How much experience and knowledge do you have in fish keeping

[Red Devil]

23 years now for me. I got my first tank, a 10 gallon when I was 10 years old for Christmas. I have been hooked ever since. I started out with community fish and turned to an Oscar as my first cichlid. Now at age 33 I still am as addicted as ever. My students in my classroom love my tanks though!

Thats great..because of you they'll be a few more fishkeepers in the future.. sometimes parents just are not interested in teaching their kids so it is a good opportunity that you can introduce them to it.

 

[Red Devil]

Started with my first 10 gallon tank when I was 8, which got Ich about a month later due to having a pictus cat, puffer fish, several bubble face gold fish, and god knows what else I thought would fit in there.

Picked the hobby back up when I was 12 and started breeding convicts, which quickly escalated into an obsession with South American cichlids.

I'm now 26 and haven't ever really left the hobby, I definately took a hiatus while I was in the Army, but still had tanks being taken care of back home.

I specialize in discus, apistogramma, dwarf cichlids and other types of semi-peaceful SA's.

I've bred just about everything under the sun that's commonly available, including discus, zebra pleco's, angelfish, apistogramma, blue ram, bolivian ram, and so on and so on.

Still learning a lot, and glad I found this site as it's got some truely hardcore hobbyists in terms of dedication and monster tanks. Which I had not found before.

Wow i know where to go to ask some questions .. anyone who has bred all of these is someone to admire and seek knowledge from.. i am glad you found this site toooo.. we need you!

 

[Red Devil]

I've only been keeping fish for around 20 months but have always been familiar with underwater biology.
Before I kept fish, I didn't know what my true calling was. It went from skateboarding, to building, to BMX, But I truely know now that fishkeeping will last forever with me.

I think fishkeeping will be a part of your life too...

 

[Tongue33]

I know just enough to K.I.S.S

 

[Red Devil]

I know just enough to K.I.S.S

Thats all you need to know..

 

[rmorse]

0 experience...I'm just here for the lounge

 

[Red Devil]

0 experience...I'm just here for the lounge

 

[artemis1]

Many years. I started off with a ten gallon tank, then I had two, then a twenty, and so on until I had six tanks I breed livebearers then (for fun, after a while they all died), and eventually got a 55 gallon which I still have right now. I kept lots of other aquatic life like frogs and crustaceans for a while tool. I especially love large catfish, arowanas, big cichlids (especially oscars and pbass), plecos, rays, saltwater and odballs Don't like coldwater, natives, or "freak of nature" type fish like batman rays.

0 experience...I'm just here for the lounge

LOL

 

[Red Devil]

Many years. I started off with a ten gallon tank, then I had two, then a twenty, and so on until I had six tanks I breed livebearers then (for fun, after a while they all died), and eventually got a 55 gallon which I still have right now. I kept lots of other aquatic life like frogs and crustaceans for a while tool. I especially love large catfish, arowanas, big cichlids (especially oscars and pbass), plecos, rays, saltwater and odballs Don't like coldwater, natives, or "freak of nature" type fish like batman rays.




LOL

i love large catfish too.. they are always active and into trouble but beautiful.. you have come along way...

 

[twhittle]

Thats great..because of you they'll be a few more fishkeepers in the future.. sometimes parents just are not interested in teaching their kids so it is a good opportunity that you can introduce them to it.

Very true...all four of my kids 8 months to 8 years love my tanks.