As soon as I'm out... they pull me back in!
I been keeping fish constantly for 29 years. The sickness started when I was 8 and I am now 40. I've always had at least one tank, as many as 20 at one time but usually 3-4.
My last house I had a 75, (2) 125's and a 300. We sold that house and broke down the tanks for showing the home and sold them since my new house took a year to build. After 3 years (the longest) I've been without fish.....ah, no dreaded water changes no feeding schedules, it was nice.
I've decided to get back in the hobby since I have a very handsome 75 gallon stand that my late father in-law and I made together, its sentimental. Its a nice setup I have some Rainbows, Denison Barbs, Some Keyholes and Corys.
I convinced the wife if she let me have an aquarium I wouldn't "get carried away" again. Well she had to go on a work trip and a fish got ich, so I "had" to go buy a 20 gallon hospital tank. So now I have two tanks. So, I decorated the 20 gallon to a nice second tank. Now I am a cichlid guy through and through. So of course I had to call Jeff Rapps and order 7 future tank busters to get my cichlid fix. And having a cycled 20 was just too easy to put them in.
You can probably see where this is going. Well once these guys get bigger they will need a bigger home and fast! So I got a killer deal on a 125g stand so I bought it today. Went to the local fish shop and was pricing a tank for it.... He offered me a killer deal on a 180g setup-lids, tank and stand. So I buy it. An hour later a 125 shows up on Craigslist, minutes later its mine. Thanks 305 gallons in 2 hours folks!
When we finished the basement in the new house I told her, "lets put a 600 gallon in the wall with a fish room behind it, all the plumbing etc etc." She said no! I want a bedroom there. So there is a bedroom there, or should I say was, now there will be a 180, 125, 75 and 20.
Well, fellow fish-aholic's, I'm back and I too, have a problem.
I been keeping fish constantly for 29 years. The sickness started when I was 8 and I am now 40. I've always had at least one tank, as many as 20 at one time but usually 3-4.
My last house I had a 75, (2) 125's and a 300. We sold that house and broke down the tanks for showing the home and sold them since my new house took a year to build. After 3 years (the longest) I've been without fish.....ah, no dreaded water changes no feeding schedules, it was nice.
I've decided to get back in the hobby since I have a very handsome 75 gallon stand that my late father in-law and I made together, its sentimental. Its a nice setup I have some Rainbows, Denison Barbs, Some Keyholes and Corys.
I convinced the wife if she let me have an aquarium I wouldn't "get carried away" again. Well she had to go on a work trip and a fish got ich, so I "had" to go buy a 20 gallon hospital tank. So now I have two tanks. So, I decorated the 20 gallon to a nice second tank. Now I am a cichlid guy through and through. So of course I had to call Jeff Rapps and order 7 future tank busters to get my cichlid fix. And having a cycled 20 was just too easy to put them in.
You can probably see where this is going. Well once these guys get bigger they will need a bigger home and fast! So I got a killer deal on a 125g stand so I bought it today. Went to the local fish shop and was pricing a tank for it.... He offered me a killer deal on a 180g setup-lids, tank and stand. So I buy it. An hour later a 125 shows up on Craigslist, minutes later its mine. Thanks 305 gallons in 2 hours folks!
When we finished the basement in the new house I told her, "lets put a 600 gallon in the wall with a fish room behind it, all the plumbing etc etc." She said no! I want a bedroom there. So there is a bedroom there, or should I say was, now there will be a 180, 125, 75 and 20.
Well, fellow fish-aholic's, I'm back and I too, have a problem.
