Your 1st real tank.
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If you know what you're on about then you'll be accepted. I joined as a mostly clueless 14 Y/O but I think nowadays I have at least some credibility.I never made my age very public. I dropped a clue here and there but never said directly what it was. Did say I was a minor a few times. I did this because I wanted people to see me for my knowledge and not my age. Once people find out you're young people tend to view what they say in a "he probably has no idea what he's talking about" view.
Since I've successfully had at least one person not be able to tell my age through my posts, you, I will make my age public. I am 17 lol. Also yes, I do talk a lot. It's rather easy when they're so many good people here and so many questions and discussions to talk about.
If you have good and thorough info then you will be. Good luck with your project! A knife of mine has shown an ovipositor but haven't seen any breeding behaviour thus far.
I agree withGreat threadBertie07 were so young lol.
My first tank was roughly about 18-20 years ago (starting to feel old now). It was a 20 g that a family friend gave to me with some odds and ends to get started. At first I wasn’t allowed to even get fish so I started with a Fw crab. Then the crab needed a friend so we bought 3 neon tetras because my mom thought they looked cool. I originally wanted fish so I could have piranhas but the lfs people said not to start with them but to work my way up from easier to care for fish like community. So I bought a 10 g with swordtails, mollies, red tail shark and some dwarf frogs. After a few weeks I had 3 tanks and 1 had a red bellied piranha because lfs said 20g min for each rb. As I got bored with the fish I had I slowly started to see which of the fish I could feed to the p, including the frog.
Eventually I came home one day from school and found that the original 20 g had cracked and leaked out all but about a cm of water in my room (upstairs). At the time I collected marvel masterpiece cards and had a huge collection of the foils so it was over $1000 worth of cards that were in the dresser the fish tank was on. I was pretty devastated and stopped collecting the cards but kept going with fish but I learned a very important lesson to ensure your tank is completely level to avoid cracks and strains. I think there was a solo crayfish in that tank at the time and it survived in a small puddle in the gravel.
fishhead0103666
, I don’t really like to say my age to much as being so young many people don’t respect my opinion and think i don’t know what I’m talking about
when i was little my father always used bait fish for ice fishing. After keeping them alive through the summer months instead of letting them die, i got hooked, and always had small tanks after that. Then when joining mfk, thats when the big tanks and fish started.
The struggle is real. I work in construction and have been in charge of large commercial sites for almost 10 years now. I often have to lead men who have kids older than me. It can be hard attaining respect from crusty old men. Especially when you have a positional authority above them(the lowest form of leadership) you really have to know what you are doing, have a plan, and a few back up plans because nothing ever goes the way you plan. Also I still have a baby face so I still look fairly young, I don’t have much facial hair, and even now in my 30’s I still am asked for my id in pubs and whatnot. So I hear ya young folks.I agree with
In high school I had a 20g with several cardinal and other tetras as well as one big aquatic plant (don't remember the type). It had a little HOB filter that I never changed the cartridges for. Those fish all lived for 3 years with no maintenance of any kind - no water changes, no filter cartridge changes, no nothing. Water was always crystal clear. Never had an algae problem. I credit most of it to the plant. I gave the fish away when I went off to college.
Can't remember if I had the saltwater tank or the turtle setup first, anyway the saltwater tank was 55 gallons, and the turtle tank was 100, as a kid at first my father did the water changes, then as I got older I did the work.
my first real tank is a 200 gallon tank given to me by my dad when I was in 3rd grade. I had 1 albino common pleco, a pair of red telescope goldfish, a pair of black moor/black telescope goldfish, a bunch of guppies that started out from a few pair and a bunch of sword tail mollies that started out with 1 pair.
