Hello
Posted: 18 Feb 2021, 03:15
I want to confess that I've been a lurker for a couple of decades. I also confess I didn't have a tank either for those decades.
I grew up looking at my aunts tank (she lived 100 ft away so I seen it often) a 10 gallon Metaframe in her dining room. Under gravel filter, ugly paper backing of some stupid scene, a deep sea diver with his/her (ahem) airline, and a very not natural color gravel. When I got into my teens and had a part-time job I bought a 15g, SS hood with light, and a black iron stand. My Mom let me put it in our front room and it was way better than my Aunt's. A modern frameless aquarium (had the plastic frames on the top and bottom ???) Hagen HOB filter, natural colored gravel, nice plastic plants but the same illogical selection of livestock except for a few that I admire still today: Robertsi Tetra and Rabauti Cory. My school friend was attracted to those as well, and he should know as his older brother was breeding Angels in the same upstairs style bedroom I was soon to inherit. I had Platy's, Gourami's, Silver Dollars, Tin Foil Barbs, Various Tetras, those flying ones that I cannot recall the name of right now, and of course Cory's.
When my Grandparents died I eventually moved upstairs into their old room, it was more like a finished attic than an extra bedroom - a bungalow style house that I painted, carpeted and I still had room for a desk as I entered a local college plus room for another tank. Sooooo....., I move my 15'er from the front room into my new digs upstairs and bought a 10'er to fit on the bottom shelf. Ok, platy's on the bottom and my illogical selection up top. I was really high tech too, the Platy tank I kept at 80 degrees F.
And then . . . . I got MARRIED.
Alrighty now, 35 years later I'm retired, my daughter got married, moved out and now I have room for a TANK. The new tank log I will post elsewhere but I haven't really been away for 35 years, I've been looking over your shoulders with lust. I've been reading, and reading, and reading. Magazine subscriptions, books - saltwater, fresh, planted, vivarium's with dartfrogs. 100's and 100's of $ in reading material.
So, I guess I'm what you would call an experienced novice.
I'm Bob.
Oh! My Mom always used to ask me a question. As a pay it forward to the winner (yet to be determined prize) 'What was that question'. You have the hints!!!
I grew up looking at my aunts tank (she lived 100 ft away so I seen it often) a 10 gallon Metaframe in her dining room. Under gravel filter, ugly paper backing of some stupid scene, a deep sea diver with his/her (ahem) airline, and a very not natural color gravel. When I got into my teens and had a part-time job I bought a 15g, SS hood with light, and a black iron stand. My Mom let me put it in our front room and it was way better than my Aunt's. A modern frameless aquarium (had the plastic frames on the top and bottom ???) Hagen HOB filter, natural colored gravel, nice plastic plants but the same illogical selection of livestock except for a few that I admire still today: Robertsi Tetra and Rabauti Cory. My school friend was attracted to those as well, and he should know as his older brother was breeding Angels in the same upstairs style bedroom I was soon to inherit. I had Platy's, Gourami's, Silver Dollars, Tin Foil Barbs, Various Tetras, those flying ones that I cannot recall the name of right now, and of course Cory's.
When my Grandparents died I eventually moved upstairs into their old room, it was more like a finished attic than an extra bedroom - a bungalow style house that I painted, carpeted and I still had room for a desk as I entered a local college plus room for another tank. Sooooo....., I move my 15'er from the front room into my new digs upstairs and bought a 10'er to fit on the bottom shelf. Ok, platy's on the bottom and my illogical selection up top. I was really high tech too, the Platy tank I kept at 80 degrees F.
And then . . . . I got MARRIED.
Alrighty now, 35 years later I'm retired, my daughter got married, moved out and now I have room for a TANK. The new tank log I will post elsewhere but I haven't really been away for 35 years, I've been looking over your shoulders with lust. I've been reading, and reading, and reading. Magazine subscriptions, books - saltwater, fresh, planted, vivarium's with dartfrogs. 100's and 100's of $ in reading material.
So, I guess I'm what you would call an experienced novice.
I'm Bob.
Oh! My Mom always used to ask me a question. As a pay it forward to the winner (yet to be determined prize) 'What was that question'. You have the hints!!!
As above, look forward to hearing, seeing and if we can, helping your next fishkeeping moves.
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