my mom let me have a "tropical fish" aquarium when i was a kid.. i think about 10? we had neons, and head and tail lights, and algae eaters..
when those fish died off after a few years.. i think the last one died when i was about 16 i never got another fish till i met my hubby. He had a big piranha that liked me because i gave him good food, not nasty cichlid sticks.. lol.
After Jaws died we decided to do something with the big new tank we bought for him but he never got to live in.. and i met my first peacock bass..