My Fish Babies.
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hello fellow fish lovers,
Well I found this forum accidentally last night mainly because my cable was out and I decided to do a bit of fish research on line. What a great place this is to hang out and so full of information.
My name is Joe. I am 42 and live in Indianapolis Indiana. Lets see......My fish story started out about 5 years ago. I was in pet smart buying dog food and I wandered into the fish section (knowing in the back of my mind I was wanting to eventually adopt gold fish) I kinda was naive and like many of us do at first took the advice of my sales person as the word of GOD. I went home with a 15 gallon Biorb tank and two Black Moors. These tanks are really cool for those who may not know about them. Very pretty and decorative. Needless to say within a two year period my two Fancy Gold fish out grew their little biorb. As I did more research I realized what a horrible mistake I had made putting two Moors in a 15 gallon tank. (Now they were small at first so it seemed like a good idea at the time). A birthday rolled around for me and as a Happy Birthday to me present I upgraded to a 29 gallon. Again from pet smart (which is really my go to pet store for every thing?) Its what I could afford and would fit. I became fish euphoric and upon better judgement added another goldfish a telescope this time and a pleco about six months later. Man do these little guys grow.....and grow.......and grow........NOW I am in the market and have a potential 60 gallon in the works fingers crossed. I am pretty sure I will be maxed out at 60 but those were my thought with the original 15 gallon as well. I am very diligent with my tank changing water 20 to 40 percent every monday. I am a test strip guy (I know I kept reading how bad they are last night on here). My pockets are small but my heart is big for all creatures. I hope the bigger tank comes through for me. I don't plan on adding any more fish just want to give the ones I have the best quality of life they can have. BTW I didn't go with gold fish because they are easy! (they are so not easy to keep) They remind me of my Grandparents. I remember them having two 30 gallon tanks overstocked and looked like swamps. Every time we would win a fish at a fair or carnival Grandpa would add them to his tank. In fact he never had anything but feeder fish in his tanks maybe TMI. But I think subconsciously this is where my aquatic love comes from. Wow I have rambled and digressed here. Thanks for having me. I will be lurking in the shadows on a reg basis.
Well I found this forum accidentally last night mainly because my cable was out and I decided to do a bit of fish research on line. What a great place this is to hang out and so full of information.
My name is Joe. I am 42 and live in Indianapolis Indiana. Lets see......My fish story started out about 5 years ago. I was in pet smart buying dog food and I wandered into the fish section (knowing in the back of my mind I was wanting to eventually adopt gold fish) I kinda was naive and like many of us do at first took the advice of my sales person as the word of GOD. I went home with a 15 gallon Biorb tank and two Black Moors. These tanks are really cool for those who may not know about them. Very pretty and decorative. Needless to say within a two year period my two Fancy Gold fish out grew their little biorb. As I did more research I realized what a horrible mistake I had made putting two Moors in a 15 gallon tank. (Now they were small at first so it seemed like a good idea at the time). A birthday rolled around for me and as a Happy Birthday to me present I upgraded to a 29 gallon. Again from pet smart (which is really my go to pet store for every thing?) Its what I could afford and would fit. I became fish euphoric and upon better judgement added another goldfish a telescope this time and a pleco about six months later. Man do these little guys grow.....and grow.......and grow........NOW I am in the market and have a potential 60 gallon in the works fingers crossed. I am pretty sure I will be maxed out at 60 but those were my thought with the original 15 gallon as well. I am very diligent with my tank changing water 20 to 40 percent every monday. I am a test strip guy (I know I kept reading how bad they are last night on here). My pockets are small but my heart is big for all creatures. I hope the bigger tank comes through for me. I don't plan on adding any more fish just want to give the ones I have the best quality of life they can have. BTW I didn't go with gold fish because they are easy! (they are so not easy to keep) They remind me of my Grandparents. I remember them having two 30 gallon tanks overstocked and looked like swamps. Every time we would win a fish at a fair or carnival Grandpa would add them to his tank. In fact he never had anything but feeder fish in his tanks maybe TMI. But I think subconsciously this is where my aquatic love comes from. Wow I have rambled and digressed here. Thanks for having me. I will be lurking in the shadows on a reg basis.
