my story from guppies to MFK

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puffcrusader696

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Hi everyone! This is my story:

I humbly started out asking for a small tank for christmas 3 years ago when i was elleven, almost twelve. My parents reluctantly tried to find a quiet one with no gurgeling sounds. They found the BiOrb, by ReefOne. It was 8 gallons. I loved it. Then, as most inexperienced fishkeepers do, I put two fish together that couldn't mix. Then it all began. I got a rosy red feeder my friend bought for me and he tried to eat my neon tetra. So I put the feeder in a bottle. Then i got him a 1.5gallon hex tank.Then I won two goldfish from the fair. They started in a fishbowl, but not long after got their own 2.5 gallon tank. Then I had another fish that didnt get along with any of them. He got a makeshift tank from a tupperware containter. (less than a gallon). Then I got my GSP (Puff). He tried to eat my beloved ghost shrimp :( so he got his own fishbowl. Then about a 7 gallon tupperware container. Then finally a 10 gallon where he spent about 7 months. I moved my other fish into a 14 gallon. So I had an 8 gallon BiOrb, a 10 gallon for a GSP, and a 14 gallon tank for everything else. I asked for a 20 gallon planted tank for Christmas the next year. I got it for my birthday (Feb. 17th). The plants were a bust (my tank looked like dense fog from too much CO2) and all the plants died with luckily no fish yet. I moved my 10 gal to under the 20 gal on the metal stand. Turned it to saltwater (slowly). Then got puff a friend (walter) who was a Black Saddled Toby. Then i got a 20L for my two puffers but ended up getting 3 GSPs from wal-mart (oops!). two died within a week and the other tragically died being sucked into the pump :(. Then i moved Puff and Walter into it. Puff lived the rest of his life in there and succumed to a parasite at age 2 being only 1 inch long (i cried... he was my best bud). At the end of Puff's life i got him a 55 gallon which he spent his last hour in. Now Walter is living happily in that while the 10 gallon has one dwarf puffer in it and i got another 10 gallon for my "sex addicts" guppies as my mom calls them. I plan to turn my 55 into a reef tank and my 20L into a nano reef. Now i am asking for a 210 gallon for Christmas this year (age 14) for a colony of Frontosa. And i hope to get a 150 gallon reef tank later on. That is my story. :D

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Part of it was difficult to read, would help if you broke them up into paragraphs.

Keep reading on here and you should be fine and really think about what a fish needs before you decide to buy it.

I went from a 10gal my parents got me when I was 12, to a free 20 gal from a friend when I was 23, to a free 125gal from aunt/uncle, and now at 31, 10gal (not the one my parents got me) 20gal, 30gal, 40gal, 75gal, 180gal, 240gal, and 300gal. I would like to replace the 300 with a 600-750gal in the next 2 years or so.
 
Interesting, gotta love how people start out and end up just wanting more...more...more ahaha. I myself started with natives then moved up tank sizes and finally decided not to be cheap and actually buy some fish from the store ahahaha.

By the way, i love dwarf puffers! you got a pic?
 
Cool story but it sounds like you need ot learn how to take care of fish better, too many fish dying and too many being put in wrong tanks/containers. If you want these huge tanks and all these fish, you might just end up wasting all your money if you cant keep them alive.


Sorry, I am not trying to be mean, and I know you are a kid. When I was younger I made mistakes like you did. Educate youeslf a little more before jumping into big projects. It will save you money and heartache.
 
Pyramid_Party;2424597; said:
Cool story but it sounds like you need ot learn how to take care of fish better, too many fish dying and too many being put in wrong tanks/containers. If you want these huge tanks and all these fish, you might just end up wasting all your money if you cant keep them alive.


Sorry, I am not trying to be mean, and I know you are a kid. When I was younger I made mistakes like you did. Educate youeslf a little more before jumping into big projects. It will save you money and heartache.


i can take care of them better now because ive learned from all the mistakes. all my fish now are very happy and alive with the right tanks except for my goldfish... mainly because nobody will take them and give them a tank they need. theyve already outgrown their 14 gallon...

and sadly one died today from an infection i think was in the stomache and ate its way out. i noticed nothing until he was up against the intake today with a hole in his stomache... :( he was the nice looking one too. :( :(
 
Ben268;2424569; said:
Interesting, gotta love how people start out and end up just wanting more...more...more ahaha. I myself started with natives then moved up tank sizes and finally decided not to be cheap and actually buy some fish from the store ahahaha.

By the way, i love dwarf puffers! you got a pic?

no sorry no pics until i get a photo program for my computer. it just crashed so i gotta reload all the programs and i gotta get one. i cant store them on my computer and they for some reason wont transfer to here :confused: but ill upload one when i get software. i love them too :)
 
Cool, atleast you are learning. Im no expert either, and I still learn everyday. Certain fish I know about and some I dont. SO for now I stick with the ones I am good with. But I dont think theres 1 person who keeps fish, that never made bad mistakes when they started. What kinda stuff do you wanna stock in the bigger tanks?
 
Same here Puff, I got my first tank at the age of 15, asking for a 55 gal, got a 29 gallon starter kit instead, was way more than happy with it though. Got some convicts,(bred them) life way great. Took a year hiatus till I was 16, lol and stole my bro's 10 gallon and got some cories, then a few guppies and a apple snail, way too boring for me. Then I just slowly collected tanks and now at 19 yrs. old. I have my beloved 29(not convicts though) a 20 long a few 10's and my 56, which doesn't have any fish in it actually(has African Clawed Frogs). I'm getting a rack system now that will hold 10 more tanks, so yeah Puff I am with you too. Just can't stop, lol. :headbang2
 
that is similar to many fishkeepers, just learning from mistakes to become a good fishkeeper
 
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