Who brought you into the fold?

[Fat Homer]

Technically it was my dad that got me into the hobby, considering theres always been a fish tank at home since before i could even remember...

 

[Toby_H]

My dad/parents had fish since before I was born...

They let me take over care of the family tank in the living room when I was 7...

I got my own tank in my own room when I was 8...

I've had tanks for 22 out of the last 27 years since then...

I've recently gottena little burnt out and have downsized to 350 gal of tanks... Well aquariums. I also have a couple hundred gallons worth of Vivariums and a several hundred gallon reptile (Tegu) enclosure...

But I'm not at all addicted, I can stop anytime I want to *twitch* I just don't want to *twitch*twitch*

 

[MonsterMinis]

Grandpa use to take us fishing, Dad kept saltwater and told me stories of breeding african cichlids and Angels when he was a teen. I wanted my own tank.. so mom didn't say no when he got me a 10 for x-mas one year.. so both.. but I was inspired by my dad and grandpa to have interest in fish.

 

[krichardson]

It was a co worker at a job I was at years ago.

 

[Red Devil]

you should add on the poll... husband or wife.... my husband.... he has been in the hobby since he was a child...

 

[BC1]

My girlfriend told me about fish as a way to get me to bond with to her fish crazy father. I always had reptiles and never really cared too much for her father. Now she is mad because because every time we visit her parents, her father and I ignore everything and everyone else and talk about aquariums and fish.

 

[MommyJulia]

my friend did. He had a small tank and I liked it. So he went with me when I bought my first tank which was a tiny 6g started tank. And then....it all began...lol.

 

[Madding]

Myself working part-time at an LFS when I was young.

 

[dogofwar]

What was responsible for folks taking it to the next level (going from one or two tanks to a fishroom, joining fish clubs, etc.)?

Matt

 

[Loves severums]

when i first found my ungles old tank. i put some pond fish in it.