Fish Keeping Experience

How many months/years have you been into the fish hobby? I've been in 7 months

 

3 years and 4 months

 

I've only been the hobby for just under a month

 

I've only been the hobby for just under a month

Good luck!

 

I've been keeping fish for a year and 7 months!

 

2 months and one week

 

Almost 4 years! (All my life if you count me "having" fish in parents tanks/ponds.)

 

12 years

 

Almost 30 years. I got my first tank for Christmas in 1986.

 

61 years on and off. Got my first tank at 9 a 10 gallon tank with guppies. Alison

 

Several months.

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At least 24 years maybe more, I honestly can't remember when I got my first tank. I just know it was before the age of 10. I have kept many different aquatic species over the years. Turtles and catfish are my favorite. Amphiuma is probably the most odd.

 

At least 24 years maybe more, I honestly can't remember when I got my first tank. I just know it was before the age of 10. I have kept many different aquatic species over the years. Turtles and catfish are my favorite. Amphiuma is probably the most odd.

Oh hey you live in Florida? Me too!

 

Hey me too. Alison

 

Oh hey you live in Florida? Me too!

Why yes, yes I do. Born and raised

 

Why yes, yes I do. Born and raised

Same XD. But my siblings and my dad were raised mostly in New Jersey.

 

Same XD. But my siblings and my dad were raised mostly in New Jersey.

Yankee blood lol

 

Well I got my first tank when I was around eight years old, but that ended quickly and tragically.

I didn't really get seriously into proper fish care until about eight months ago. I'm very much a beginner but I do have a bit of knowledge due to me researching everything I can.

 

First fish tank I ever took care of was when I was about 7 or 8 years old, and that lasted until I was about 11. So four years of just basic care of water changes and dechlorinating water and switching around decorations but I didn't know anything about the nitrogen cycle or stocking or anything that's really important in the hobby. Now I'm older and got back into the hobby around February 2015. So all together 5 years but I only got into it seriously a little over a year ago.

 

Yankee blood lol

Well, actually my dad was born in Florida then his parents got divorced and he moved to New Jersey where his mom's mom was. Then, he found my mom (which I kinda wish he didn't) and had my brother and sister. Finally, they moved allllllllllllll the way back to Florida where I was born. For some reason though, I like the cold weather better. I also like water a lot, so... is that how I got into the fish hobby?

 

Well, actually my dad was born in Florida then his parents got divorced and he moved to New Jersey where his mom's mom was.

Oh, that's better then.

 

Well, actually my dad was born in Florida then his parents got divorced and he moved to New Jersey where his mom's mom was. Then, he found my mom (which I kinda wish he didn't) and had my brother and sister. Finally, they moved allllllllllllll the way back to Florida where I was born. For some reason though, I like the cold weather better. I also like water a lot, so... is that how I got into the fish hobby?

If your Dad hadn't found your Mom you wouldn't be around now would you, so in a way it's a good thing he did so you could be born, right?

 

If your Dad hadn't found your Mom you wouldn't be around now would you, so in a way it's a good thing he did so you could be born, right?

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Honestly, I hate my mom. She's a horrible person.

 

Honestly, I hate my mom. She's a horrible person.

Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude if I was please forgive me I didn't realize you hated your Mom.

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Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude if I was please forgive me I didn't realize you hated your Mom.

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Nah, it's okay. People say these things to me all the time.

 

Nah, it's okay. People say these things to me all the time.

Thanks for not taking offense a lot of times I speak (or in this case type) without considering the other person's feelings though I'm working on that.

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Thanks for not taking offense a lot of times I speak (or in this case type) without considering the other person's feelings though I'm working on that.

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You're not alone.

 

You're not alone.

I'm sure I'm not I'm sure the are a lot of people like me I just don't like when I go back over the conversations in my mind and I realize how rude I was.

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Oh hey you live in Florida? Me too!

So what part are you in?

 

So what part are you in?

I live in Wesly Chapel and I just moved here from my hometown, Lakeland. Oh and I'm really close to that one kia dealership XD

 

I've been keeping/breeding fish for about 50 years. Been studying them for 51. Unlike most people, I decided to buy a book before I ever had a tank. Two days after I set up my first tank, I had a Swordtail drop fry in the community. I fished them out and raised them for a while in a Kritter Keeper until I could put them back in the bigger tank. After that, I realized that the learning was in the breeding. Been down a couple of times, but never completely out.

 

What is your fish keeping experience? 7 years with freshwater from triops to discus breeding, and 2 years with keeping a reef tank.
What are yours?

 

6 years - just tropical fish, pleco's, danios, tetras, catfish. loaches, guppies and just got my first livebearers ( Mickey Mouse Platy's ) about a month ago!

72 gallon
5 gallon shrimp tank
10 gallon QT tank
6.6 Fluval Edge ( not currently running )

 

I be back on this one later..

 

2 years-around 5 months if you are only counting informed fish keeping tho....

 

2 years-around 5 months if you are only counting informed fish keeping tho....

Me too as I wasn't on FL for awhile until AFTER my first 5 gallon tank

 

Yup.... Except mine was a 20... An upgrade for a few survivors from a ten gallon turtle tank... *shudders*

 

56 years ....Making every mistake you can think of :shock:

 

56 years ....Making every mistake you can think of :shock:

Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!!! YOU win!

 

Fish keeping: 5 years
Appropriate and well educated fish keeping: 2.5 years.
Previously bred dwarf crayfish and a few batches of bn plecos.
Been breeding angelfish pretty seriously for a year and a half and it has become a passion of mine.
I currently have 14 tanks squeezed into a small 2 bedroom condo.
75
55 x 2
46
40
29 x 2
20h x 2
20l
15
10 x 3