Hey all, my name's Kasper, I'm 28, and recently got into fishkeeping. We have a couple aquariums at my workplace and it's made me really want to get my own, so I started getting all the necessary equipment back in November, I think, of last year and I'm really close to being able to get a fish!
The plan from the start has been to get one male betta in my 10 gallon tank and if it turns into "multi-tank syndrome" so be it!
For a little tragic backstory: In high school a friend and I decided to get a fish together. We busted out an old tank from storage, filled it up from the tap, bought a fish from Wal-Mart and plopped him in. A week later the poor little guy was dead, and he spent his last week curled up in a bottom corner of the tank. Being uneducated teens, we blamed the store.
Now that I've been reading about how to properly care for fish I realize the horrible mistake we made back then and I will never not feel guilty about it for the rest of my life, so I've been working really hard to make sure I know as much as I can before I risk another fish's life and that this tank is absolutely ready to go.
I have a million and one questions and going down the google rabbit hole is just adding more, so here I am, nice to meet ya
The plan from the start has been to get one male betta in my 10 gallon tank and if it turns into "multi-tank syndrome" so be it!
For a little tragic backstory: In high school a friend and I decided to get a fish together. We busted out an old tank from storage, filled it up from the tap, bought a fish from Wal-Mart and plopped him in. A week later the poor little guy was dead, and he spent his last week curled up in a bottom corner of the tank. Being uneducated teens, we blamed the store.
Now that I've been reading about how to properly care for fish I realize the horrible mistake we made back then and I will never not feel guilty about it for the rest of my life, so I've been working really hard to make sure I know as much as I can before I risk another fish's life and that this tank is absolutely ready to go.
I have a million and one questions and going down the google rabbit hole is just adding more, so here I am, nice to meet ya