molliwopp
Aquarium Advice Addict
Typical kid who didn't know anything. Set up a 10g as a 10 year old, stocked it with 15-20 fish same day. Lost a bunch, just replaced those. Only added water to replace what had evaporated. When it couldn't stand not being able to see my fish through the algae, I would take it apart, boil & bleach the gravel and decor clean and put a new filter cartridge in. The fish that somehow survived the last tank quickly died, were replaced, and the story started over again. Took a few years off, then got back into it. Same thing all over. Took another few years off, then was going to rebuild my 10g in our new place and my brother offered me his 55g. Started off exactly the same way....
After about 2 weeks, a couple neon deaths, and algae starting to show up, I decided to look into what I needed to do since I wasn't going clean the 55 like I did the 10 every few months.
Thank God I found this site!!!!!!!
That sounds like an absolute nightmare that probably still haunts you to this day at times, i feel for you.
I think ive been fortunate as i only became interested in fish keeping when i was around 20 and was mature enough to look into it before and care alittle more about the fish i wanted to keep.
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