How did you get started?

Question

Im curious to know how and when did you got interested in this hobby, mine started 5 years ago when ask to care for my freinds fish tank while he was away for a couple of weeks, few weeks later i was at a pet store on boxing day and saw a marineland tank starter tank and the price so i decided to grab one and after that i was hooked, and know i owe two tanks, 20 gallon tank which was the original which i reaseal with silicone and a 120 gallon tank which will be my first saltwater tank,

Answer 1

When I was really young my parents got some tank I vagely remember. I really liked looking at it. From then on I really wanted a fish tank of my own.

Many years later I thought I'd try again. So I got some tiny tank (what I could afford when I was a student) and some goldfish...which I though I could keep with a tiny corner airlift filter...LOL I didn't know anything back then.

So anyway, they all died and I gave up for a while. Got married, moved to Hong Kong.

One day my sister-in-law and her boyfriend went to some fair where you could catch goldfish and take them home (on a sort of hoop thing with ricepaper on it). They managed to catch like 27 of them...which I put in a bowl (arrghh stupid) and added a cheap filter like before...(arrghh double stupid).

ANYWAY. They all died. Then later, my mother and father-in-law (who live in a "village" in Hong Kong, which is nearby rich peoples homes) found a pretty big (probably 50 gallons) tank which some rich person threw out. They gave it to me. I took it home and my wife and I went to the "fish street" here in Hong Kong to get some advice etc. on how to set up a saltwater tank. Which I did.

Thing is I put it on a TV cabinet which was on casters...BIG mistake. Over time the casters started to bend...so lucky for me I had a bunch of Tom Clancy and Frank Herbert (Dune) novels I had finished with, so I used them to prop up the tank.

So anyway, I decided to move that tank to a new position. However, I didn't completely empty it. BIG mistake. Of course the pressure of the water in the tank cracked the seam.

So anyway, I used silicone to repair that.

Then we decided to get a decent tank. We spent a decent amount and got a 60 gallon tank. We set it up right and I have been going strong since then.

I recently have converted that tank to a reef tank (still in the process) which is going well. I had to wait for my 5+ year old Neon Damsel to die, because that fish use to attack everything and wouldn't have been a good reef fish (seriously it would attack tube worms - not to eat - just for the pure sadistic pleasure).

I also have a nice planted tank, which I recently torn down (removed everything) and rescaped.

I love aquariums. I own a video production company. Life is good.

The end? No of course not. Tomorrow is another fishy day.

Answer 2

I'd always wanted fish but my mom would never let me have any. One time last semester I had to do a terrarium in biology so I got a 2.5 gallon aquarium for it. After a while, my plants died so I cleaned the tank out and took it upon myself to buy a plant, filter, and rocks. After a few days I went to the pet store and got me some feeder guppies. I found the prettiest ones I could. One of them got stuck to the filter the next day. Another one had gotten a super mysterious disease and died but I still have two small/mediumish ones and a really small one. I love them. I'm trying to hard to find a good place to put a 10 gallon aquarium but our house is so jammed with stuff that there are no good surfaces. I may clean off my shelf and put a tank on there after I get my job *either at premium pet peroducts or H2Ocean (specalizes in salt water fish)* I love fish. I could stare at them for hours. I want a salt water tank but that would be even harder to find a place for. It's great. I've gotten someone else super into the hobby too. They already have two freshwater aquariums *cold water and tropical* and they already have a huge one picked out for a saltwater tank. I'm excited. It's a great hobby. Let's pull the world into it!
{K}itty

Answer 3

I started when I won a common goldfish at the fair. I also got a hold of a book that showed all these beautiful goldfish in it that I had never seen before. They looked like jewels, something rare and exotic. I've been hooked on the goldfish ever since. I love their puppy dog ways. I like to watch them grow and change. I like to find rare ones and collect them. They are all different and grow large. The colors are not to be matched with any other freshwater fish, and there is always a new hot breed or color that comes out on the market. Its an interesting hobby that most fish keepers know very little about. Its a very lucrative business where breeding lines are kept top secret. There is more to goldfish than most people realize.

Answer 4

As a child my mother had fish tanks, so I guess I got my love for the hobby from her.
I now have ( 10 ) 50 gallon tanks, ( 5 ) 120 gallon tanks, ( 1 ) custom made tank that's about 500 gallons. I also have 10 sick tanks, and 20 birth tanks.
I guess you could say that I really Love Fish.
It takes my all day to clean the tanks, but I enjoy every second of it.

Answer 5

I started in the hobby in the beggining of 2006-2007 school year. My mom wanted to go to the shoe store and we did. Then my father and I wanted to get some food for our cats. Then I looked at all the beatiful, amazing fish and asked my parents if I could have fish as my pet. And they did. From that point I am A FISH MANIAC!

Answer 6

Lived in a town with nothing to do there... found a pound nearby so I checked out the dogs just for fun. Fell in love with a beagle who was going to be put down in a week, so I had to grab him as an impulse buy :]
Best impulse buy in my life, and so I keep rescuing dogs (mostly beagles) who wouldn't have a life otherwise.