So.....How Old Are You?

[Aqualung]

In relation to the other thread........how old are you, and how many years have you kept aquariums?

Myself, I started fishkeeping at the age of 8. I stopped for awhile at the age of 15, and just took it up again a year ago.

I'm 26 :cool:

[Mocular]

i wish i was 21, i act like im 12, and my birth certificate says i was born july 11th 1985 (that means im 19 for those who arn't keen on math)

[FL Knifemaker]

I was born in '59 and have lost count of the actual years. :mad: ;)

[Dangerdoll]

I was born in '69 ;)

[hcgirl80]

I'm too old........NOT!!!

lol! I am the youngest one here!

[Maj0rFiSh]

Im 17...

[shooby]

I am 15. I started keeping at 10. But I just registered here a few weeks ago. I am hoping to continue keeping tanks as long as I can and I enjoy every minute of it.

[Timmain42]

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. :D And I've been water-keeping on and off for 12 years.

I graduated HS the same year as Lila.

[dwayne]

I'm 31 (won't be 32 till December) and I've kept fish off and on since I was about 10 (like one goldfish in a bowl :( ) and have had my current tank for 5 years now...

:D

[Ems]

I'm 18. Been keeping fish on and off since I was 8 or so.

[bayoupr]

Fish keeping about 20yrs on and off. As for my age, I'm half a century and this year I will be 49 and counting down to my youth again. After all we are all young at heart.

[elgecko]

I thought since yesterday was my Birthday I would respond.
I'm 34 and 1 day old. Certainly do not act like it, ask the wife.

I've been keeping fish for over 20 years.

[Dangerdoll]

Happy Birthday elgecko! :D

[Harlock]

I'm 31. Started keeping fish when I was 11, kept them until I was about 17, then starte again just very very recently, as in December of 2004. So, umm, Fishkeeping for 6 years and change.

[Nuriel]

Im 24, started keeping fish as a grade school kid and restarted the hobby last summer.

[slipknottin]

21

[mogurnda]

21
Hah! I'm twice the man you are.

[NowherMan6]

22. been keeping fish since waaaaay back when, when I was 21.

[tomm10]

30. I've been keeping fish for about a year and a half now.

[aknif]

I'm 30... The earliest tank I can remember caring for was a 20 gal long full of guppies and itty bitty snails when I was about 10. One of the weekly chores that my brother, sister and I would have as kids was that we each had to crush 10 snails in the tank so the fish could eat their bodies... It was my Mom's method of snail control! And every week, my sister would barter with my brother and me for who would crush her snails in exchange for a different chore.. She could not bring herself to stick her hand in the tank, much less crush a snail... Oh the concerns of childhood! ;)

I still have that 20g long in my basement, empty, right now! Since then, I cannot remember a time that I've never had a tank running. Whether it was a tiny 2 or 3 gallon on my desk at my first "real" job, or my 5.5 gallon, a 10 gallon or a 29 gallon.... Almost always with small fish, guppies, tetras, neons, dwarf frogs, bettas...

My 125g that I got for Christmas is my biggest tank ever. It's also the very first time that i've kept most of the kinds of fish that are in there!

I LOVE IT!!! :dance

[slipknottin]

Hah! I'm twice the man you are.

Or half, depending on how you look at it.
:laugh:

[TONO]

18 been keeping fish for about 8 years? maybe less

[mogurnda]

Or half, depending on how you look at it.
:laugh:
Just noticed our post counts. You're right.

[congealedmeat]

I'm 23, been keeping fish for about a year and a half.

[Timmain42]

Just noticed our post counts. You're right.
Those are all since Jan 2002. Slip and I joined up at the same time, amazingly enough.

[Harlock]

I'll double up on Timmain by the time I hit 3 months I am supposing. It will be interesting to see if I run out of crap to talk about though...

[Lila]

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. :D And I've been water-keeping on and off for 12 years.

That kinda rhymes!

I graduated HS the same year as Lila.

And I'm not telling!

C'mon, Tim... let's go have a drink!

;)

Lila

[Benson]

I'll be 46 tomorrow and loving every moment of every year. I've been keeping fish for just two years. Learning a lot from you whipper snappers... :)

[flyingfish]

Born in '74, started keeping fish as a pre-schooler with my Dad who kept guppies and bred Discus - I remember the awe I felt when he would actually let me feed the guppies. :) My first personal tank was a 10 gal at the age of 10. I'm running a 15tall with guppies but I have a 33 long ready to set up as an open top "water garden" with fish sometime soon.

[Timmain42]

That kinda rhymes!



And I'm not telling!

C'mon, Tim... let's go have a drink!

;)

Lila

c'mon on down, lady.. I'll buy.

[Timmain42]

I'll double up on Timmain by the time I hit 3 months I am supposing. It will be interesting to see if I run out of crap to talk about though...
Actually, I'm missing about 500 posts (they got lost in the Legendary Forum Hack of '04).

[happychem]

25, been keeping fish for about a year and a half, killed fish for about a half year before that. ;)

[mayreee]

I'm 22 and have been keeping fish for 4 months. Today I gave up and gave all my beloved fish away :sad and listed all my tanks for sale.

[Harlock]

Ahh, okay, so about the time I hit 4-6 months. ;)

Harlock runs off to find more crap to talk about.

[Harlock]

I'm 22 and have been keeping fish for 4 months. Today I gave up and gave all my beloved fish away :sad and listed all my tanks for sale.
What happened mayree?

[mayreee]

My platy died of swim bladder disease and my molly was sick for weeks and i put her to sleep. So I go to put my 2 neons in the big tank with the blood parrot eventhough I knew I shouldnt. I took my chances and did it anyways because I wanted to change the gravel in the 5 gallon and HE ATE THEM!!!!!!!! :sad :sad :sad :sad I tried to save them but I couldn't and it was all my fault. I shouldn't have done it. I have killed so many of my fish :sad I cant take it anymore because I love all animals so much and even my fish like they were my children. I couldn't take the sickness, worrying, and dying anymore. Now I am very depressed and haveing a very bad day because I miss them so much already. The worst part is not knowing the practices of the person who took them eventhough I know she probably will take good care of them, but I don't really trust anyone to take care of them as well as I would have :sad

[Ems]

Aww that's too bad... It's all part of the learning experience though. I have been keeping fish steadily for a few years now and have wanted to quit a few times. Everytime a fish dies, either from sickness or age, or some stupid mistake I made, I feel absolutely horrible. Maybe you should take a break from it and try again in a few months, or years, or whenever you feel comfortable. Cheer up though :) I'm sure the person you gave the fish to will know how to care for them.

[pl*co]

50 :D (yikes, that's a big number!)

[Slappy*McFish]

I was born 5/9/71. I have been keeping fish for about the last 20 yrs or so and still have no clue as to what I'm doing. I think I've learned more in the last 4 yrs than all the other years combined thanks to fishy forums like this. Yet, there's still so much to learn. :cool:

[kveeti]

Born Aug.19/58. First had a ‘goldfish bowl’ :( of guppies when I was 10 &11. Set up my first tank when I was 16 and have had fish ever since. For a couple years after my son was born, the tank was awfully neglected.

[YoFishboy]

I'm 43 and I have had fish for 35 years...wish I had a dime for everyone I've lost over the years! :thud:

[125gJoe]

Born '61...

Time flies!
Enjoy it!

:D

IBM 7340 Hypertape Drive

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/images/PH7340.jpg

[Matak]

I was born in '59 and have lost count of the actual years. :mad: ;)Same here. What month? I'm August.
Kveeti - it always startles me when I realize (again) that I am younger than you. I would have put you at 37.

[125gJoe]

Kveeti - it always startles me when I realize (again) that I am younger than you. Uh oh.. Matak, you young whipper-snapper!
:D

[Watcher74]

Ah..the legendary forum hack of '04...

http://img36.exs.cx/img36/6466/dork-med.jpg

30 years I've wasted. 2 of those on fish.

[Jason01]

22
I had(or should I say killed) fish when I was 10 or so. I got a new tank last spring(an impulse buy), and am now up to 5 tanks(149 gal. total). My parents love me sooooooo much.......

[Aqualung]

I'm 22 and have been keeping fish for 4 months. Today I gave up and gave all my beloved fish away :sad and listed all my tanks for sale.

Sorry to hear that mayree.......I know it can be frustrating when fish die despite your best efforts, but sometimes things happen that are beyond our control as fishkeepers. And everyone makes mistakes now and then! Don't beat yourself up over it or worry too much about how well your fish are doing, start researching and planning for a new (and bigger) tank! :)

[simple_mr2]

wow, alot of people in here are younger than i thought! (i thought i would be the youngest by far, but i guess not)


ill be 20 in june, i have been keeping fish for maybe two months now, and it is realllly addicting, lol




jared

[nursie]

Born in '58.
I've had up to 3 tanks up and running until the big kitchen remodel fiasco at our house about 3 years ago. DH and I were doing the work...planned to have done in 3 mo or so outside..we took it to the wall studs and subfloor, with lots of electrical rewiring and ripping out some walls. He developed a bulging disc in his upper back and had to put things on hold for months :(
Ended up loosing/giving away all fish because of lack of water supply to tanks. Couldn't run python from bathroom faucets as planned, and one thing after another.
But he got better...I have a beautiful kitchen and now I'm ready for my fish back.

[Lauren]

19 on tuesday. I had a tank for a while when I was young, but I just got into it again a little over a year and a half ago.

[1tankneverenuff]

20...been in freshwater for about 8 months, beginning to venture into saltwater.

[Blinky]

I'm 30, and I've had fish on and off since I was five or six. My first fish was a goldfish I won and brought home (surprise mom!). My mom bought a small tank and kept it in my room for a while, then it disappeared one day - I'm guessing the goldfish died and she tore the tank down and gave it away. I must have missed having fish, because when my grandmother asked me what I wanted for my sixteenth birthday, I asked for an aquarium. She bought me a 35g setup, and I started killing fish left, right and centre. Gradually I learned how to keep them properly, and started going out with a boy who loved fish - a recipe for MTS! I filled my room with tanks, went a little crazy for a while. When I went to university I had to downsize to a 10g, which curtailed things and left my parents with a house full of empty tanks! Now I've got two tanks and it's enough to keep me very busy.
I still have MTS but I go to meetings regularly and manage to keep it under control ;)

[Petra]

Thought this was a good place for my first post. Hi, everyone!

I'm 23, soon to be 24 - yay Year of the Rooster!! My first aquarium was a 10 gallon nightlight with some awfully unfortunate fish including a goldfish, a pleco, and far too many mollies when I was about 5. It lasted until I was 13. I picked up the hobby again in December and have since completely revamped my thoughts on fishkeeping thanx largely to this site and its very well-informed members. I currently have 3 cycled 10 gallons, one soon to be planted.

[Matak]

Thought this was a good place for my first post. Hi, everyone!Not yet!...:D
BTW, nice having you here, welcome to AC. :)

[Petra]

Thank you for the welcome, Matak!

Hrm... if it looks like a post and smells like a post... it's still not a post. Maybe this will be my first? :)

[Matak]

It's just slight of hand...
Replies in General chit chat don't count towards your post count, but posts in any other forum do.
Is Petra your name?
Where ya from?
do I ask too many questions?

[Jtd724]

I'm 24, starting keeping fish at 11, had 10gallon for about 2-3 years. Took a loooooooong break (9 years), got back into them when a friend gave me a 20 gallon long with filter, Learned alot from that tank and these forums. After 9\11 took a 3 1\2 year Hiatus, got back into my 55gallon about 2 months ago, Still have a 90 gallon waiting to be setup, had that 90 for 5 years now, just sitting..............


My Tanks
20 gallon -empty
30 gallon QT tank
55 gallon Malawi Cichlid setup, mostly mbuna
90 gallon- empty. planning another Malawi setup.

[Petra]

Ah, I actually need to contribute to get a post count. That's the hardest thing with this forum - I can find the answer to my questions in previous posts. It's too good!

Petra is the short version of my name, yes. I'm from the Ukraine, but I'm in Utah for university. It's an extremely unique experience.

Matak, of course you don't ask too many questions. Everyone's favorite subject is themselves. I just don't want to detract from the thread.

[StreetCypher]

Petra, you like the "Hitch hiker guide to the galaxy", eh?

[125gJoe]

http://home.u08.itscom.net/hedgehog/collection/h6l.jpg

[Petra]

Spartan - I'd never leave home without it! I'm a fan of the entire "trilogy"

Joe - I love that pic! I never pictured the Babel Fish as being so colorful. :cool:

[Snake Eyez]

I'm 25 now and been keeping fish seriously since June 2004.

[happychem]

That is a great "trilogy"! I haven't read the 5th one yet though, looking forward to it.

[StreetCypher]

That is a great "trilogy"! I haven't read the 5th one yet though, looking forward to it.

Thats got to be one of my favorite books. I love the dry humor that a lot of people probably miss.

Another good book i read was "Guns, Germs and Steel." I recommend it

[pjfish]

I'm 52 and got my aquarium about 3 months ago. I think I'm about the oldest and have the least experience of anyone here.

[Froggie2009]

I'm 14 i've had my 2 g hex for a month and a 2g tank with goldies for 5years.
I'm still learnign about ph and all that good stuff.
My pets:
2 ADF
2 Ghost shrimp
2 goldfish
1 Pure bred puppy-My best frined michael skustad. :D he's really a person but you know...

[greeneyedlady]

Born the year of the snake--so guess ;)

Fish, fish, ohhhhhhhhhhhh fish yeah that's right errrrrrrrrrrr wait let me think errrrrrrrrrrr 20 plus years dangggggggggggggggg that's a long time when you start to think about it :eek:

[Shaz]

I'm 24 and have been keeping fish for about 7 -8 months now.

[TommyR]

46 here. Had fish when I was a kid but as I got older drums and girls took over.

Flash to fall of 2004.......

Got a 10 gallon in October and I now have 3 tanks.

Tom

[happychem]

Born the year of the snake--so guess ;)

Fish, fish, ohhhhhhhhhhhh fish yeah that's right errrrrrrrrrrr wait let me think errrrrrrrrrrr 20 plus years dangggggggggggggggg that's a long time when you start to think about it :eek:
Hmmm, I think that that makes you 29. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[greeneyedlady]

Hmmm, I think that that makes you 29. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.



:D always play it safe baby, always play it safe :D

[treynoldsfb25]

im 17 and ive been fishkeeping since i was 13

[TrickyD119]

24 here.

Bought my first tank, a 29g, when I was 19 and despite knowing absolutely nothing about the hobby up until the last month (and I still have a looooooong way to go) have managed to keep my original 2 Blackskirt Tetras alive that entire time, even on a 900 mile move from Wisconsin to Alabama (unfortunately they are the only 2).

I bought a second 29g about 9 months ago and a 20g and a 10g in the last month. Hoping to have all of my fish last as long as my first 2 now.

[ryknier]

20 and on and off since 12, might stay with it now that I have a "huge" at least big for me!!! otherwise I have always had a 20g to play with