What Made You Want A Freshwater Aquarium?

[DepotFish]

Can't pass the fish section in the store without stopping to make fishy faces! I needed a pet I can have in my dorm room and watching my fish relaxes me after a hard day in class.

[boomboom]

It really started because I didn't want to waste a tank. about a year ago my son beg and i mean beg for a lizard and so for his 10th birthday I purchase a leporad gekco, unfortunatly is commited sucide , but with two large lab always licking your tank wouldn't you.So it started harmlessly
a 20 gallon tank, guppies,danio and a pleco. then I saw a beautiful shark ,
and then the tank was empty, no more shark my 15 yr daught was terrible upset. I fill the twenty gallon to easy then up graded to a 33 gallon an month ago and converted my 20 gallon to brackish ( love my dragon like my kids) and now well i need a bigger tank, in truth two teenage kids, two dogs full time demanding job and a husband my tank are the most peacful thing I have

[Flutterby21782]

I took a second job at a pet store, owner was a friend of my currant boss. In the store there were puffers, a parrot cichlid, and a yellow cichlid (small, kinda rectangular in shape, Walmart sells them). One day the tank got sick, I set up some sick tanks (store didn't have them). Needless to say I fell in love with them, when they appeared to be better I took them all home. Within a few weeks the puffers and teh cichlid died. The parrot is still kicking, has another parrot buddy, 8 tiger barb friends, a pleco buddy, and a red lobster.

[honmol]

When I was 8 my parents separated and my dad moved about a mile away. He lives in a condo with a decent sized patio in back. Well, I'd always loved elephants so when he found a small elephant spitter he got it and a small pond for it to spit into. Later we got a path so that the water would travel into the path and down into the pond. We got a few floating plants and put river rocks in the bottom. Next we decided that we needed some fish for the pond and went and purchased 4 guppies. Within a month I had about 60. They outgrew the pond pretty fast so I started moving them into tanks. Now I have to sell most of my fry but I accidentally inbred them (even though I kept adding new stock) and now I have a gorgeous male with a pretty blue and gren spotted tail that's as big as he is, maybe bigger. I'm starting on community aquariums and want to eventually move into salt water

[Itwasthisbig]

I had a particular crazy friend who through these great parties with 70's theme's, well he still lives in the 70's

I always wound up waking up on the coach with my face against his tank 250g. Then I noticed any time I was in his house that I sat next to the tank and people used to shout at me because I was mesmerised.

Purchased a tank that day and never looked back.

[CompMage]

WHen I was a child, many many years ago. My parents friend had 3 huge [acronym:4df7c709cd="Saltwater"]SW[/acronym:4df7c709cd] tanks and a [acronym:4df7c709cd="Freshwater"]FW[/acronym:4df7c709cd] tank in every room of the house. And I mean everyroom, I'll let you think about that for a minute or two. Yep one there too!! Anyways I've always admired them.

I've never been able to till now that I live on my own and have my own place and I don't got to worry about a cat fishing. My parents excuse when I was young. I can now have lots of fish. And I DO

I currently have
55G Perfecto Tank /w
7 Three Spot Blue Gouramis
7 Black Skirt Tetras
4 Small gold colored fish of unknown species.
1 Black Mistery Snail

10G Perfecto tank /w
8 Fancy Guppies

10G Perfecto tank /w - At my office
4 Fancy Guppies
5 Neon Tetras

50G Unknown brand tank - Planted
15 Tiger Barbs
1 Rainbow Shark

[Japola44]

Well let me see here... I think my ubsession started at a young age.
I remember my first fish were 2 gold fish when i was 3 or 4. After that i got 2 salamanders and a 10 [acronym:40de027450="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:40de027450] tank. When they died 2 years later, my small animal hobby went into the closet. I found horses not exactly something u keep in an aquarium. In any case I eventualy some how ended up with a box turtle that ate lettuce and turkey(i know not natural...blame my sister lol), but he got sick and my dad took him to an aqaurium. Left with an empty 20 gallon I convinced my parents to get me a leopard gecko. He lived for a good few years until when out of town our care takers didn't care for him. Suddenly last year I decided on getting fish a very spontanious choice. I got a bunch of guppies and plopped them into my 10 [acronym:40de027450="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:40de027450]. They eventualy all passed from what i now know as ick. So again out of randomness i had the urge to get a real tank set up. So, i did. Here i am now with a 10 [acronym:40de027450="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:40de027450] puffer tank, a 20 [acronym:40de027450="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:40de027450] tank with a baby bichir senegal and baby bgk and 2 dwarf gouramis. Soon i shall have my 55 cycling to move my bichir and bgk to. From there i suppose the next set up is 100 [acronym:40de027450="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:40de027450] tank lol. In any case i love it. I love it a lot. I have always been intersted in aquatics and its great to have some pretty and interesting fish swiming around

[Ryehard]

I've always had a facination with aquariums and aquatic life in general, but never thought of having an aquarium of my own because I never knew anyone that had one. Then one day a friend of mine purchased one of those baby red-eared sliders you can get at flea markets and in china town and discovered he had no clue how to take care of it. When he got tired of it I decided to adopt it and bought everything under the sun that I thought would aid in it's survival including many reading refferences. 6 months later I was left with a 29 gallon aquarium, a few different filters, tons of decorations and water quality products and no more turtle (R.I.P). It finally hit me that a freshwater aquarium would be a great idea, and would certainly be something I could handle after spending several hours a day tending to a sick turtle. So far so good. Now I just can't wait until I can get more larger tanks!

[potterlu]

So, what made me want a freshwater tank, huh? I'm not quite sure. I know my family had a small (2-3 gallon) tank when I was a kid; fish never seemed to last too long in that thing, and I was never really bitten to look after fish overly diligently. It became the domain of my mom and sister, and we saw various goldfish and bettas come and go over the years.

Fast forward about 10 or 15 years. I'm now done university, and one day walked into a furniture store to poke around at stuff for my apartment. I walk in the basement, and there's a "huge" tank sitting there. I ended up picking up the tank about a week or two later.

That tank was set up in September. Now I have the original small tank from my parent's place, a 10 gallon, a 25, a 45, and a 60. I think I'm coming across another 45 in the next week, and may be picking up a 125 on Monday. My name is Luke and I have a problem...

Luke

[Lonewolfblue]

Obsession with eels, sharks, loaches, etc.