Hey guys, my intro ^_^
I think i was around 8-9 when my parents first got a fish tank after months of me nagging them haha, it was 4x2x2ft and sat on a cabinet in my bedroom as i was on the ground floor and my room was quietest
It kept 2 clown loach, a large amount of different tetra, a few cories and some mollies i believe
We then bought a 30 litre for in the kitchen for all the baby mollies until they got to a decent size which soon after we sold the large tank and all the fish and equipment as a bulk buy to a lad down the road from us.
4 years later and i decided after moving back upstairs i wanted to try again, i went and got about 10 minnows from the streams on the moors nearby which did really well in my 30litre on my bedside cabinet, i filled it up with water from the stream took some plants, snails and water woodlice back with me and fed them on mosquito larvae which they absolutely loved, when they were massive and had been breeding i released them back into the stream ^_^ and wanted to try tropical fish
(i went a bit crazy)
i went to a friend who gave me five LARGE fish tanks with heaters and filters for free because he is awesome and has about 50 of them in his garage.
This is where things got fun, the room i used to be in i kitted up as a fish room to which my parents strangely had no issue with
all fish 200 litre tanks set up on large solid wood cabinets. (empty of fish at this point)
They all had two inches of a fertilizer substrate which i bought in bulk online, massive pieces of drift wood as center pieces
i bought 1000 live plants on ebay in bulk, set all the plants up and let the tanks rest with everything set up (i like it to look natural)
i was breeding neon tetra in one of the smaller 60 litres i then borrowed off of someone, marbles and leaf litter in the bottom, lots of floating plants and a ridiculously small amount of light, produced over 300 babies with 10 adults
I now only have 2 220 litre corner tanks with mainly live bearers, tetra, 3 pleco and a few other random fish, along with about 100 cherry shrimp lol and then there is my new neon breeding tank with 4 adults (2 male, 2 female) and my 45litre upstairs with endler guppies in which we sell on