how did u get into the hobby of monster fish.I started off with africans and ended up within the next two years with reddevils,pikes and buttikoferi.
love for monster fish
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I have always loved animals in general, and, especially, predators- big ones. I was fascinated by dinosaurs as a child (my favorite was the T-rex, of course) and would beg my parents to take my to the zoo and aquarium to see big preds like tiger, lions, sharks, etc. When I was 10, I got to hold a Burmese Python! The love kept growing!!
For my 10th b-day, my parents bought me a 10 gallon tank. My dad and I bonded over setting it up, and we'd go to the LFS and buy the Noah's Ark Special, 2 of everything that looked cool. Not suprisingly, most of our stuff died, and the tank went out in a yard sale.
A few years later, in high school, I convinced them to get me a tank again, and this time, I maintained it. I still have the original Kuhli Loaches that were in that tank. They are nearly 9 years old now! So that was the beginning of my true passion for fish. I ended up majoring in fisheries biology in college, and kept bettas and other community fish in my dorm/apartment.
Now I teach HS biology, and over the past two years, have begun to make my room look as though a bio room should. The classroom has afforded me space that my parents never did, and so I now have larger tanks than ever before, including one 75 gallon mbuna tank. The Monster Fish craze is growing stronger in me, and I just recently purchased my first (soon to be) monsters- a Senegal Bichir in Feb or March of 06, and an African Brown Knife Fish in August. They are growing like weeds, and the desire for "more, larger, and meaner" is spiraling out of control.
I could stop it, but why bother?? I like being crazy!!
For my 10th b-day, my parents bought me a 10 gallon tank. My dad and I bonded over setting it up, and we'd go to the LFS and buy the Noah's Ark Special, 2 of everything that looked cool. Not suprisingly, most of our stuff died, and the tank went out in a yard sale.
A few years later, in high school, I convinced them to get me a tank again, and this time, I maintained it. I still have the original Kuhli Loaches that were in that tank. They are nearly 9 years old now! So that was the beginning of my true passion for fish. I ended up majoring in fisheries biology in college, and kept bettas and other community fish in my dorm/apartment.
Now I teach HS biology, and over the past two years, have begun to make my room look as though a bio room should. The classroom has afforded me space that my parents never did, and so I now have larger tanks than ever before, including one 75 gallon mbuna tank. The Monster Fish craze is growing stronger in me, and I just recently purchased my first (soon to be) monsters- a Senegal Bichir in Feb or March of 06, and an African Brown Knife Fish in August. They are growing like weeds, and the desire for "more, larger, and meaner" is spiraling out of control.
I could stop it, but why bother?? I like being crazy!!
I had a tank when I was younger, but then I got away from it for a while almost 10 years or so? Then I started a nice 10 gallon planted with some small fish, then it exploded to a much larger addiction.
well i started a few years ago with a 10 galllon. i got a 29 salt setup for christmas a few years after but my parents said there wasnt room so i just kept the 10 then after another yeah my aunt gave me a 20 long(which i still have) set it up, about about 6 months redid the tank and made it planted. then a year when by and now i have a 75. and am trying to convince my parents into letting me get a pood, i want indoor but i dont think i have the room.
my dads a fish nut so I have grown up around it as a kid and my dad always lett my brother and I have a tank of are own
