... first time poster... I think.
Either way, I'm introducing myself.
I've kept aquariums since the age of 10, totaling 17 years of fish keeping. I started with a 1 gallon tank. It had three Zebra Danios and a Chinese algae eater. My dad thought I was getting a fish bowl when I asked permission. My sister and I showed up with a 20-gallon and he sent us back to the store to return everything and get something smaller. He always had trouble with fish, and assumed I would too.
After a long period of community fish and updating to bigger tanks and better systems I eventually graduated to African and South American Cichlidae. My love for fish spread to the outdoors and eventually designed and built a 115-gallon above ground wooden pond. At one point I had over 200 gallons of fish spread across 4 tanks and the pond.
Recently I have had to move several times, and with each move I lose a little water (lol).
I only have a 44-gallon corner tank now and my pond is empty on my patio.
I'm going to be moving again, and I hope to be waste deep into the aquarium lifestyle once I am settled in my final state of choice.
Here are some pictures I dug up:
http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/mixmaster71/fish/
Either way, I'm introducing myself.
I've kept aquariums since the age of 10, totaling 17 years of fish keeping. I started with a 1 gallon tank. It had three Zebra Danios and a Chinese algae eater. My dad thought I was getting a fish bowl when I asked permission. My sister and I showed up with a 20-gallon and he sent us back to the store to return everything and get something smaller. He always had trouble with fish, and assumed I would too.
After a long period of community fish and updating to bigger tanks and better systems I eventually graduated to African and South American Cichlidae. My love for fish spread to the outdoors and eventually designed and built a 115-gallon above ground wooden pond. At one point I had over 200 gallons of fish spread across 4 tanks and the pond.
Recently I have had to move several times, and with each move I lose a little water (lol).
I only have a 44-gallon corner tank now and my pond is empty on my patio.
I'm going to be moving again, and I hope to be waste deep into the aquarium lifestyle once I am settled in my final state of choice.
Here are some pictures I dug up:
http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/mixmaster71/fish/
to MFK xmixmasterx! lol. When i was in high school, I was working at a golf n carts. i got my first paycheck and went straight to my lfs. I picked up a 30g tank. Brought it home, and right back to the lfs. My parents made me return it.
I know how you feel. Now i got a 180g and a 60g.