How long have you been in this hobby?

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Lemme think...a yeear with my current tank, and like 2-3 years before of keeping 2 danios in a 1 liter tank

[Basilisk]

Fish since I was 7. From there I was on and off for 12 years. Since I was 14 I started keeping plants with poor results, elodeas, vals, cheap ludwigias and hornwort.

When I was 19 and had more money I decided to get a more serious tank, 45 gallons, and I wanted very serious biological filtration, and through searches, I discovered there were such things as planted tanks. Been keeping them the last 4-5 years: some wrecks, some moving, some experimental setups, some nanos lastly. Almost no fish now.

Think of all the money we've spent...

[lauraleellbp]

Been keeping fish for more than 25 years, planted tanks for about 5 years, and playing with "aquascaping" for one year.

[fishscale]

Originally Posted by Basilisk

Think of all the money we've spent...

Stop right there. Shhhhh...no need to do such a thing.

[doodle1800]

Since 1970

[agustine]

Been raising flowerhorn back in the philippines but when we moved here in Texas last june i cant find a good one and i thought of planted tank, got addicted already and i'm thankful for this site, lots of informations and knowledge that saves me a lot of money

[RandomKayos]

I got my first tank for my 7th birthday. Went back to the local pond and got sand and plants and fish and crays and anything else that looked alive. Kept that going for almost 6 years. That was when I got my first tropical tank and I've had a mix of local and tropical ever since. I just committed to my 21st tank which I will pick up in 2 weeks.
I turned 7 just shy of 41 years ago.

[Down_Shift]

2 months! I don't even know what plants are in my tank =)

[demosthenes]

almost a year, but im kind of an easily obsessed person, so ALL of my earnings in that year have gone into my tanks.

haha, its an art. most definitely an art. (my parents could probably argue that point though.... :P)

[susankat]

25 + years, planted off and on during that time. Still learning and always learning something new everyday when it comes to planted tanks.

Things have changed that much!

[AquaVu]

I've loved fishes and plants since I was around 7. That was ages ago.

[zzyzx85]

one year almost to the day with planted tanks. But I've kept fish for a long time before with a 5+ year break until last year.

[EdTheEdge]

Oh geeez.... I never thought of myself as an old fart.... 45years. One of my first Metaframe 10 gallons had Anachris in it. When I was six I was given a whole line of those Metaframe tanks - a 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and eventually saved up my allowance for a 20.

I loved those tanks..............

[jinx©]

Originally Posted by EdTheEdge

Oh geeez.... I never thought of myself as an old fart.... 45years. One of my first Metaframe 10 gallons had Anachris in it. When I was six I was given a whole line of those Metaframe tanks - a 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and eventually saved up my allowance for a 20.

I loved those tanks..............

lol...Yep, cool tanks and cool memories. I remember having a 5g as a kid that had one big rock in it from a local stream that was covered with ungodly long hair algae that I thought was just the coolest thing.

[essabee]

I had been taking interest in my mother's aquarium since I was seven, had my first aquarium when I was 10, since then I always had at least one aquarium, planted, my style.

I hope to own 50 aquariums by 2010, I will be 60 years old then.