Who got you started?

[Steve737]

Ex-girlfriends dad about 7 years ago.

He started up a 180 gallon SW, and I was hooked. At that point in time, I wasn't able to afford SW, so I went to PetSmart and got a 55. Put it on top of my triple dresser, and here I am. 7 years later.

 

[AquataHolic420]

My Uncle had a killer Managuensis and i loved watching him feed it, I wanted a tank.. then i got a gift from my uncle, 55G setup with everything i needed, cept fish... been hooked ever since..

 

[CHOMPERS]

...because they reminded her of sperm (we're perverts ). I caught myself staring at her...

What do these remind her of? And too much of a good thing can cause weight gain in the belly area.

 

[CHOMPERS]

The tadpole fairy was good to me this year. Good to my pbass too

 

[CHOMPERS]

The person who got me into the hobby was an unknown worker at the Dr. Pet Center in the Merritt Island Mall when I was a kid... They needed to make room and dumped some tanks in the parking lot. My brother and I scooped up some fish in cups from the near by trash can and took the fish home. My brother had an albino cory cat and I got a pregnant guppy. It turned into a large family of guppies

The guppies didn't last forever but they were replaced with some brook trout that we caught in a small stream down the road. The tank stayed empty after a move and then met its demise when my sister kicked the side in.

I was fishless until someone told me of a 100g tank in a guys back yard. I stopped by and offered him $200 for the tank and stand. It had a UGF that I fitted with power heads. I set it up as salt and went to the Florida Keys with my brother on a fish collecting trip. That tank was set up at the family business until after I had left the company. That tank is now in the back yard but it is now my brothers. It is empty

 

[robmcd]

Some Gangbanger that had monsters in his tank and we would feed thenm fingers here and their

Dude , thats just precious. You will be seeing that quote in my signature in the future. So f**king classic that I nearly pi$$ed myself.

 

[robmcd]

I used to keep S/A cichlids when I was a kid along with LMBs, Blugill, Crappie, and channel cats in a 40g then motocross took over. Was out of the hobby till 10 months ago (for 25 years), I sort of quit drinking(difficult when you are a bar manager) and my boss kicked me down a 29 with all the trimmings and some nice driftwood, got back into the S/A cichlids again. Now Im keeping like 6 tanks (as of this week) like 400 gallons of fish, mostly heavily plantedtanks. I just sort of put a little of the funds that I was spending on suds, and put them into fishkeeping. I also have NO problem kicking my friends whole 29g setups just to spread the addiction. Im already seeing some of them in this forum.
I do notice now how much things have changedin 25 years, the selection of fish and fish available are totally different. I dont think that flowerhorns, parrot cichlids, and any other god awful hybrid had even been cloned yet.

 

[Connor0729]

my family was renovating the basement in order to make me and my brother our own rooms that were seperated by a curtain. my mom said that we could put a fish tank in the middle of the rooms so that me and my brother could both see it. we went to petsmart and i said i wanted 2 oscars, 2 swordtails, 2 twig catfish, and some other fish. i wasn't buying anything then, i was just kinda dreaming. anyways, i get home and do some research and i decided that i wanted to breed oscars, and then festaes, and then my mom found 4 35 gallon tanks on eBay and told me to get them instead of a big tank. i am now saving for a nice 90 gallon tank.

 

[hurricane_redbone]

Always loved fish... always been fishing... didnt how to properly keep a tank untill about a year ago and now i cant get enough

 

[big train]

My father was a fish guy he bred goldfish bubble eyes shubunkin and comets aswell as koi in outdoor ponds and i grew up around them til age 6 then we moved and left all the fish and the hobby behind.When i was 14 i meet a new freind that liked amphibians and next thing i know i got newts and fire belly frogs pacman frogs that led to alot of lfs time.At this lfs they had a pair of the biggest meanist jags in the whole world i swear the big male looked like he was 2' but u know how things can look when u are a kid everything is big.At 15 i finaly talked my mom into letting me get a real tank and went to that lfs got a 55 and 2 of those awsome jag pairs baby's that inspired me so much i still have never seen a jag that can compair to those and may never will.