When did you start to become a MFKer?

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cichlaguapote;1258618; said:
Wow I didn't start til a few years ago. But I wanted to say I think MFK is more about spirit than tank size.
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Kinda, sorta...NOT. Must have tank size to truely go ]V[onster.
 
By highschool, I'd built my 1st plywood tank (900 gals) for a bonded pair of silver aros
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Did they make babies?
 
Oddball;1258545; said:
My Dad had a good size aquarium when I was a tot. The 125 went to me when I was 6 (my actual 1st aquarium was a Gallo wine bottle with a mud-nose dace and a tadpole) when he upgraded. By junior high I had 4 aquariums with the 125 being the smallest. The largest was a nearly 2k gal concrete pond with a front view port (actually, it was my Mom's koi pond but, I took care of it and stocked it). By highschool, I'd built my 1st plywood tank (900 gals) for a bonded pair of silver aros.
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Wow, you are so lucky!

I started keeping fish when I was maybe 5 or so, but those were goldfish in a bowl...didn't last very long. I got my first aquarium (10g) when I was about 8 years old.
 
lol, Last year, when I was 12 I got two 10 gals, this year I scored myself a 70 gal! Yay, But now i am in 330 $ debt.
 
This is definatly a case where size DOES mater....

If you can't swim with the big fish....then your tanks too small....
 
Well it is a spirit, but somewhere along the line you have to have either a fish or tank thats bigger than the average, or at least a burning desire to get them ;)
 
Ive always had an aquarium from the age of 5. It took me until I was about 12 to acquire a tank as large as 10gallons(i had a 5G and a 2G globe looking thing before that) I thought that was rockin. I then got my 35G(i still have and use) from a garage sale and bought myself some angelfish and started breeding. Later bought a small petshop out with profits made from selling my angels to various LFS...bought a group of oscars and got a mated pair of those and sold the rest. Kept that pair in a 125G tank and really made some nice profit from their spawnings as they always produced really attractive offspring. I then got into discus which bought me my 150G and 100G custom built tanks when i sold their first couple of broods. I guess the final weeding out of small fish was a winter power outage in 2005 which eradicated almost every fish I had, and I had alot was running atleast 3000G plus a few rubbermaids for fry grow outs. Ive drastically cut back now...and actually enjoy it more. Fish are more fun when there isnt a constant pending burdon of having to do tank work for atleast 3-4 hours a day every day. :)
 
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