Anyone have a fish hobby?

[crazyquilter]

When I was 25 I got a job in a fish aquarium store. I had no idea that there was so much to learn, but the family who owed the store were wonderful people. They let me use their books to learn about all the different kinds of aquarium fish. From freshwater to saltwater I had to learn how to id each fish,food, temp, and what fish can be tank mates. Customers would bring in their smaller tanks and want to buy a bigger tank. I quickly learned that this is a very addicting hobby. I started with a 20 gallon tank in my living room with angle fish and guppies, then I feel in love with saltwater clown fish. So I set up a used 29 gallon salt water tank with 2 clown fish. Over the years I built up a nice collection of books on fish, but lost most of them when our basement flooded.

Please share with us a picture of your tank or tell us what you like about having a fish tank hobby.

[Deleted]

Malawian Cichlids, nice. I will post something tomorow, I'm at work all the night.

[Admin Bear]

yes we do! we currently have a 40 breeder live bearer tank and we are starting to focus our energies on breeding guppies. we also have a rack of 4 - 2.5 gallon birthing/grow out tanks..

[cbavier]

I like to catch and Eat them. Particularly Lake Perch and Blue Gills.

[samb]

Apr 13, 2015 6:47:38 GMT -5 Admin Bear said:

yes we do! we currently have a 40 breeder live bearer tank and we are starting to focus our energies on breeding guppies. we also have a rack of 4 - 2.5 gallon birthing/grow out tanks..

    

[samb]

When I first saw the title of this thread, I was thinking about my fish hobby of taking the kayak to the river and fishing for bluegill, bass, and catfish.

I did have a small saltwater tank with 2 clown fish that lived for about 15 yrs.... We were the 3rd owners of the tank and fish.

[crazyquilter]

Be sure and keep cbavier, away from your fish tanks

[kacyds]

I like to fish....

[kacyds]

Use to have a 10 gallon freshwater tank as a kid. About 10 years ago, my wife thought it would be a great idea for the kids, they were much smaller then, to have a 5 gallon tank. That was a disaster. I truly believe the smaller the tank the harder it is to maintain.

Anyways, my kids would constantly feed the fish. Trying to control the algae and cleaning the filters were a nightmare for me. Glad when the last fish died, because the tank went into the garbage then.

Now I enjoy Fried Fish......

[MikeC99]

We used to have gold fish and guppies many years ago but now I fish for perch, trout and walleye.
Mike

[cbavier]

Sorry Lorna it looks like I have started something you never intended to see in this thread.

Chuck

[crazyquilter]

Apr 15, 2015 10:51:14 GMT -5 cbavier said:

Sorry Lorna it looks like I have started something you never intended to see in this thread.

Chuck

See what you started Chuck 1774739874   That means you get a 10 minute TIME-OUT

This is about nice fish that you keep in a tank NOT eat like in the movie " A fish named Wanda"