I would have to say my s. dad,he had a 55 gal. comm. tank,a 40 gal with 2 red bellys,and a 20 gal with feeders. I learned from him and after taking care of his tanks for him he bought me a 10 gal and i took off from there. I still have the 10 gal he bought me 20 years ago along with my 20,40 125 ,and 220,this hobby is as bad as drugs cant get enough and i always want BIGGER.
How did you get started in the hobby?
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I started fish keeping late, it is around 2002 Spring. I started with a betta in the bowl which I got it from petco. and then I was trying to collect every color avaiable. I ended it up with around 30 different bowls of betta in 1 month. and then I started to interested in breeding bettas. that is when I bought my firsst aquarium(33 gallons). Since then my love for fishes grows day by day. Now I have 7 tanks - 2 tanks for dwarf cichlid, 1 for commnuity peaceful fishes, 4 for CA/SA cichlids. and I love this hobby. 
My interest in fish was small up until my little sister came home with a fancy goldfish. I had a betta and a goldfish before, but those were only my first fish when I was really young. I hadn't thought about getting any fish since my betta died. Unfortunately, all we had to offer that poor goldfish was a bowl to live in. After that first fancy goldfish died, my sister and I both purchased a single "feeder" goldfish. They got sick in the bowl and, at mid-way point in owning them, my dad offered me an actual fish tank! I was hooked. Those two goldfish were placed in a 5 and a half gallon tank where they were treated for ick. My fish died, but my sister's fish lived slightly longer. I added 10 more feeder goldfish who slimmed down to 5 plus a 6th one added later. To this day, I still have those six. But now I'm MUCH more experienced in fish keeping and I know what I'm doing. I wasn't going to settle for goldfish, so now I have a growing collection of fish tanks........LOL!!
My beginning with fishkeeping started the typical way, a feeder golfish and a bowl when I was young, like 6. Except the feeder fish grew huge and lived for a considerably long time.
thus began my facsination, and alot more tanks.
thus began my facsination, and alot more tanks.
Howdy,
my dad got me started, he had downsized from his 50 gal tank to a 15 gal after the old one broke and my mom vetoed another big tank. Thus, he set up a 15 gal and handed it to me, passing on the passion. It had a golden angelfish, a Siamese algae eater, a kuhlii loach and a single Gymnocorymbus ternetzi in there. I must have been 5 when this happened. I cannot remember when I eventually was in complete charge of the tank, my dad phased out his helping hand support slowly and wisely.
Yeah, to my old man!
HarleyK
My father has always kept fish some of my first memory’s were being sat in front off fish tanks he specialised in breading Tetras and showing fish I took a half hearted interest in it for years having a community tank breading a few angles and the odd pond. Then 10 years ago my father was diagnoses with Glaucoma to help him keep with the hobby I would go round there (as his sight got worse) clean tanks run him to shows slowly I started to take tanks over and showing fish my self. Then about 7 years ago bought my first Snakehead well that’s when it all went
The same for me thanks Dad
I really don't know what drove me to do this but I had a 10 gallon tank left over from a turtle I used to have but one day I just decided to fill it with water and fish. That was almost two years ago but I feal like I've been in this forever.
I started back in 7th grade with a fish bowl and 2 gold fish from k-mart. They grew so big and fast that my dad bought me a 10gal tank. i kept most of the common new world cichlids Oscars, JD's etc but when i joined the military i had to give them up. Now that i'm more settled i'm back at it full force with 4 tanks going right now 30 gal -90gal and 150gal on order.
My dad always liked fish, he got a 6 foot tank with some oscars etc when I was a kid, and then soon after that transferred the O's into another tank, we used to always go out to fish stores and look at the predators, one day we came home with a baby micropeltes and put it in the 6 footer. That's how my love of predatory fish and channas started.
