What first sparked your interest?

[Rlavassor86]

So I'm just curious what got everybody into this addiction. Mine started the first time I went to the shed aquarium in Chicago. Seeing all the different colors and personalities, I was mesmerized. That was when I was about 11 and a year later started with my first aquarium. It was a 55 gal that housed 3 red belly piranha that eventually moved into a 125. I raised them from the size of a quarter and when the last guy passed he was pushing 12 inches. Now I keep African cichlids in that tank and have a 72 gal planted community. My addiction is spiraling out of control now, as I've got a 65 waiting to be set up as brackish and I've got my eye on a 110 tall I'd like to have discus in. So that's how my addiction started, I'd love to read everybody else's story.

 

[bud29]

My parents got me a little 5 gallon tank and some fish for my 6th birthday.......things escalated from there

 

[Rlavassor86]

My parents got me a little 5 gallon tank and some fish for my 6th birthday.......things escalated from there

What did you have as your first fish?

 

[bkiggy]

I have catfish. USD and Corys. Had a pictus but got rehomed

 

[Koikeeper99]

Won a goldfish at the fair and was determined to keep it alive.

 

[Alyxx]

My dad had a 75 gallon amazon biotope tank when I was really little and I always loved watching the fish and helping him clean it. Then I got a betta, and when it died I was rally sad and my aunt who was visiting at the time felt bad for me and took me to get "a new fish." We came home with a 10 gallon tank... My mother wasn't happy, but she couldn't tell her favorite sister-in-law no. And the obsession just spread from there.