Hi, I'm Jim.
I was heavily into tropical fish back in the 70's as a teenager in Massachusetts, and have kept small tanks from time to time. I'm back in it big time now. Got a 75g for my den in my Florida home, and am trying to be successful at having a planted tank, something I have not attempted previously. Currently it has danios, rasboras, cherry barbs and otos. Also, MTS. I hope to add rams, cardinals and corys as I go along.
I have kept, at various times and varying success, algae eaters, angels, bettas, black skirt tetras, cardinals, cherry barbs, corys, gouramis, glass catfish, hatchetfish, guppies, mollies, neons, otos, platies, rasboras, tiger barbs, swordtails, and zebra danios.
I have bred and raised bettas successfully, but that was the only egg layer I ever tried breeding.
I have owned a steel-framed, slate bottomed tank, and have purchased neons at 10 for $1. So my age is showing.
A lot has changed in this hobby over the years, and I found myself asking a lot of questions, like:
What do you mean, I have more than two lighting choices? What can there possibly be except fluorescent or incandescent?
What's a balloon molly?
What do you mean, you can submerge a heater?
What's a parrot cichlid?
Silent Giant went out of business?
There are other African cichilids except kribs?
You want to inject CO2 INTO your aquarium?
What's a rainbowfish?
(The above questions are rhetorical for humor purposes. No answer needed. I will have others, though.)
The internet has really changed things and made this hobby easier and more enjoyable. TIA for the help and advice.
I was heavily into tropical fish back in the 70's as a teenager in Massachusetts, and have kept small tanks from time to time. I'm back in it big time now. Got a 75g for my den in my Florida home, and am trying to be successful at having a planted tank, something I have not attempted previously. Currently it has danios, rasboras, cherry barbs and otos. Also, MTS. I hope to add rams, cardinals and corys as I go along.
I have kept, at various times and varying success, algae eaters, angels, bettas, black skirt tetras, cardinals, cherry barbs, corys, gouramis, glass catfish, hatchetfish, guppies, mollies, neons, otos, platies, rasboras, tiger barbs, swordtails, and zebra danios.
I have bred and raised bettas successfully, but that was the only egg layer I ever tried breeding.
I have owned a steel-framed, slate bottomed tank, and have purchased neons at 10 for $1. So my age is showing.
A lot has changed in this hobby over the years, and I found myself asking a lot of questions, like:
What do you mean, I have more than two lighting choices? What can there possibly be except fluorescent or incandescent?
What's a balloon molly?
What do you mean, you can submerge a heater?
What's a parrot cichlid?
Silent Giant went out of business?
There are other African cichilids except kribs?
You want to inject CO2 INTO your aquarium?
What's a rainbowfish?
(The above questions are rhetorical for humor purposes. No answer needed. I will have others, though.)
The internet has really changed things and made this hobby easier and more enjoyable. TIA for the help and advice.
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