Teaching your children about aquariums

[doomiedee]

Just dont do the mistake i did and smother your kid with fish to much when theyre little cause when theyre 8-9 theyre gonna be so sick if fish and fish stores. Truuuuust me. Let them ask questions and make it fun. But if your doing fish store to fish store to fish store hopping make sure you fit toys r us in there somewhere. My 8 old use to looove fish but now she only tolerates them. I force her so much to pick out fish and drag her to stores. My toddlers though loooove fish. They pick out their own fish and love naming them. Baby steps.


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I wont somther him since I only have one tank and a pond in his room witch I'm gunna sell to make for his stuff. Most the time I'm getting somthered by my neices and nephews with endless questions. My youngest nephew told me I should be a fish doctor (marine biologist ) cause I know so much about fish. I was the same way with my dad. There was a while when all I did was feed our fish and was more interested in my snake and other things. Lol ill keep that toys r us thing in mind. Hopefully by the time he's old enough for that ill still be working there.

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[doomiedee]

This is my son at 3 months playing with my midevil before I gave her away. She pasted just last week. I thought it was weird cause the day she pasted my son was being cranky.

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[Rafini]

My dad always had tanks and he had african cichlids when i was younger. I wanted to join in and he got me a little 20 gallon to put guppies and tropicals in there. I enjyoed that but after a while I wanted to keep cichlids like my dad was, so I started keeping and breeding tangynikan cichlids because they are smaller (this was around 12-13 in age) from there I progressed to CA/SA cichlids when my dad gave me his 90gal breeder so he could convert to marine. over the years I've kept at least every kind of tank once and have learnt a lot from it.
I do feel like as a kid it gave me something in common with my dad and allowed us to get a bit closer. and then he ran off with another woman and stole our car and everything from our house one day, and never paid support or anything. I suppose the moral of the story is Dad's aren't forever, but fish keeping is!

 

[fresh864]

mine are afraid of fish

 

[clekchau]

mine like feeding them but thats it

 

[doomiedee]

My dad always had tanks and he had african cichlids when i was younger. I wanted to join in and he got me a little 20 gallon to put guppies and tropicals in there. I enjyoed that but after a while I wanted to keep cichlids like my dad was, so I started keeping and breeding tangynikan cichlids because they are smaller (this was around 12-13 in age) from there I progressed to CA/SA cichlids when my dad gave me his 90gal breeder so he could convert to marine. over the years I've kept at least every kind of tank once and have learnt a lot from it.
I do feel like as a kid it gave me something in common with my dad and allowed us to get a bit closer. and then he ran off with another woman and stole our car and everything from our house one day, and never paid support or anything. I suppose the moral of the story is Dad's aren't forever, but fish keeping is!

Wow that's really sad to read.

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[kevbc03]

awesomeness; hope one day when i have children they will also have a passion for this hobby.

same here. thats awesome