How old were you?

Question

How old were you when you started your first freshwater tank and Saltwater/reef tank? Im just curious. I remember my first fresh water tank was when i was 5 and had some fantails. And at 8 i got my first saltwater 10g Fish only-Clarkii clown. Im 15 now

These are great stories!

lol 007 ill probably be like you! I really love fish and they're the only thing i can keep happy, Ive always loved dogs but they're not for me. Im really thinking of going into marine biology (lol it sounds cheessy, like im a 4 year old at seaworld) and i got 3 years left should i major in marine biology or just take a few classes and go in dpeth with science and math. I think i want to major though can you help me out?

Answer 1

well..... i think it was 3 or 4, my dad had a 55 gallon african cichlid tank. I guess it wasnt mine but i loved it so much. But now I am twelve and i do own a 72 gallon planted tank with many amazing fish,how about i tell you them!! 1 redtailed shark, 6 clown loaches, 4 ottos, 5 neon tetras. 6 phantom tetras, 1 albino brush mouth pleco, 1 gold nugget pleco, 1 gold spot pleco(my favorite), 1 platinum angel fish, 2 german blue ram cichlids, 6 red clawed shrimp. i love fish and i study them all the time. my tank is beautiful and it is alot of work for a 12 year old!!! i hope to work with fish all of my life.

Answer 2

Sure, I'll have a slice of cake! 1. 50+ is usually considered old 2. Probably like after 5 or 10 years 3. A couple weeks 4. A couple months 5. Wine unopened can last a long time. It depends on the year and type. (my dad is a wine expert) 6. Just like above, as long as you put it in a celler 7. Maybe like 10+ years 8. I think a dog is considered old after 8 years 9. I don't know, never reallyu heard anything about it 10. 7 days 11. Ones from like the 50s 12. 3 years I forgot the coat: but again, I don't really know

Answer 3

I was 6 years old when I was given the responsibility of the family's 29 gallon tank. Chrome corners, slate bottom. Under gravel filter and corner filter on an iron stand. The hood was aluminum (and hot enough to burn you) and the lights were incandescent. We had cardinals, black tetras and black neons. The tank below was 10 gallons (also slate and chrome) the original home of Mike and Ike, two little 2" red ear sliders, when it was legal to buy baby turtles.
We used to get all the stuff from a man in his early 20's. A few years prior, he was a high school student of my father (science teacher). By 22 or 23 he owned a coin op laundromat and next door an aquarium store.
He sold the laundry and moved to a bigger store around 1973 a few miles out of town. Eventually he built a building and opened an Agway with a pet shop. By the time he was 30, around 1977, he was a millionaire. I started selling him platies around this time, I was 13. As a teen, I worked part time in his shop. I can remember moving Mike and Ike to a 20 long and having a 20 high and two 10's for my livebearer breeding venture, they were similar to today's all glass tanks and I remember my father liking the florescent hoods but unsure about the air driven hang on back filters... I did get one and still have it today. I predominantly prefer corner filters today still, but do have two Whisper power filters and one AquaClear power filter. I think I bought my first one in the mid 1980's. I don't recall having a submersible heater until less than 10 years ago.

Answer 4

im 17 now, and i have bred around 15000+ bettas, started my first saltwater tank this year, worked with about 500 species of freshwater and saltwater fishes.

I started with an endler livebearer tank when i was around 4 years old. What a starter fish, true wild endlers. Both of my parents had fishes when they were growing up so it came naturally.

My dads 180 gallon had serval large balas, gouramies etc..

So from there i started with community fishes, working up to cichlids and koi. After learning about fishes over the years my phiolosphy changed and started working with advanced fishes like RBPs and electric catfish, and the rest is history.

I have always loved fishes and research about them every day for the last 13 years. I have worked with all aspects of freshwater fishkeeping and just started to break into the saltwater market.

I have always been known for as a betta guy, but my experience is very expanded with hundreds of other species. People who know me, know how passionate i am about fishkeeping.


My future will hopefully be somewhere in this industry part time. I hope to specialize in Bettas, Angelfish, Discus, Arowanas, Saltwater fishes.

Answer 5

I started my first freshwater tank when I was around 12-14. It was mostly live-bearers and beginner type fish. Didn't really start getting into it until I was 18-19 when I started my first African Cichlid tank. They were mostly brichardii, lamprologus, synodontis, and I forgot the name since it's been a while, but they were called the "Poor Man's Frontosa." I had a 30g custom made tank. You can say my tank was over populated with fish, but I made up for that with rigorous cleaning regimen and it helped that the filtration system I had for the tank was for a 100+ gallon tank. Plenty of rock-work. No casualties except for the ones I caused when cleaning. It involved my shell dwellers. Yea. Otherwise, hardly any fights. No fishes were backed up into a corner and losing color.

As for saltwater, I had a 40g set up, was conditioning it with live rock at the time. Never followed through with it due to a car accident I had and my family was not able to help me maintain it. But someday.

Answer 6

My very first job when I was fresh out of high school was for a man that imported tropical fish and wholesaled them to the local aquarium shops. That got me totaly hooked and I have seldom been without some kind of tank since, more often than not more than one. I live in Tampa which is really cool because I can bring home coral, plants and animals from the beach for my salt water tanks. ( I'm over 50 now)

Answer 7

I got my first freshwater tank when I turned 21, it was a gift from my younger sister. Since then, I've had fry and added more fish, I've had everyone for about 9 months.

Answer 8

i live in orlando fl and sea world has lots of jobs for marine biologists -- don't knock it! i had aquariums most of my life -- my first one was a really bad 5 gallon way overstocked -- but my dad was too cheap to buy me a bigger one. i had a few off and on but i basically ran fish death camps. then the internet came around and i found out how to stop the madness and clean my tank instead of the old once a month dump the whole thing wash it out and start over again. so i am a bit clean obsessive -- please don't shoot me.

Answer 9

i was about 10 or 11 and i had a 25 liter tank with neons in it im not exaclly sure but i think 25 liter is about 5 or 6 gallons

Answer 10

I was about 7 when my mom decided to get one, and we had goldfish in it untill I was 12. Then when I was 15 I set up my second one, and it had black and white mollies in it, and when they died it had neon tetras in it, and when they died, it got fancy guppies, and they've been in there ever since. I set up a third when I was 16 and it had glow-light tetras in it, and they are still alive (They were from Wal-mart of all places).