your first tank

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horndevl

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i was about 15 yrs old started with a 10 gallon guppies and such ,then moved to 55gal with oscars, My neighbor started she had family in germany they sent us 110gal and the fish tanks where going.didnt know anything about cycling tanks we just treated water then fed the oscars. then grewup gor married and 30 years later im doing it again..but learning about what im doing now
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It was a around a year ago a little more I took the 10gal down from the attic after I got my bettas I wanted fish fish. So I set it up and then I wanted more so I got another 10gal. Then I wanted bigger so I got a 15gal hex from my moms friend who was moving buwhahaha I <3 that lady. Then I got a 30gal to ease my African temptations. After that my bf then and took off he got 10gallons, 2 20gallons, a 30gallon and 125gallon and I throw my big fish in his tanks =) wheee

oh and we had a 55gallon but the oscar shattered the glass from slamming into it to hard.... that was intresting...
 
I was nine and lived on a farm and the cattle reservoirs had gold fish in. i started selling the goldfish to a lfs and then started moving similar looking ones into the same resorvoirs and then at about ten, i got a 5 litre hex tank. no air pump, just little bit of sand and some oxygen weed. then got a 10gal, moved onto a 75gal by 13, added a 45gal by 14, and so have moved on to a 268gal, 90gal,75gal,55gal, 3x30gal, 40gal, 2x20gal, 2x10gal.
 
my first tank was a 20 gal, don't remember how old I was, but less than 10 years. I had an oscar, named Oscar, a pleco, named Wiggles, and I caught a catfish out of a ditch, named Catfish, or "fish" for short, and had them all for a few years. The catfish I belive was a bullhead. I remember having to scoop them all up into a bucket, drain the tank, take it outside, hose and scrub it, carry it back in, fill it, and dump the fish in.

how those fish survived as long as they did- no idea! when they finally croaked, The catfish was a foot long, the pleco about 8 inches, and the oscar a good 8-10 inches. We had funerals for all of them.
 
7th Grade, Science project on goldfish growth rates. Had them for 4 yrs, put them in a pond. Then moved up to real fish. Now I have an Oscar, and breed Convicts. 2x10g 1x20g 2x30g 1x55g.
 
my mother had a goldfish tank when i was a kid and it definitely wasnt for us kids to touch. lol. we were allowed to watch and thats it!!! the first tank i had bought myself was a 55 gallon. i was at the store with the g/f looking to pick up a 30 gal kit and i hear, "baby look at this, its bigger and only another $30" SOLD LOL. since then i have that 55, a 40 breeder, 30, 20, and 2 10s.
 
My parents kept a 10 gallon for as long as I remember with mostly fancy goldfish. What got me into fish was a betta, tiny betta bowl, and a 4 chamber betta container you can suction cup to a tank, all this my grandma gave me when I was 7.
 
I guess my first "tank" (if that's what you want to call it) was a gallon jug with feeder guppys in it. I found their behavior so interesting that I fell in love with non-shark fish (I have always loved sharks, all my life) and went to college to study fish. My gf gave me a betta vase my first symester and I had him for almost two years before he died of dropsy. Shortly before he died I was given a 20g with a trio of convicts and a pleco....now that was interesting!!!! I decided I wanted to keep fish and now I have a 75g, 55g, 29g, 29g, 20gH, 20gL, 10g, 5g and a 40g but there is a turtle in it....not fish.
 
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