?How did you get started with Fishtanks?

i worked at a pet store with am employee who hated goldfish. i ended up getting some out of spite (because i hated the guy) and ended up falling in love with the things and upgrading their tank
im now into inverts and bottomdwellers of any kind :D
 
hmmmmm i really like inverts ... never could really keep them for long i had fiddler crabs and they killed ecother in a 30gallon and there was only 3 of them .... and then when there was only one of them left he got out and i never seen him agen :(
 
i was sitting down at the mall near my house, watching my kiddlet play at the indoor playground. this was three days before my birthday and my stepmom was at the mall with us, but had 'gone off on an errand'. after some time, a plain white shopping bag was thrust into my line of vision, "happy birthday!". inside was a lil blue veiltail betta and a 1/2 gallon cube. hmmm... i simply can't tell my stepmom "um, gee, thanks, but i don't think i want a fish.....", i simply could not say that to my stepmommy! so i took the betta home. Fyshee he became, and i figured i'd better start learning something about fish, since my last experience was when i was ne'r knee high to a grasshopper and decided to help dad and give his 10 gallon of tetras a water change. knowing nothing of dechlorinater and temperature importancy, well.... yeah.....

that's my story, but there is no end when it comes to having finkids, lol.
 
I lived on a brackish water canal when I was a kid and I got a net :)
 
my mom and dad have always had fish... But i started really when i was about 14, i got a 10 gallon tank for christmas, and my dad took me to the pet store and i got to get anything i wanted, so i bought guppies and balloon bellied mollies and platies. 'then i fell out of the hobby for a bit until i seen a garage sale with a 10 gal sitting there with everything, all the decor, the gravel, the filter, the air pump, the heater, EVERYTHING For 10 dollars... so i was like, ima buy that. so i bought it and bought 2 goldfish for it, ended up giving my goldies away because a 10 gal was much to small for them, so i bought a betta and some Briggs and ghost shrimp and guppies, got rid of the guppies and bought a bigger tank. used the 20 gal for a while, but ended up getting rid of it too... and now i got my curent tank, with just a betta, a algea eater, ADFrog, and about 15 brigs!!! My snails are my passion... i love love love them!!
 
and just recently i found out that my dad had a 50 gallon planted tank in his youth, so maybe it's in the genes...... lol!
 
My mom kept a pretty big tank when I was a kid. I loved watching the fish but never really got into the care/maintenance with her.
I had known I wanted a tank for quite a few years but it took that long with whining and bribery to get hubby to agree! :grinyes: Now I have 3 set up and 2 in storage......
 
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