akamel

I love this thread !! When I was a little girl my neighbor had a fishttank for sale and I dont remeber why ( maybe I asked for it ) but my parents bought it for me. I had it for years ! Well, eventually I got use to hearing the tank running and it helped me to sleep. Off and on as an adult I had tanks. But back then I didnt know about stocking and cycling process so I killed off alot of fish. Guess I got frustrated and quit. In recent years I have insomnia really bad. Well at work a girl came in with some free goldfish--that did it !! I cant stop thinking about fish ! I guess Im making up for lost time. AND this forum helps me with MTS !!! LOL !!

hozzie

When I met my husband 10 years ago I had 6 cats, 2 dogs, 2 rats, 2 rabbits, a guinea pig and a horse.
A year ago was down to 2 cats, thats all. Husband hates pets and refused to allow another dog etc. So I had a rebellious day and went to buy a baby tortoise from the fish shop. Came out with a fish tank. No experience at all, fell in love and have 6 tanks. Fish dont moult, dont pee on the carpet or be sick on your bed ...so he cant object. I clean tanks when he's away which is often.

My fish keep me sane. They live an internal life in the tank with no concept of the human world outside.They interact on so many levels. I sit and watch them and the world receeds.

click

When I was about 10 I think, I went my friends house and his dad had one of the apartment bedrooms FULL of tanks...top to bottom. (he probably had MTS). I was so impressed by the beautiful fish he had, that I decided one day I will get a tank too.

That was 19 years ago. Last week I got my first tank

lorabell

Mine started (again after 30 years)...when my daughter decided she wanted a tank with puffers.......well theyre mine now....and of course Ive had to add to it!!!!!!lol....8 tanks later

Lexar169

Well i was at a friends house and he had a 75g tank and i noticed that i was completly zoned into it....and you know...i spent the next 3 or 4 months wanting to get fish soo bad bc i loved how entertaing it is and the sound of the water is really calming for me and that means alot to me bc im a pretty wound up person..

Fishnugget43

Last year I helped my friends mom clean their Aquarium... Went online later that night and started doing research

DRock914

It started with my dad bringing me to LFS's to see all the fish when I was 2, sort of like a local aquarium for a 2 year old. He then decided to get a 20 gallon community tank which then LED to a couple 2g tanks, 10g, 29g, and 70g. Few years later he got a 5g for my room but that started to leak and didn't last long. Then when I was 8 I had my own 2g that he let me take care of but I got sick of it after a year and it became his albino frog tank. Now that I am back home and out of college I decided to start the hobby up again and got a 20g for my room and took back the 2g that was vacant.