwater tank dream was short-lived after too many failed attempts trying to set up a reef-tank. He tried to lead me into competing with him and going into saltwater with this argument: "Dude, it's easier to setup a saltwater tank with your big tank". Seeing all the trouble he had, I never thought about switching to saltwater. Monster Keeper for life.
To speed things up, his saltwater tank dream was short-lived after too many failed attempts trying to set up a reef-tank. He tried to lead me into competing with him and going into saltwater with this argument: "Dude, it's easier to setup a saltwater tank with your big tank". Seeing all the trouble he had, I never thought about switching to saltwater. Monster Keeper for life.
That would be a nice sigbature/quote. Anywho. Mentor would be my father. Rival would be my cousin. That's all
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I had a rival on here once who I somehow offended and would try to report me for everything I ever said. He ended up getting himself banned for harassing me for his reporting my every post though.
