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I've had tanks all my life, and just sort of taught myself how to do things I guess, so I have long done what sometimes seems unorthodox to those that learned from books or others.
I also have a tendency to collect aquariums and usually wind up having around a dozen tanks in various sizes at the least ... I jokingly call it my sickness, but it's one that I do not mind having.
I seem to have a good touch with my tanks ... I often breed species that I'm told can't be breed or bred easily and once they start - they really seem to take off, to the point that I usually can't keep up with them! lol
I am attracted to the more unusual species I guess, and have long gotten past my aggressive monster sized critter phase and tend to prefer calmer more community and smaller sized things.
I sort of fell out of my tanks after doing a forced move, and suffering 3 tanks breaking at 3 am that were my main fish holders and the fish not surviving in buckets until the morning when I could get into storage to get more tanks. That was almost 5 years ago, and since then I haven't had any tanks at home ... which is the longest I've not had tanks in my home since I was like seriously around 3 years old.
Long story sorta short, I rent and I've had three houses that I have rented in the past 5 years get foreclosed (guess the landlords weren't paying the mortgages with the rent I was paying every month) so have been reluctant to set up tanks again because I loathe moving them and the last move devastated me as I was seriously attached to those fish as I'd bred every one of them and they were great fish.
The only tank that was left was the one in my office, which suffered when the power once went out over the weekend, leaving my once lively tank down to 2 corys and 3 kuhlie loaches. Just so much loss that it drained me out of3wanting to deal with tanks and then with all the moving from city to city, that left my funds low, which is never a great thing with this hobby, lol! The corys died recently (I bought them like 8 years ago as adults, so not too surprising I guess), and so the tank just has seemed very forlorn and quite empty.
Anyways, I just got up my gumption to fix it up again as I realized how much I miss my tanks! Bought two fishes just to have *something* swimming in it ... and well, that's all it took I guess! Now I want to fix it up again and I realized that hey! I bet there are forums and sites and groups of folks like me out there (it didn't occur to me to look for that sort of thing online back when I was really active with my fish 5 years ago!) ... and so did a Google search and then found you guys!
I've always kept a natural and planted tank because that's just the kind of tank that has always appealed to me, but I've pretty much just being doing it by trial and error all these years lol, and never really considered how much more I might be able to learn or what new ideas or techniques might be out there until today!
So from what I can tell, I'm low low low lowwwww tech (LOL) and I know I'm not doing stuff by the rules, because I don't think I've ever really needed the rules to have my tanks and animals flourish and I have tended to have a very Darwinian approach to things. But hoiping to learn new things and maybe open my mind and start being a little more proactive in my learning than I have in the past!
I also have a tendency to collect aquariums and usually wind up having around a dozen tanks in various sizes at the least ... I jokingly call it my sickness, but it's one that I do not mind having.
I seem to have a good touch with my tanks ... I often breed species that I'm told can't be breed or bred easily and once they start - they really seem to take off, to the point that I usually can't keep up with them! lol
I am attracted to the more unusual species I guess, and have long gotten past my aggressive monster sized critter phase and tend to prefer calmer more community and smaller sized things.
I sort of fell out of my tanks after doing a forced move, and suffering 3 tanks breaking at 3 am that were my main fish holders and the fish not surviving in buckets until the morning when I could get into storage to get more tanks. That was almost 5 years ago, and since then I haven't had any tanks at home ... which is the longest I've not had tanks in my home since I was like seriously around 3 years old.
Long story sorta short, I rent and I've had three houses that I have rented in the past 5 years get foreclosed (guess the landlords weren't paying the mortgages with the rent I was paying every month) so have been reluctant to set up tanks again because I loathe moving them and the last move devastated me as I was seriously attached to those fish as I'd bred every one of them and they were great fish.
The only tank that was left was the one in my office, which suffered when the power once went out over the weekend, leaving my once lively tank down to 2 corys and 3 kuhlie loaches. Just so much loss that it drained me out of3wanting to deal with tanks and then with all the moving from city to city, that left my funds low, which is never a great thing with this hobby, lol! The corys died recently (I bought them like 8 years ago as adults, so not too surprising I guess), and so the tank just has seemed very forlorn and quite empty.
Anyways, I just got up my gumption to fix it up again as I realized how much I miss my tanks! Bought two fishes just to have *something* swimming in it ... and well, that's all it took I guess! Now I want to fix it up again and I realized that hey! I bet there are forums and sites and groups of folks like me out there (it didn't occur to me to look for that sort of thing online back when I was really active with my fish 5 years ago!) ... and so did a Google search and then found you guys!
I've always kept a natural and planted tank because that's just the kind of tank that has always appealed to me, but I've pretty much just being doing it by trial and error all these years lol, and never really considered how much more I might be able to learn or what new ideas or techniques might be out there until today!
So from what I can tell, I'm low low low lowwwww tech (LOL) and I know I'm not doing stuff by the rules, because I don't think I've ever really needed the rules to have my tanks and animals flourish and I have tended to have a very Darwinian approach to things. But hoiping to learn new things and maybe open my mind and start being a little more proactive in my learning than I have in the past!
