JadeGreen
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Greetings, everyone!
My name is Heather. I currently live in Southern California, though since my husband is in the Navy I have lived many places. I also work for PetSmart, and I realize that some of you may not like PetSmart employees. I do try to provide the best information that I can to my customers, which is one of the reasons why I am on here.
As far as my fish keeping experience goes. My mom got me into aquariums at a very young age. My first tank was a 20G that she let me put a goldfish in when I was 6. If my memory serves me right, it was a Calico Ryukin. Poor thing ended up dying because my mom forgot to tell me the first rule of aquarium maintenance.... Never use soap to clean aquarium decor. Luckily, the aquarium was able to be used in the future, since there wasn't too much soap residue on the decorations when they were put back in. We just had to clean in a lot.
Fast forward to when I was an early teenager, I had a friend get me into betta breeding. That was definitely my favorite fish keeping venture. I'd sell the babies at a local fish store. Unfortunately, once I was old enough to have a job, it took away the free time I needed to keep up on cleaning the tanks for all of my bettas, so that had to end.
Few years ago, my then fiancé had just gone into the Navy and I was still at my mom's house. I helped her set up and maintain her pond and I also set up a 55G Saltwater tank as well as two 20G and also a 10G tank that I kept some Black Convict Cichlid fry that I brought home from work.
All of those had to be left behind once I was able to live with my husband. I went without any aquariums (besides 3.5G betta tanks). Now we're going to be stationed her for a while, and my good friend gave me his 65 G tank, which I am currently cycling. I posted about my proposed setup for that in the Freshwater/brakish water general forum if you want to check that out.
My name is Heather. I currently live in Southern California, though since my husband is in the Navy I have lived many places. I also work for PetSmart, and I realize that some of you may not like PetSmart employees. I do try to provide the best information that I can to my customers, which is one of the reasons why I am on here.
As far as my fish keeping experience goes. My mom got me into aquariums at a very young age. My first tank was a 20G that she let me put a goldfish in when I was 6. If my memory serves me right, it was a Calico Ryukin. Poor thing ended up dying because my mom forgot to tell me the first rule of aquarium maintenance.... Never use soap to clean aquarium decor. Luckily, the aquarium was able to be used in the future, since there wasn't too much soap residue on the decorations when they were put back in. We just had to clean in a lot.
Fast forward to when I was an early teenager, I had a friend get me into betta breeding. That was definitely my favorite fish keeping venture. I'd sell the babies at a local fish store. Unfortunately, once I was old enough to have a job, it took away the free time I needed to keep up on cleaning the tanks for all of my bettas, so that had to end.
Few years ago, my then fiancé had just gone into the Navy and I was still at my mom's house. I helped her set up and maintain her pond and I also set up a 55G Saltwater tank as well as two 20G and also a 10G tank that I kept some Black Convict Cichlid fry that I brought home from work.
All of those had to be left behind once I was able to live with my husband. I went without any aquariums (besides 3.5G betta tanks). Now we're going to be stationed her for a while, and my good friend gave me his 65 G tank, which I am currently cycling. I posted about my proposed setup for that in the Freshwater/brakish water general forum if you want to check that out.
